Assessing the Wreckage of Affirmative Action

Without question, Jason Riley is one of the most prominent black journalists in the United States, rightly known for his weekly columns in the Wall Street Journal. On a consistent basis, he shrewdly dissects the nostrums of many authors, both black and white, who assert that the road to a successful future in race relations depends on implementing a steady stream of programs whose factual predicate is that systematic racism in the United States going back to 1619 has created a toxic environment that now calls for the expansion of affirmative action programs in jobs, housing, and education.

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Roger Clemens backs Trump, says spy balloons won't 'fly across the country' with him as president



"Rocket" Roger Clemens praised President Donald Trump's governance and implied that he would not allow national security issues to go unresolved.

Clemens, a 62-year-old former MLB pitcher with two World Series titles, appeared on Fox News' "The Will Cain Show" and was asked, among other things, about the recent John F. Kennedy Jr. document dump by the Trump administration.

Host Will Cain said he thought about asking Clemens about Los Angeles Dodgers players visiting the White House, but instead asked for Clemens' "theory" after reading through "the 80,000 released documents."

'It is an honor to go to the White House.'

"I haven't [read them]," Clemens laughed. "I am looking forward to doing that," the pitcher added, before recalling his relationship with the Kennedy family.

"I was fortunate, Will, to play in two of the most historic cities' ballparks with Fenway Park and pld Yankee Stadium and became friends [with the Kennedy family]. I was able to meet a few of the Kennedys," Clemens said.

Clemens quickly took the opportunity to address the question Cain chose not to ask and stated, "It is an honor to go to the White House."

"Doesn't matter who the president is," Clemens continued. "There are some presidents that I didn't vote for, became our president, but I rooted for our president to do well no matter what once he is in there."

Rogers then expressed that he felt the same about supporting President Trump and even explained that he was still shocked at the details surrounding the first assassination attempt against Trump in 2024.

"The same thing goes with President Trump. It still amazes me that seven months ago he almost got shot on national TV. They let a guy into the rally, Will, as you know — I know I am rehashing things — it is still amazing to me they let a guy into a rally with a range finder, of all things," Clemens continued. "It is bizarre. I mean, come on."

Roger Clemens presents a baseball to President George W. Bush on May 4, 2001, in the Rose Garden of the White House. Photo by Mark Wilson/Newsmakers/Getty Images

Clemens reiterated that he is "rooting" for President Trump and directly compared his capabilities for national defense to those of President Biden.

"I am pretty sure with President Trump in the White House, you are not going to see a spy balloon fly across the country," Clemens chuckled. "But man, it's crazy. Just rooting for the guy."

The infamous Chinese spy ballopon incident from 2023 was a sore spot for the Biden administration, after the balloon was first spotted in Montana and was later revealed to have been monitored since it was initially launched from China.

The balloon was eventually shot down by U.S. fighter pilots off the coast of South Carolina after about eight days of flying over the continental United States.

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Glenn Beck investigates JFK files, reveals chilling taped confession that alleges LBJ plot in assassination



Amateur sleuths, politicos, and others hoping to glean new insights from the latest trove of unredacted John F. Kennedy files were likely frustrated if they dove into the archives in search of names that might satisfy the lingering questions of who — if not Lee Harvey Oswald — actually assassinated the president and who else may have been involved in the murder plot.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck underscored in his "Glenn TV" Wednesday Night Special that while the JFK files are disappointing if approached with questions of who, questions about what — "What has been going down? What are they trying to protect? What is the source of most of this mess?" — yield illuminating answers.

Beck and his team, aided in part by artificial intelligence, parsed through the JFK files with the "what?" type of questions in mind, testing long-standing theories, highlighting patterns of institutional abuse, and identifying the significance of certain previously unreleased files.

Over the course of the special, Beck zeroed in on what-centric documents that should put to bed any remaining doubts that the CIA is (or at least until recently has been) an unchecked, meddlesome, and dangerous organization willing to interfere in American elections, businesses, and media reports.

Going beyond the archives, Beck handily demonstrated with a replica of the rifle Oswald supposedly used in 1963, along with the appropriate "CIA bullets," that the single-shooter narrative is plausible. Beck also spoke to Shane Stevens, the grandson of Billie Sol Estes — a Texas businessman with alleged ties to Lyndon B. Johnson — about an expert-authenticated recording in which an alleged associate of LBJ accused him of hiring a hit man to take out Kennedy.

