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A newly announced Congressional task force will seek to declassify documents on a host of topics that have long been hotbeds for conspiracy theory. The so-called House “Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets” will be helmed by notable MAGA acolyte Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and promises to disclose previously unknown information about a variety of controversial issues, including 9/11, UFOs, the origins of Covid-19, dead pedophile and former-Donald-Trump-pal Jeffrey Epstein, and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King.
“For too long, the federal government has kept information of public interest classified and the American people are demanding greater transparency,” said Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.). “This secrecy has sowed distrust in our institutions. The Task Force will build on the Trump Administration’s efforts to declassify records of national importance and ensure Americans get the answers they deserve. Representative Luna is committed to shining a light on the truth and ending the era of secrecy.”
“The federal government has been hiding information from Americans for decades,” said Luna. “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.” During a press conference announcing the task force, Luna leveraged her valley girl drawl to announce that she personally felt that there were “two shooters” involved in the JFK assassination.
It’s unclear what Luna is talking about when she says she’s “spent years” seeking information about the Kennedys and King. A Google search involving Luna’s name and “JFK” returns no visible hits prior to Jan. 23rd, when Trump signed an executive order mandating the release of new files on the assassinations. A similar search for Luna and “MLK” and “assassination” leads to one of Google’s notoriously vexing rebuttals: “It looks like there aren’t many great matches for your search.” When it comes to UFOs, however, obviously Luna has more experience. In 2023, she helped host a hearing that, among other things, investigated whether UFOs are time-traveling entities from another dimension. It’s unclear whether the new task force will offer more of the same dopey bullshit or actually provide Americans with something substantial and interesting.
Ironically, the investigations into the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK, have long been the domain of leftwing activists and journalists, many of whom fought for years to get the government to disclose information about the notorious tragedies. Now, it would appear that the movement for government transparency has been co-opted by right-wing libertarians who hate leftists, hate journalists, and hate the federal government, and who want to use the government’s old secrets to justify its contemporary destruction.
Delving into the government’s old controversies also offers an obvious opportunity for the current administration to weaponize those controversies against its political enemies. An investigation into the likes of Jeffrey Epstein, Covid-19’s origins, and the assassinations, deserves an open and bipartisan commission, replete with outside investigators and access for the public and journalists. Yet it will be difficult to trust the political neutrality of the information produced by Luna’s task force, given the fact that she recently introduced legislation to add Donald Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore.
