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System Update with Glenn Greenwald

What JFK Documents Reveal About CIA; New Info About Mahmoud Khalil’s Views and Character; PLUS: Glenn’s Fox Appearance on Free Speech, Khalil Case

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Trump releases all the JFK files which reveal the shocking scope of the security state going back to the 1960's. Plus: pro-Israel fanatics attempt to smear Mahmoud Khalil's character as he remains in detention for political speech. ------------ Watch full episodes on Rumble, streamed LIVE 7pm ET. Become part of our Locals community Follow System Update:  Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tonight, one of President Trump's longtime promises with that he would fully declassify

1:01.9

and release the JFK files.

1:03.7

This goes all the way back to the first time he ran in 2016.

1:07.1

He just made good on that promise over the objections of several key officials in his administration, including CIA director John Ratcliffe.

1:14.6

And while many of the documents were released years ago, many unredacted passages are entirely new.

1:20.6

I wouldn't call any of them a smoking gun. If those smoking gun documents exist, they would likely have been eliminated a long time ago, but some of them

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are quite revealing. One of the most important and interesting ones is a memo from JFK's long-time

1:34.2

confidant and advisor, Arthur Schlesinger, who in the wake of the CIA's botched 1961 invasion of

1:40.8

Cuba in the Bay of Pigs debacle, wrote to the president a 16-page memo that the

1:46.6

CIA had become completely out of control and that it was urgent to impose fundamental reforms

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and restraints on the agency. Now, much of this document, like many of them, had been previous

1:58.0

released, but key sections had been redacted and are now available.

2:02.1

The CIA at the time was, needless to say, enraged by any suggestion that the agency needed

2:07.9

to be reigned in. They were further enraged when JFK fired the father of the CIA, Alan Dulles,

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