Category: National Archives

National Archives Releases Most, but Not All JFK Files: ‘We Protect What We Must’

More than 99 percent of the classified documents surrounding the 1963 assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy have been publicly released following the conclusion of a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) review, according to the White House. Sharing the news at a June 30 press briefing, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre…


National Archives Admits Every Administration Since Reagan Has Mishandled Classified Documents

Mishandling of classified documents by recent presidents has been the norm, not the exception, according to newly declassified testimony from a House Intelligence Committee hearing with National Archives’ staff. William Bosanko, the agency’s chief operating officer, told Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) during the March 1 hearing that every “administration from Reagan forward[,] we have found…


National Archives Sued for Shielding Documents Declassified by Trump

The National Archives and Records Administration is illegally withholding documents that were declassified by former President Donald Trump, according to a new lawsuit. The archives, or NARA, has repeatedly refused to provide the documents Trump declassified just before leaving office on Jan. 19, 2021. The documents relate to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation, a counterintelligence…


Judge Orders Peter Navarro to Turn Over Private Emails That Discussed White House Work

A federal judge in the District of Columbia has ordered former President Donald Trump’s former trade and political adviser Peter Navarro to turn over hundreds of emails from a private email account that related to his official work. In August 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a civil claim (pdf) against Navarro, alleging copies…


House GOP Questions Whether Biden Admin Suppressed National Archive Statements in Classified Documents Case

The Republican-led House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is raising new questions as to whether the Biden administration pressured the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to avoid issuing a public statement on President Joe Biden’s handling of potentially classified documents. The questions about the White House’s role in the classified documents case come about…


National Archives Reaches Agreement With Two Pro-Life Activists Denied Entry to Museum

The National Archives and two pro-life activists have reached a deal in a legal case brought after the activists were denied entry to the National Archives Museum. Security officers denied entry to multiple people, including law student Wendilee Lassiter, into the museum on Jan. 20 because of pro-life messages on their clothes. The parties said…


The Mystery of America’s Secrets Gone AWOL

If America’s greatest secrets are so crucial to national security, why do classified documents keep showing up where they shouldn’t? Since last August, when federal agents raided former President Trump’s Palm Beach home seeking classified documents he had removed from the White House, national secrets have also been discovered at various properties connected to President…


National Archives Apologizes After Telling Visitors to Cover Pro-Life Clothes to See Bill of Rights

The National Archives on Friday apologized for telling visitors that they must cover up or remove their pro-life attire while being in the chamber where the original copy of the Bill Of Rights is on display. “As the home to the original Constitution and Bill of Rights, which enshrine the rights of free speech and…


LIVE 6:30 PM ET: NTD Evening News (Jan. 26): Judge Blocks California’s COVID Misinformation Law; 5 Former Officers Charged in Tyre Nichols’s Death

A federal judge in California paused the state’s so-called COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation law that has been challenged by doctors in two lawsuits, claiming it violates their constitutional rights. NTD’s Stefania Cox speaks with an attorney representing the doctors. Five former Memphis police officers have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Tyre…


LIVE NOW: NTD Evening News (Jan. 26): Judge Blocks California’s COVID Misinformation Law; 5 Former Officers Charged in Tyre Nichols’s Death

A federal judge in California paused the state’s so-called COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation law that has been challenged by doctors in two lawsuits, claiming it violates their constitutional rights. NTD’s Stefania Cox speaks with an attorney representing the doctors. Five former Memphis police officers have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Tyre…