Ben Shapiro recently asked, “Does it really matter who shot John F. Kennedy?” My answer is “yes and no.” If the question concerns whether finding out who shot Kennedy is the most pressing issue facing our country, I concur with Shapiro that the answer is clearly “no.”
But the release of 80,000 previously unseen documents isn’t just about who killed JFK. It’s about a long-standing pattern of deception, manipulation, and lawlessness from the highest levels of government — and that is one of the most pressing issues facing our country today.
The moment we stop asking questions is the moment when bad actors within our institutions know they can get away with corruption.
For over 60 years, the official narrative surrounding Kennedy’s assassination has been that Lee Harvey Oswald pulled off a near-impossible series of shots. The improbability of his success is heightened by puzzling facts, such as KGB reports that Oswald was a horrible marksman coupled with his subpar rifle.
This is the story we’ve been told to accept without question. But what we now know raises deeply troubling questions about what really happened and, more importantly, why the government is so determined to keep the whole truth from us.
The recent document release didn’t give us a smoking gun, but it did confirm a pattern of CIA malfeasance that should alarm every American.
We now have solid evidence that the CIA was running illegal domestic espionage operations — including spying on Barry Goldwater, the Republican presidential nominee in 1964. If the intelligence agencies were willing to illegally surveil a major political figure back then, what do you think they’re capable of now?
The unchecked power of our intelligence agencies did not begin or end with the Kennedy assassination — it is a systemic issue that continues to this day.
For decades, the intelligence community has fought transparency at every turn. Each time a president promises to release the complete JFK files, the CIA steps in to block key documents.
The most recent example came under President Biden, when CIA Director William Burns personally urged the White House to keep certain records classified. Burns, notably, was one of several government officials who met with Jeffrey Epstein — three times.
The same agency now citing “national security” concerns over files from the 1960s is the same one tied to Epstein. That connection alone should raise serious questions for every American.
This pattern of deception extends far beyond the Kennedy assassination.
We’ve seen it in Benghazi, where Americans died, and the truth was buried under bureaucratic stonewalling. We saw it in the aftermath of 9/11, when former FBI agents alleged that the CIA was running an illegal domestic spy ring and even attempted to recruit two of the hijackers before the attack. And we’ve seen it in the blatant weaponization of intelligence agencies against political opponents — from the Russia collusion hoax to the unprecedented persecution of a sitting and former president.
In recent memory, critical evidence regarding the truth of what happened on January 6 — including text messages from Kamala Harris’ Secret Service detail — mysteriously disappeared. Or COVID-19, where intelligence agencies, including Britain’s MI6, have now admitted it was "beyond reasonable doubt" that the virus was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. And yet for years, anyone who dared suggest such a possibility was smeared as a conspiracy theorist.
Asking questions — whether it be about JFK’s assassination, Benghazi, COVID-19, or any other “conspiracy theory” — is critical. The moment we stop is the moment when bad actors within our institutions know they can get away with corruption. Rebuilding trust in our institutions begins with asking the right questions and identifying the infection to provide the proper remedy.
The intelligence community has operated with impunity for decades because we, the American people, have been conditioned to accept its narratives without question. The JFK files are not just about a 62-year-old assassination; they are a case study in how deep-state corruption endures and evolves.
If the CIA had nothing to hide, why is the agency still hiding it?
We need to rebuild trust in our institutions — not through blind faith but through real accountability.
America’s founders didn’t place their trust in government officials. They trusted the system of checks and balances designed to limit power. Those safeguards have eroded, but they can be restored.
We don’t need to believe in bureaucrats. We need a system that exposes the truth, prosecutes wrongdoing, and applies justice equally. Until that happens, public distrust will grow — and for good reason.
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Kash Patel is officially the director of the FBI, and last week Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed that the Epstein documents were sitting on her desk awaiting review. So where are they?
Why hasn’t the Epstein list been released as promised?
