Tulsi Gabbard, as DNI spokesperson, announces the release of previously unredacted assassination documents. The administration found 50,000+ pages related to Robert F. Kennedy's investigation in the National Archives and is scanning them with over 100 staff members. More releases will follow.
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And first of all, this came about because President Trump promised the American people that his administration would be one of maximum transparency. And one of the first things that he did when he came back into the Oval Office was issue an executive order that said, we need to release all the documents that we have unredacted on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. So we did the initial release of the previously never had been unredacted documents related to President Kennedy's assassination. And what we have just released Here today is 10,000 pages that have been sitting in boxes within the National Archives that had never been digitized or viewed publicly before. These are documents related to the government's investigation into the assassination, documents related to discussions that were going on in other countries, State Department cables around the assassination, and a lot of the questions and theories that were being posed throughout this investigation. But I think a lot of people, most people have never seen before. The significance of this is huge. It's been nearly 60 years since Senator Kennedy was assassinated. We're obviously not stopping here. We discovered 10,000 pages at National Archives. We sent people out to hunt through different warehouses at the FBI and CIA, knowing there are likely other documents that have not yet been turned over to National Archives. And I tell you, just the other day, we discovered over 50,000 additional pages solely around Senator Kennedy's assassination that we have over 100 people at National Archives going through and scanning. And that will be the second release that we'll have here shortly.
