One of President DONALD TRUMP’s first executive orders — declassifying thousands of documents related to the 1963 assassination of former President JOHN F. KENNEDY — has raised a fair amount of excitement among a few very disparate groups of people. Historians want content. Kennedy devotees want more JFK. And conspiracy theorists, of course, want fuel for more conspiracies. “That’s a big one, huh?” Trump said as he signed the order last month. “A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. Everything will be revealed.” But one of the men who investigated Kennedy’s assassination 50 years ago insists this move is largely “for show.” Yes, there are secrets to learn about the case that has captivated a nation, he says — but not in what Trump is releasing. JIM JOHNSTON was one of the three lawyers who looked into the assassination in 1975 on the Senate Intelligence Committee, later writing a book on their investigations. And Johnston says, based on seeing the documents himself, that Trump’s move to declassify won’t yield any new information. The CIA still has discretion of what exactly it can and will release, Johnston says, and the most news-breaking information won’t be in this tranche of declassifications. West Wing Playbook called up Johnston to discuss Trump’s decision. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. A lot. The problem is, the interesting things are not in the files that are subject to Trump’s order. Elaborate on that. Currently, almost all the files have already been released. But there are words or sentences on documents that have not been released. And that’s what this is all about: It’s over words. It’s not over documents. Everyone in the public who follows this has access to every document, at least from the CIA, that has been turned over to the National Archives. What concerned me were the documents that were not turned over. The public knows the gist of what’s in these documents. They might just not know certain words or phrases. It’s a hoax. The public has been made to believe that there’s something secret in the documents. The fact of the matter is, almost all the documents have been made public in whole or in part. There can’t be anything very secret in them, because you would know from the words that are in the documents. The CIA has criteria for what it would not release, and what it would not release is anything of current intelligence value. So you’re saying there’s not much substantive information there that Trump is ordering to get declassified? There’s not going to be anything earth-shaking there. It’s all for show. It’s a political stunt, because there’s still so much controversy. And people think that these are called secret files, so there must be something secret in them. But the answer is no, there’s nothing secret about the Kennedy assassination — at least, in the files that are still remaining. They’re just little words here and there that are picky intelligence business stuff. It’s a hypothetical way of thinking. If the CIA wanted to hide something, if there were really something secret about the assassination that the agencies didn’t want to go public, they would not have given this to the National Archives. And that’s what happened. Well, I think from Trump’s standpoint, he campaigned on it. He likes to say, ‘I’m the big guy, and I can make things happen.’ So he’s going to do this, and there’s not going to be anything in them, and he’s going to say, ‘Well, I didn’t know that.’ Also at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday night, MIKE FLYNN, Trump’s former national security adviser who now leads the conservative group America Future, will host an awards program honoring one member each from the Army, the Navy, the Marines, the Air Force and the Space Force. The Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency placed the money at Citibank last year to fund efforts by nonprofit green groups to reduce climate pollution. Cheung said interim U.S. Attorney ED MARTIN had demanded her resignation after she refused to order the bank to freeze the funds while asserting that a criminal probe was underway. “When I explained that the quantum of evidence did not support that action, you stated that you believed that there was sufficient evidence,” Cheung wrote in a three-page letter to Martin dated Tuesday, which was obtained by POLITICO. “I still do not believe that there is sufficient evidence to issue the letter you described.” ELON MUSK = ANITA DUNN? The billionaire Tesla owner is not the leader of DOGE, the White House said in court papers Monday night. In a three-page declaration, a top White House personnel official revealed that Musk’s title is “senior adviser to the president,” a role in which he has “no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself,” Cheney also reports. The explanation, provided to a federal court by JOSHUA FISHER, the director of the White House’s Office of Administration, seems to directly contradict the way Trump and Musk have publicly talked about the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Fisher compared Musk’s role to ANITA DUNN, a senior adviser to Biden who occupied a similar title and employment designation in the White House. “Good luck with that, they just fired the whole privacy team,” someone at an OPM email address wrote in response to CNN’s FOIA request. “Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formerly taboo or insufficiently scrutinized,” Kennedy told HHS staff in his first address to the department he now leads. “I’m willing to subject them all to the scrutiny of unbiased science.”

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