Jefferson Morley Gets a New Job
- Fred Litwin
- 18 hours ago
- 8 min read
Here is his text:
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna announced today that I have been appointed as an adviser to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. I’m honored to be assisting the Committee in writing a report on the status of JFK assassination files since the implementation of President Trump’s Executive Order 14176.
To give the report the attention it deserves, and to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, I am going to take a leave of absence from JFK Facts.
As I relinquish editorial responsibility, Managing Editor Steve Byrne will take over the editorship for the next six months. Steve, a veteran of the Detroit Free Press, is an experienced editor who sustains the site’s commitment to journalism, fact checking, and news on a daily basis. With 22,000 subscribers, JFK Facts has established itself as a news outlet and will continue to publish authoritative journalism about new developments in the JFK story. My plan is to return as editor in December.
As an adviser to the Committee, I will be available to comment on background for all news platforms and podcasts interested in the status of the JFK assassination files. Rest assured, I will not favor JFK Facts over any other news outlet. I will not leak. I will not meme. I will not “gatekeep.” Never have. Never will. I will help the Committee write a comprehensive report on the state of the historical record of JFK’s assassination in time for the 63rd anniversary of the event next November.
Morley includes this announcement from the Task Force:
Here is the tweet from Anna Paulina Luna announcing his new position as an advisor to her task force:
It is still not clear what Morley will be doing. He says that he will be "assisting the Committee in writing a report on the status of JFK assassination files." But, the announcement from Luna says that he will assist in "publishing a comprehensive report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in the near future."
It is strange that a witness before the Task Force may now be involved in writing its report. The two hearings that Anna Paulina Luna convened were a joke. She could have talked to real experts on the JFK files like Robert Reynolds or Rex Bradford, but instead she had conspiracy theorists like James DiEugenio, Oliver Stone, and Douglas Horne testify.
Morley's nothingburger of a story about George Joannides and his supposed Oswald operation may now get the imprimatur of an official US government report. But that won't change the fact that he has come up with very little. Hopefully there will be some people on the staff of the task force that will see to it that James Angleton and Allen Dulles aren't portrayed as villains.
This will close Anna Paulina Luna's chapter on the JFK assassination.
Now she can focus on UFOs.
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