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While the audio recording and Stevens' commentary fuel more who-questions, Beck made clear that the contents of the JFK files, the substance of which is not always readily apparent, nevertheless reveal much about the intelligence community of Kennedy's time — one that proved capable of routine wrongdoing, was familiar with Oswald, and grew more brazen in the months following the president's slaying — as well as the practices they wanted to keep hidden.

Off the reservation

Beck covered a lot of ground in his Wednesday special, discussing, for instance:

  • new evidence of the bad blood between JFK and the CIA that was brought to a boil after the 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco;
  • the parallels between Kennedy's counter-moves against the CIA in the early 1960s and President Donald Trump's moves against the U.S. Agency for International Development in recent months;
  • indications that the CIA was tracking Lee Harvey Oswald from the moment he departed the Soviet Union;
  • the agency's connections to the establishment that sold Oswald the rifle that shot Kennedy, as well as to the ammunition used in the assassination;
  • the CIA's infiltration of the American media and businesses and its apparent attempted wiretap of then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; and
  • former CIA asset John Garrett Underhill Jr.'s allegation that elements of the agency killed the sitting president because he caught wind that they were "carrying on a lucrative racket in gun-running, narcotics and other contraband, and manipulating political intrigue" for their own ends.

Beck also touched on the CIA's surveillance of Barry Goldwater, citing it as another damning example of precisely how "out of control" the agency had become around the time of Kennedy's assassination.

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President Donald Trump was hardly the first Republican whose presidential campaign was infiltrated by politically motivated elements of the deep state on behalf of an incumbent Democratic president.

Barry Goldwater, a major general in the Air Force Reserve who long served as a senator for Arizona, was similarly surveilled when he ran for president against Lyndon Johnson following the Kennedy assassination. Whereas the FBI spied on Trump, in Goldwater's case, the CIA, which is prohibited by law from operating stateside, did most of the legwork.

Much has been said and written about the CIA's infiltration of Goldwater's 1964 campaign. The agency's infiltration of the Goldwater campaign has been public knowledge for roughly 50 years.

Everette Howard Hunt Jr., a 20-year veteran of the CIA who was a major agency player in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and ended up serving prison time for his role in the Watergate burglary, told Senate investigators in 1973 that he directed a spying campaign on Goldwater's 1964 campaign.

According to Hunt, the instructions concerning this espionage came down from his CIA superiors and in turn allegedly came "down from the White House." Hunt told investigators that he "dispatched a couple of people to the Goldwater headquarters to see what was going on."

The spies apparently obtained advance campaign schedules, news releases, and "any other information they could get," said Hunt. This information ultimately made its way up the chain at the CIA, including to a superior allegedly stationed at the Johnson White House.

In the special, Beck highlighted a 46-page document consisting of numerous memos — some marked "secret" and written by Scott Dudley Breckinridge Jr., the former deputy inspector general of the CIA — regarding Hunt.

'The audio sounds convincing.'

Breckinridge noted in a Dec. 20, 1973, memo marked "secret" that agency files showed that during the fall of 1964, when Hunt "was alleged to have been engaged in surveillance activities of Barry Goldwater," Hunt was in the CIA's Directorate of Operations, which is also known as the Clandestine Service.

"Our files showed Hunt was in DO Division ... and in August 1964 was assigned to the Washington field office," wrote Breckinridge.

Again, the what was telling: the CIA was running clandestine operations in the nation's capital with the apparent aim of keeping Johnson in power.

Haunting tape

In a portion of the special, Beck explored the theory of Lyndon B. Johnson's involvement with the assassination with former Nixon administration staffer Roger Stone. Beck proved more willing to entertain this particular theory on account of a haunting audiotape played in full for BlazeTV subscribers and in excerpted form on YouTube.

In January, Alex Jones of Infowars hosted Shane Stevens and played never-heard-before digital audio of Clifton Carter, the former executive director of the Democratic National Committee and an apparently close associate of LBJ, claiming in conversation with Stevens' grandfather, convicted fraudster Billie Sol Estes, that Johnson hired a man named Malcolm "Mac" Wallace to kill JFK.

"The audio sounds convincing," said Beck. "I didn't want to take anyone's word for it."

'I do believe it helps confirm the LBJ and Mac Wallace involvement.'

In addition to speaking directly to Shane Stevens about the audio and listening to the actual analog tape live, Beck indicated that his team "had a JFK assassination expert examine the original tape," whose input left him "convinced that it is an authentic recording."

Dory Wiley, JFK assassination expert and CEO of Commerce Street Holdings LLC, told the program in a statement, "I've known about these tapes for years. Estes made several copies and gave them to some of his closest friends."

