FBI reportedly finds additional 2,400 'lost' JFK assassination files as part of Trump declassification push
Shortly after President Donald Trump took office, he ordered the complete declassification and release of all remaining files related to the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.
Following an initial records search stemming from that order, the FBI now claims to have found approximately an additional 2,400 JFK-related files that had previously been "lost," according to Sky News.
Those files have now reportedly been turned over by the FBI to the National Archives and Records Administration to join thousands of other files for "inclusion in the ongoing declassification process."
JFK files turned over for declassification and public release
Amid President Trump's flurry of first-week executive actions was an order that pertained to the declassification of records related to the assassination of JFK, among other closely-held government secrets, which was something that he unsuccessfully tried to do during his first term in the White House.
According to Axios, the FBI initially turned over around 14,000 JFK-related files to NARA in response to Trump's order, but only just recently discovered another roughly 2,400 related files that have also now been submitted to the declassification process.
Per Trump's order, all relevant files should have been turned over by last Friday, at which point the director of national intelligence was supposed to submit to him a plan for how those declassified files would be publicly released.
And though anything is possible, the outlet cited experts who downplayed the potential for those soon-to-be-released files including any sort of bombshell information that might support any of the various conspiracy theories surrounding JFK's untimely death, such as that there were multiple shooters or that the CIA and Italian-American mafia were involved in a plot to kill the president.
New Task Force formed to declassify federal secrets
In related news, Fox News reported that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) recently designated Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) as the chair of a newly created subcommittee known as the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.
It is anticipated that the new Task Force will probe and push for the declassification of pertinent records related to not only the JFK assassination but also controversial government-held secrets about matters like the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the origin of Covid-19, and UFOs, among other things.
Luna, who told Fox News that the U.S. government "has been hiding information from Americans for decades," said, "We have spent years seeking information on the assassinations of President Kennedy, Senator Kennedy, Reverend King, and other government secrets without success."
"It is time to give Americans the answers they deserve, which is why I am honored to lead this bipartisan task force that seeks truth and transparency," she continued, and added, "We will work alongside President Trump and his Cabinet members to deliver truth to the American people. From this moment forward, we will restore trust through transparency."
Rep. Luna believes "there were two shooters"
Interestingly enough, while the Axios report suggested the JFK files likely wouldn't help bolster or confirm conspiracy theories like there being a second shooter in addition to Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged lone gunman, Rep. Luna seems to believe the opposite, according to the New York Post.
"Based on what I’ve been seeing so far, the initial hearing that was actually held here in Congress was actually faulty in the single-bullet theory," the congresswoman said during a Tuesday press conference. "I believe that there were two shooters."
She noted "conflicting evidence" and "anomalies" from various reports about the assassination, and said, "All of those, though, seem to have been rinsed and repeated in the media to push a certain narrative that we don’t agree with," though she added that her Task Force aimed to "put to bed some of the theories that have been out there" and reveal the "full truth" of what happened, which "starts with transparency."