Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform announced Tuesday the formation of a task force that will push for the declassification of government records related to several topics of intense public interest. The newly formed House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Government Secrets will seek documents related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy , Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy; Jeffrey Epstein’s client list; the origins of COVID-19; unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs); and the 9/11 attacks. The task force sent communications this morning to about a dozen agencies and departments including the Department of Justice and the Secretary of State. Its first hearing is set for March. The committee’s first investigation will focus on the assassination of President Kennedy. “For too long the American spirit has been dimmed by a veil of secrecy,” said Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, the task force’s lead, at a press conference. “We’ve been treated like children for too long and kept in the dark by those we elected to represent us.” Luna said that she expects the task force to be bipartisan. Republican Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky said that transparency was a “keystone” of Trump’s electoral mandate. “For far too long the American people have had reasonable questions of what their government, which they fund every day, keeps hidden about certain issues,” Comer said. “This creates distrust in our institutions. That ends today.” (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Over A Dozen States Look For Potential Fauci Charges Despite Blanket Biden Pardon) 🚨 Chairman Comer Taps Rep. Luna to Lead Task Force on Declassification and Transparency Chairman James Comer ( @RepJamesComer ) announced today the establishment of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, which will be led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna ( @RepLuna ).… pic.twitter.com/x3Nqq5bWwT — Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) February 11, 2025 The task force expects a collaborative relationship with the new Trump administration. Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe — who asked the agency to declassify its assessment with low confidence that the pandemic resulted from a lab accident within his first few hours in the directors office — has communicated his support of the task force, Luna said. “In full transparency, we have a great working relationship … with the White House, with the DOJ, with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State,” Luna said. “The incoming FBI director I think will be very supportive and we’ve also been told that the CIA director is very supportive.” “This issue transcends not just one administration but multiple administrations,” Luna continued. “It hasn’t been until now that we’ve been able to get people into positions of power that will push for transparency.” On Jan. 23 , President Donald Trump signed an executive order to declassify information related to the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and King. Luna said she expects the task force to review the records in a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) before they are released to the public. When the Office of the Director of National Intelligence shared its plans for declassifying the records related to Kennedy’s assassination with the White House last week, ODNI shared that the FBI has uncovered 2,400 previously unknown documents related to the case, Axios reported Monday . Luna and Comer said the task force is open to working with whistleblowers and independent investigators. In a statement, the National Archives and Records Administration said it looks forward to meeting the president’s executive order. “Our mission at the National Archives is to preserve, protect, and share the historical records of the United States to promote public inquiry and strengthen democratic participation,” an emailed statement said. “We look forward to working with other agencies to comply with the President’s direction pertaining to the records that document the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” In March 2023, Congress passed a law to declassify information related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s work with the People’s Liberation Army, its coronavirus research, and three researchers there who became ill in the fall of 2019, with only redactions necessary to protect sources and methods. 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Culture > Media Bias The government, media, and other Democrats have all earned the public’s lack of trust. Jack Hellner | July 21, 2025 It is extremely rich, and a grand demonstration of a complete lack of self-awareness when the WaPo, which has colluded with the government continuously to spread lies to the American people, lectures the government about the dangers of misleading the public. In this opinion piece , the lead examples are the JFK files and of course, Epstein, because the media needs to divert attention from other things. Conspiracy theories take root when government misleads From the JFK assassination to the Epstein scandal, government authorities have lost their credibility. Here is a small sample of where the WaPo, and other media outlets, to intentionally mislead (lie) to the public as they interfere in every election: 1.  Before and after the 2016 election, as the media and government bureaucrats were actively campaigning for Hillary, they started peddling the lie that Trump was colluding with Russia to win the election. There was no evidence of this, but the media didn’t care. There were endless investigations based on these lies to destroy Trump. In recent polls, 50% of Democrats still believe these lies. Indoctrination works. The WaPo and NYT even won Pulitzers based on these lies. When Trump truthfully said that Russian collusion was a hoax and that the Obama administration illegally spied on him and his team, the media falsely called that a lie. Now, Tulsi Gabbard is releasing many documents that show how the cabal of Obama, Clapper, Comey, Brennan, Susan Rice, and others concocted the Russian collusion story out of thin air. So how do WaPo and others report the new development? They don’t, because the truth doesn’t matter. 2. In 2009, Obama and others continually lied, with the help of the compliant media, that people would be able to keep their doctor, keep their plan, and premiums would go down substantially. Yet the prices have skyrocketed, because of Obamacare, for fifteen years. The media and other Democrats continue the lie that Obamacare has made health insurance more affordable. 