House Democrats on Tuesday decried the Trump administration’s rollout of records related to the 1963 assassination of former President Kennedy, raising concerns about the release of personal information even as they agreed with Republican colleagues that there was value in accessing the files.

“We’ve got to have transparency so that we can learn to be better, so that we can hold agencies accountable. But being reckless with this sensitive information is also not the way to do it,” said Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) during a hearing focused on the flood of so-called “JFK files.”

“Unfortunately, the rollout of documents that we’ve seen so far has been sloppy and rushed. The release didn’t really give us a smoking gun, but it did produce plenty of collateral damage,” Lee said.

An executive order from President Trump prompted the National Archives to release thousands of files related to Kennedy’s killing. Through unredacted documents, hundreds of Social Security numbers and other personal data were made public, putting some living individuals named in the records

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