Article snippet: The Trump administration is blocking the release of some records compiled during the investigation into the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy, which were set to be released on Thursday. President Trump said in a memo he "has no choice" but to withhold the information as requested by government agencies, citing national security concerns. Officials said the concerns originated mostly from the FBI and CIA. "I have no choice today but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our Nation's security," Trump said in the memo to department and agency heads released by the White House. The administration said that 2,800 of the 3,100 still-unreleased government records would be disclosed Thursday. Officials said the remaining records would be released after a six-month review period, though with some redactions. "The remaining records will be released with agency-proposed redactions on a rolling basis in the coming weeks," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. "The President has demanded unprecedented transparency from the agencies and directed them to minimize redactions without delay. The National Archives will therefore release more records, with redactions only in the rarest of circumstances, by the deadline of The records released Thursday evening were set to be available on the National Archive's website. Speculation swirled for weeks over whether Trump would release the highly a... Link to the full article to read more