“The most transparent president in history is back,” a Jan. 20 post on X from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt read.
Never was that more clear than on Jan. 23, when President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that the “continued redaction and withholding of information from records pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not consistent with the public interest, and the release of these records is long overdue.”
Trump is now a singular public figure in the push for complete government transparency on the assassination, and his executive order is nothing short of historic; however, the devil is in the details.
The Jan. 23 executive order directs government officials—specifically, the director of national intelligence and the attorney general, in coordination with the national security adviser and the president’s…
