Congress, therefore, should call the Assassination Records Review Board back into existence to enforce the release of those records.

The ARRB was originally called into existence in 1992 as part of the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. The following is the back story.

The CIA, the Pentagon, and other parts of the national-security establishment had succeeded in keeping their assassination-related records secret for almost 30 years. Oliver Stone came out with his movie JFK in 1991, which posited that the assassination was not the act of a lone nut, as the official account related, but rather a highly sophisticated U.S. regime-change operation similar to those in Iran and Guatemala several years before.

At the end of Stone's movie, there was a blurb about the continued official secrecy in the Kennedy assassination. The implication was clear: the secrecy was designed to assist the cover up of the national-security state's assassination of the president.

There was so much public outrage over the continue secrecy that Congress was pressured into enacting the JFK Records Act, which mandated the released of all assassination related records in the possession of federal agencies, including the Pentagon and the CIA.