The JFK secrets survived another Congress. Imagine that.

Hours after Democrats won the House on Tuesday, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), poised to chair the Oversight Committee, offered two words: “Lawyer up.” He has named four priorities: Trump family business dealings, Homeland Security and ICE, corporate corruption, and public hearings on the Epstein files. The JFK and RFK assassinations, the CIA’s MK-ULTRA experiments, and the government’s UFO secrecy are absent from that list.

That leaves the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets in trouble. Established by the Republican-led Oversight Committee, it will not automatically continue when the new Congress convenes January 3. Democrats could renew its work, but they would have to choose to do so.

If Congress walks away without even documenting the obstruction, every agency inclined to stall will have learned