#shorts On 4/6/2023, a reporter asked NSC Spox John Kirby, “Why not an independent review? transparency declassify beyond the 12-page?
Reporter: Why did the administration choose not to make this an independent review?

Kirby: These were independent reviews. The after-action re- —

Reporter: (Inaudible.)

Kirby: No — no, no. The after-action reviews that were done by the Defense Department and at the State Department — they’re the two prime ones that we’re talking about here — they were done completely independently. You — you will — you’ll see that.

Reporter: Well, they’re still fundamentally his Cabinet agencies, his Cabinet leaders conducting the agency — or conducting the reviews of his actions. Why not an outside commission — outside, independent person to review what the administration did?

Kirby: Each of these agencies voluntarily conducted these reviews. The President didn’t dictate to them how they were going to conduct those reviews …

Reporter: And I know you were asked earlier about releasing more beyond the — beyond the 12-page report. And you talked about information just being very highly classified, but the President can obviously declassify anything that he wants. So would he do so in the interest of transparency, in the interest of the public knowing more about what happened with the withdrawal beyond the 12-page perspective of the NSC?

Kirby: So, again, a couple of things to remember: This is an ongoing process here.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/gGN8xCDuDAo
Q: Why not an independent review? transparency declassify beyond the 12-page?