Tucker Carlson claims JFK files are being desperately blocked by senior politician

Tucker Carson has claimed that Republican Senator Tom Cotton has been working behind the scenes to block the release of the JFK assassination files. 

In a conversation with Chris Cuomo, Carlson claimed the Arkansas lawmaker prevented a key intelligence hire in the Trump cabinet in order to stop the full release of the classified documents. 

'At one point there was someone who was being discussed for a job in the intel world, and a member of the SSCI… went to the people making the decision and said, "You cannot hire this person because this person will be certain to push for the release of the JFK files,"' Carlson said on his podcase on Monday. 

'You have to ask yourself, "What is that?"... If you’re telling me that six weeks ago, a member of the United States Senate was trying to keep someone out of a job in order to keep these files secret, that is to protect the CIA, I don’t believe that for a second.'

Pressed by Cuomo to reveal the senator in question, Carlson said 'Tom Cotton of Arkansas did that.'

Sen Cotton quickly denied Carlson's claims.

'This is false. I have no problem releasing the 'JFK files,' Cotton said on X.

'Had Tucker Carlson asked me, I would’ve told him. He has texted me multiple times in recent weeks, so he knows how to reach me.'

When Cuomo asked Carlson why he hadn't just asked Cotton about the JFK files, the former Fox News star replied that he did not think the senator would agree to an interview. 

Cotton was born in 1977, 14 years after JFK's assassination, and Carlson did not offer any theory as to why the lawmaker would want to suppress the files.  

Back in January president Trump ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades.

The order directed the national intelligence director and attorney general to develop a plan to release classified records related to Kennedy’s assassination. 

Last month the FBI said it discovered 2,400 new records related to the assassination of president Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with Trump’s executive order.

The FBI said it’s working to transfer the records to the National Archives and Records Administration to be included in the declassification process.

Trump promised during his reelection campaign to make public the last batches of still-classified documents surrounding President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, which has transfixed people for decades. Trump made a similar pledge during his first term, but ultimately bent to appeals from the CIA and FBI to withhold some documents. 

The federal government in the early 1990s mandated that all documents related to the November 22, 1963, assassination be housed in a single collection at the National Archives. And while the vast majority of the collection — which includes over 5 million pages of records — has been made public, researchers estimate that 3,000 files haven’t been released, either in whole or in part.

Surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald, a file on a Cuban hitman, and the president's plan to obliterate the CIA are among bombshell revelations that could be contained within secret JFK assassination files.

Kennedy was assassinated in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, as his motorcade passed in front of the Texas School Book Depository building.

Gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, shot from a sixth-floor sniper's perch, and was himself gunned down two days later.

The Warren Commission concluded Oswald acted alone, but conspiracy theories have run riot ever since.

Many center on the rumored presence of a second gunman hiding on a grassy knoll on Dallas' Dealey Plaza, who opened fire as the president drove past.

A House of Representatives committee that investigated the assassination during the 1970s concluded that there may well have been a second gunman.

But its report was unable to provide definitive proof of the claim.