"I believe them to be genuine," continued Wiley. "The voices sound like the Billie Sol Estes and Cliff Carter from other sources I have heard."

Wiley added, "I believe them to be correctly dated and recorded at the time Shane has declared, and I believe the accusations. This does not mean there wasn't involvement by the CIA, the Secret Service, FBI, Mafia, or others, but I do believe it helps confirm the LBJ and Mac Wallace involvement."

Clifton Carter appears to say in the audio, "Well, Sol, it's been a pretty touch-and-go situation. Lyndon and I have had quite a few unpleasant words here lately over the deal that he hired Mac Wallace to assassinate the president."

"It's been hectic in every way, but we've lived through it this far and I guess we'll continue to do so," Carter appears to say. "Lyndon should have never issued that order to Mac. But we've had our differences and I'm true blue to Lyndon, as I've always been and tried to carry out every order that he's ever given me. But this is one I'll probably never be able to forget."

When pressed about his delay in releasing the audio, Stevens told Beck his grandfather tried on more than one occasion to "release the truth" but came to fear for his life.

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‘You Need A Pitbull’: House Task Force To Probe Whether CIA Misled Congress On JFK Assassination

'We are working night and day to try to locate this document'

JFK files: What do these NEW documents reveal?



On Tuesday, March 18, the National Archives released over 80,000 pages of previously classified documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

What does this avalanche of new information reveal?

Glenn Beck and his chief researcher and security expert, Jason Buttrill, dig into what’s been revealed so far.

1. CIA memo / Gary Underhill

A CIA memo marked secret that’s dated July 19, 1967 included an excerpt from a June 1967 Ramparts magazine article, in which the story of Gary Underhill, a military intelligence veteran and CIA contractor, was told through the lens of his friend and confidant, who said that Underhill arrived at her place of residence in New Jersey shortly after Kennedy’s assassination. He was clearly “agitated” and blamed the president’s death on a CIA cabal.

He also allegedly indicated that he feared for his life. Six months later, Underhill was found dead in his apartment from a gunshot wound to the head. His death was ruled a suicide.

Glenn notes that while the story about Underhill has long been known, the CIA’s explicit documentation of the Ramparts article is news.

2. Oswald was a “poor shot.”

“The KGB watched Oswald closely while he was in the USSR, but files indicated that Oswald was a poor shot when he tried target practice in the Soviet Union,” says Glenn.

3. Letter about Oswald’s alleged plotting

“Another detail released was a letter sent by a man in 1978. He was a Soviet, and he made this comment to the British embassy. He claimed that he was detained in London on July 18, 1963, and questioned by authorities. He said that he told them about Lee Harvey Oswald, saying he planned to kill the president. He added that he warned American Vice Consul Tom Blackshire of the plans of Oswald, who was trying to defect to Russia,” Glenn reads, adding that this points to government incompetence.

“Right now, there is no ‘who’; there is no ‘okay, this is the person who pulled the trigger,”’ says Buttrill. “There's no deflection from the official Warren Commission report so far.”

The information that has been sifted through thus far certainly “[provides] more context,” though.

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Meet the new task force that aims to EXPOSE the government’s darkest secrets



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.

To hear more of the interview, watch the clip above.

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House Task Force Seeks To Declassify JFK Files, Epstein’s List, COVID Origins Docs And Other ‘Government Secrets’

'We’ve been treated like children for too long'

GOP rep to head task force to declassify JFK files, Epstein client list



Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida announced Tuesday that she was appointed to chair a new task force aimed at declassifying federal secrets.

The task force will focus on declassifying records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, former Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Luna will also be investigating materials pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein's client list, documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, the origins of COVID-19, and UFOs.

'This will be a relentless pursuit of truth and transparency, and we will not stop until the American people have the answers they deserve.'

"For far too long, the federal government has not answered these questions," Chairman James Comer, who appointed Luna to the post, said during a press conference Tuesday. "This creates distrust in our institutions. That ends today."

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna talks to reporters following a House Republican caucus meeting in the basement of the US Capitol on December 20, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"This will no longer be a task force that makes bold promises only to fade into irrelevance or send strongly worded letters," Luna said during the press conference. "This will be a relentless pursuit of truth and transparency, and we will not stop until the American people have the answers they deserve. We will cut through the bureaucracy, challenge the stonewalling, and ensure that the American people finally get the truth that they have been denied for far too long."

This task force emerged following President Donald Trump's historic executive order requiring the declassification of documents related to the assassinations of King and the Kennedys. Since then, the FBI has uncovered over 2,400 records tied to the assassination of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.

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JFK and MLK families unhappy about declassification. Are they afraid of the dark truth?



