Matt Gaetz: The CIA Seized Revealing Documents Meant to be Declassified from DNI’s Office

The role of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in America’s most alarming events has been the subject of controversy and debate for decades. Last week, reports of the CIA raiding the office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) raised serious questions about the boundaries of the jurisdiction of federal agencies.

On May 13, media reported the story citing Republican Congresswoman from FL Anna Paulina Luna who told media that the CIA went in and took many boxes of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and MKUltra – CIA’s illegal mind-control program that the agency ran in the 1950s and ‘60s. Congresswoman Luna was cited in The Floridian (May 13) as:

“The CIA just went in and took 40 boxes out of Tulsi’s office on stuff that we are investigating, MLK and JFK, which by the way, I don’t think Radcliffe knew about this.”

Later, Congresswoman Luna was interviewed about the story by Matt Gaetz, former Congressman from Florida who hosts a news show on One America News (OAN). She told Gaetz that she could say with confidence that 40 of those boxes that were not scanned were seized and taken by the CIA. Given that President Trump had ordered those files to be declassified, Luna said it was troubling to learn that they had been seized and taken. She also told that her office is sending a preservation of documents letter to the CIA while the matter is under investigation by the House Oversight.

On social media, the story was shared with many phrasing the CIA’s alleged seizure as a “raid” on the ODNI office that overstepped the agency’s constitutional authority. The story widely gave the impression that the CIA is subordinate to the ODNI in name only but is in reality operating as a rogue agency that has no regard for any other constitutional authority in the country. Alex Jones posted a scan of Luna’s letter, dated May 13, sent to the CIA as he wrote in the thread that the CIA raided the agency that oversees it.

But the story created further confusion as Congresswoman Luna later appeared to offer an explanation regarding the incident in question was not a raid and did not happen that day hen she talked about it, but that it did happen. On May 14, Newsweek reported that the spokesperson for the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) has denied that the CIA raided their office. The CIA, meanwhile, did not respond to media’s request for comments on the reports.

What exactly happened and will we ever be told truthfully by the administration that claims to be the most transparent one in the history of America? One can only hope but given the history of countless such stories buried soon after they make news, don’t be shocked at the death of journalistic curiosity on this one.