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Will the Declassification and Transparency Task Force bring us the truth?

February 19, 2025

If you had to think of two words in the English language to represent the concept of inertia, a complete lack of forward progress, it would be these: task force.

If you had to get it down to one word, it could be this: Congress.

So the announcement this week that there is now a congressional Task Force on the Declassification and Transparency of Federal Secrets sounds more interesting than it’s likely to be.

But there’s a first time for everything, so let’s play along. What’s this about?

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has formed a new Declassification and Transparency Task Force to find and release government documents on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as documents on the 9/11 attacks, the origins of the COVID-19 virus, the Jeffrey Epstein client list, and the phenomena generally known as UFOs.

In the past you would have to sit through nine or ten movies to get this kind of information, but now we’ll be able to see all of it on CSPAN. The first hearing of the task force is planned for sometime in March.

House Oversight committee chairman James Comer appointed Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna to chair the task force. He said she is “committed to shining a light on the truth and ending the era of secrecy.”

Luna said her goal is to restore trust through transparency. “The federal government has been hiding information from Americans for decades,” she 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.”

It will be interesting to see what comes out of this. Will we hear shocking revelations of information so outrageously damaging that people were killed over it? Are the members of this panel going to need bulletproof vests?

So far, the Kevlar Caucus includes Republicans Nancy Mace of South Carolina, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Eric Burlison of Missouri, Eli Crane of Arizona and Brandon Gill of Texas.

Good luck, everybody!

This will be a bipartisan task force, but the Democratic members have not yet been announced. Probably still being fitted for the Kevlar vests.

Comer and Luna have already sent letters to high-ranking government officials asking for briefings about the existence of documents, classified or unclassified, under their control.

Attorney General Pam Bondi was asked what documents she has “regarding the investigation into and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein.”

CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were asked what documents they have “regarding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States and Operation Neptune Spear,” the military operation that led to the killing of Osama bin-Laden.

Ratcliffe, Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were asked for a briefing on documents under their control regarding “the existence of unidentified anomalous phenomena,” a category that includes unidentified flying objects and submerged objects that have been observed in the oceans.

Ratcliffe and the Director of the National Security Agency, Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, were asked about documents on the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK.

Rubio, Ratcliffe and Energy Secretary Chris Wright were asked for a briefing on any documents in their departments related to the origins of COVID-19.

“After the briefing,” all eleven letters stated, “the Committee and Task Force shall seek to review these documents and make recommendations on declassification to ensure all applicable orders and laws are being implemented and deliver transparency to the American people.”

This might all be nothing, but it sounds like it could be something.

There is a quality to the second Trump administration that is reminiscent of the opening of the Soviet archives in the early 1990s after the fall of the USSR. The president has unleashed the DOGE team to tear through the electronic records of unimaginable waste and fraud that have gone on for decades. Who knows what information has been protected all these years by entrenched bureaucrats, excessive secrecy and the occasional assassination.

The president has the authority to declassify anything. He could make history.

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