When President Donald Trump signed the executive order requiring the declassification of all documents related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the public was ecstatic.

After decades of conspiracy theories and wondering, finally the people will have their answers.

The enthusiasm of the general public, however, was not mirrored by the families of the victims.

“The Martin Luther King family has reacted to Trump's executive order, as has the JFK family,” Glenn Beck reports. Neither are thrilled with Trump’s decision to release the files.

“Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back,” John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, reacted.

MLK’s family members expressed hesitation and asked to be “provided the opportunity to review the files as a family prior to its public release.”

Many find these reactions strange. Shouldn’t the families of the victims want the public to know the truth about how their loved ones died?

Glenn says that what’s in these files may be so dark that the families are scared for the truth to get out.

For example, “The guy who is the Martin Luther King [Jr.] authorized biographer” — a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who even the King family has deemed credible — “has come out and said really bad things are in this file,” says Glenn.

Most people already know that King was a “philanderer,” but these files may contain evidence that King had affairs with upwards of 40 women.

Further, Glenn speculates that the MLK files may contain evidence that corroborates the 1964 blackmail letter written by the FBI accusing King of “immoral conduct lower than that of a beast.”

In the letter, the writer refers to a tape that allegedly documents all of King’s debaucheries.

“‘It is all there on the record, your sexual orgies. Listen to yourself you filthy, abnormal animal. You are on the record. You have been on the record — all your adulterous acts, your sexual orgies extending far into the past. ... There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation,”’ Glenn reads from the letter.

That said, these soon-to-be-released files may contain the tape referred to in the letter, if such a tape exists and has not already been destroyed.

As for the John F. Kennedy files and the opposition expressed by JKF’s grandson, Glenn and co-host Stu Burguiere can’t understand why someone would want to obscure the true history of what happened — even if it paints their family in a negative light.

“If you want the country to survive, you have to be transparent,” says Glenn. And that goes for the assassinations of MLK, JFK, and RFK, as well as recent events, such as the truth about January 6, Russiagate, and the Biden crime family.

“Good or bad ... the American people deserve to know the truth,” says Stu.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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Trump ushers in era of transparency, orders DECLASSIFICATION of JFK, RFK, and MLK files



When Americans voted for Donald Trump, they voted for transparency. The people have had enough of the lies that protect the deep state and leave them in the dark. Trump’s nominee for the next director of the FBI, Kash Patel, who has unabashedly supported declassification, has served as further proof that Trump is serious about rooting out corruption and bringing the truth to light.

Yesterday, he made his intentions to usher transparency into the federal government even clearer via an executive order that will declassify the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“That’s a big one, huh? A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed,” Trump said as he signed the order. He then passed his pen to a bystander and added, “Give that to RFK Jr.”

Sara Gonzales and contributors Matthew Marsden and Jaco Booyens dive into this breaking story.

“Promises made, promises kept,” says Sara, adding that this move is meant to “show the public that the American government has been working against the American people for a very, very long time.”

And Trump, as a victim of our weaponized government, is the perfect person to usher in this era of transparency.

“He's going to be in the top three presidents of all time if he keeps going like this,” says Marsden. “He's [untangling] this mess that has just festered and festered and gone on and on and on for years and years and years, and I'm here for it.”

Marsden adds that as horrible as the Biden regime was, Trump’s miraculous return to the White House “would never have happened” without “those four years of corruption.”

“It had to be that way for America to reset. It's like a re-founding that we're going through right now,” he says.

Sara is hoping that these declassifications won’t stop and that the public will finally get answers about Trump’s own near assassination.

“Let's go through all of those files, let's comb through what they know that they're not telling us because we know so very little about this man, this loner, this guy that kept to himself that just so happened to elude all of these Secret Service agents and local police,” she says.

“How did he get on the roof? He came through the metal detectors with a rangefinder? ... Why weren’t the Secret Service agents on the roof? ... Why wasn’t this in the perimeter of security in the first place?” she asks.

“There were so many things that didn’t add up, and you gotta believe that part of the reason Donald Trump is so hellbent on this is because it was only by the grace of God that he turned his head and didn’t end up like JFK.”

“Let’s not wait 30-40 years to learn” what happened, says Booyens. “Let’s learn that now.”

The panel agrees, however, that there’s a lot more that needs to be declassified in the coming days. From Benghazi to 9/11 to the Epstein list, the American people deserve to know the truth.

“Let's just go all the way and let that scalpel cut so clean and let the cookie crumble where it crumbles. If that means presidents fall, let them fall,” says Booyens.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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