According to FBI whistleblower Garret O’Boyle, the FBI is rushing to destroy evidence before Kash Patel and newly appointed Deputy Director Dan Bongino can investigate.
“People inside the FBI have been working night and day to destroy files on these servers, and I was told that once these files are destroyed, the way they are set up that even Elon Musk could not restore them,” O’Boyle told Benny Johnson on “The Benny Johnson Show.”
Does this have anything to do with the delay in the release of Epstein’s list?
“Blaze News Tonight” host Jill Savage and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson dive into the scandal.
“I question the timing of this story,” says Peterson. “These people have known that they were going to have to delete files for a while, right? So I'm 100% sure that there has been deletion going on for some time.”
At this point, there’s only one thing that can be done, he says: “Get in there as fast as possible” and “go after those people [who deleted files] and punish them.”
Peterson has faith that the new powers at the FBI will do what’s right — “Is Dan Bongino not going to try to find those people and punish them? Of course he is. Is Kash Patel going to hold back and hesitate to pull the trigger? No, of course not,” he says.
Jill then brings up Bondi’s sudden silence on the matter. Last weekend, she teased the release by claiming that the documents were sitting on her desk.
“I'm sure that there's a lot of legal things under the surface that you and I don't necessarily know about, but at some point, they need to make good on these promises,” she says.
“Documents like this probably have all kinds of private information; it gets complicated very quickly; then there's laws about these things ... but of course, in this case, we've had this information [held in secret] for a while,” adds Peterson.
“Everyone in the world wants it,” and if the “information doesn't start coming out in a relatively short period of time,” the MAGA base “is going to be extremely angry.”
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Americans are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting for President Trump’s executive order declassifying the JFK, RFK, and MLK files to come full circle. After decades of secrets, the truth about these assassinations is supposedly right around the corner.
However, there’s been no shortage of pushback on this executive order. It’s clear that not everyone is in favor of the truth getting out.
Glenn Beck recently met with Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R), who has been tapped to lead the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets.
This task force, she says, will make sure that the declassification President Trump ordered actually comes to fruition and that Americans get the full truth.
“Just because President Trump signed an executive order doesn't mean that bureaucrats in these intelligence agencies won't attempt to block it, so we want to make sure that that's followed through, and we do have punitive authority to hold them accountable if they don't,” she told Glenn.
As for the JFK files, Luna said that she believes that much of the information that has been pushed is “faulty.”
“I do believe that there were two shooters,” she admitted, noting how autopsy reports indicated more than one entry wound.
She also warned that anyone trying to push back against declassification or discredit information shouldn’t be trusted — “If you really have nothing to hide, then you should not be afraid of the questioning; you should not be afraid of information getting out to the American people,” she said.
In the coming days, open congressional hearings will take place, during which new evidence will be presented and people who were formally written off will have their chance to speak. Granted Kash Patel is confirmed, he will also bring forth files that have long been concealed.
Glenn can’t help but be concerned, though: If Congress gets involved, won’t that just slow the process down and possibly even prevent the files from being declassified?
“The whole purpose and objective of this task force is actually to ensure that with President Trump's executive order that the agencies and the bureaucrats in those agencies do exactly what that executive order says, which is to declassify. So we're not going to be siloing or holding any information that won't be available to the American people,” Luna assured. “We are simply reopening the investigation with new evidence, also bringing in credible witnesses that will be verified and confirmed via the House Oversight Committee itself.”
As for the Epstein client list, Luna says that she is pushing for its release, but Attorney General Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, granted he is confirmed, will be the ones to make that decision. Both have spoken in favor of declassifying it.
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Republican Sens. Ron Johnson, Wis., and Chuck Grassley, Iowa, sent a formal letter to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requesting additional government records related to the Biden administration’s role in the “election interference” case targeting then-former President Donald Trump. The letter, sent April 30, to NARA Acting General Counsel Hannah Bergman and Acting […]
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