3. Dr Fauci. Continually lied that the dictatorial edicts of six-foot social distancing, Plexiglas, and keeping schools and businesses closed were based on science when in fact, they were just concocted out of thin air. The media and others spread these lies and silenced people who disagreed. It is immeasurable how much damage this junk science has caused to children and others. When Trump and others wanted to investigate the Wuhan lab as the source of the virus, Fauci, the media, and others concocted the lie that it was a disproven conspiracy. 4. As the cartels got rich, innocent people were murdered, terrorists and gang members flooded across the border, and 300,000 children were “lost,” Merrick Garland, the White House, and special interest groups targeted parents who complained at school board meetings . They were compared to domestic terrorists. Throughout the Biden and Obama years, the media peddled the lie that the Justice Department was independent and no one was above the law. 5. The FBI and intelligence agencies knew about the Biden family corruption and knew the laptop was real, yet they blocked the public from seeing it. Blinken organized 51 former intelligence officials to call it Russian disinformation, and the complicit media kept the public from seeing the truth in the 2010 election. 6. Bob Hur listed all the crimes that Biden potentially committed, but said he was above the law because he was too incompetent. The cabinet, media, and other Democrats called that a lie. They falsely said that Biden was sharp as a tack, and also falsely said that Hur exonerated him. 7. The media has buried the hearings on Biden family corruption and is burying the truth about the dangers of the autopen. They clearly don’t care that people other than Biden were running the White House as they pretend they care about integrity. 8. One of the biggest and most damaging lies that the public is endlessly told by the media, government, and other Democrats is that it is settled science that humans and our use of natural resources is causing climate change. They say this even though there is zero scientific data that shows a direct link between the number of humans, number of cars, amount of oil we use, amount of coal we use, or amount of natural gas we use and temperatures, storms, sea levels, and floods. They also don’t care that previous dire predictions have been 100% wrong. They silence anyone who tells the truth that the climate has always changed cyclically and naturally. 9. The White House, Justice Department, the media, and other Democrats also sought to destroy border patrol members with lies that they whipped Haitians. There is no end of the people that the media and other Democrats seek to destroy with lies to push their agenda. It could be white Catholic boys for wearing MAGA hats, or white Duke Lacrosse players after black woman cried rape, or fraternity boys that were falsely accuse of rape in a Rolling Stone article, or a white cop falsely accused in Ferguson, Missouri with the fake “hands up don’t shoot” story, or when the WaPo ran a non-verified story to destroy Judge Kavanaugh. The media whines whenever inspector generals, state department officials, intelligence officials, CDC staff, Justice department officials, and others are fired. They say how valuable they are. Here are a couple of jokes: NPR and PBS are balanced, and Colbert speaks truth to power. They are all essentially Democrat campaign workers. PBS and NPR should also lose their tax-exempt status because they campaign every day for one party. As for Epstein, I would also like to see more evidence, but the media and other Democrats didn’t care about Epstein during Obama’s and Biden’s twelve years in office, and they don’t care now. All they care about is getting the scalp of Trump, a goal they’ve had for ten years, no matter how much they have to lie and “mislead.” The NYT and WSJ recent stories about Trump and Epstein show how little the media cares about verification. Think of how much more successful Trump could be if he didn’t have to deal with all the people attacking him and his policies every day. Image: Dion Hinchcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Flickr , unaltered. Now more than ever, the ability to speak our minds is crucial to the republic we cherish. If what you see on American Thinker resonates with you, please consider supporting our work with a donation of as much or as little as you can give. Every dollar contributed helps us pay our staff and keep our ideas heard and our voices strong. Thank you.

Politics > Epstein Not buying the explanation that there was no Epstein client list. Eric Utter | July 9, 2025 Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. I’m from the government and I’m here to help. The check is in the mail. The Titanic is the safest ship ever built. I never had sex with that woman! If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. The Earth has only 12 years left until it will spontaneously combust. We just need two weeks to flatten the curve. The vaccines are totally safe. The 2020 presidential election was the most secure and accurate one ever. These protests were fiery but peaceful. Hunter’s laptop has all the earmarks of a Soviet disinformation campaign. Donald Trump may be a Russian plant. Jan. 6 was an insurrection! The Chinese balloon was just gathering weather-related information, and was probably just blown off course, anyway. The Coronavirus didn’t come from the Wuhan lab. The litany of lies is legion. And a stain on this republic. Not that many other governments around the world have a much better track record of telling the unvarnished truth — whether in recent years or antiquity. I think many of us know why the Epstein client list isn't being released, or any other pertinent information pertaining to the whole sordid affair, for that matter. But not releasing this could cause instability, too. And it certainly will lead nearly everyone to continue to be extremely skeptical, at the very least, of anything any government entity might say. I was hoping the Trump administration’s transparency and openness would help alleviate that skepticism and lead to a more functional society. Looks like I might have been mistaken. Governments tax us and spend our money on absurdities. And they lie to us. Incessantly. Caught in the blizzard of lies, many of us turn bitter and lose faith. That is no way for a nation to move forward. That is no way to Make America Great Again. “This is the best version of Biden ever. (Eff you if you don’t believe me!)” “There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.” “There is no Epstein list.” And there is most assuredly nothing to see here! Yes, there is. It’s called shame . Image: Pixabay / Pixabay License Now more than ever, the ability to speak our minds is crucial to the republic we cherish. If what you see on American Thinker resonates with you, please consider supporting our work with a donation of as much or as little as you can give. Every dollar contributed helps us pay our staff and keep our ideas heard and our voices strong. Thank you.