EVD-025
Commission leadership: FBI said it wasn't withholding anything
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Provenance
- Source
- ProPublica / New York Times reporting on declassified FBI files (2023–2024)
- Date
- 2023-04-27
- Page
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- SHA-256
- 106b74e6fe89771135c0246d77bb85da890e541980f23b6a9a64c1c550f73c43
- Classification
- unclassified
- Copyright
- fair use research
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Observation
The Commission chair states the FBI represented that nothing was being withheld.
Interpretation
If later FBI products contain material the Commission never saw, that is a documented process failure. Motive (incompetence vs concealment) is not established by this quote.
Source text
Tom Kean, Commission chairman, reacted to later reporting that FBI had not shown the Commission all Bayoumi-related material. This is a statement about the Commission's access, supporting H009 as a process hypothesis. It is not independent proof of the withheld content — the content is the FBI documents themselves (EVD-009–013).
Hypothesis linkage
Commission chair: FBI said it was not withholding.
Citations
- Cites EVD-010