“The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence passed the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (IAA) today on a bipartisan 16-0 vote,” Senator Mark Warner’s July 28, 2021, press release stated. “The bill authorizes funding, provides legal authorities, and enhances congressional oversight for the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC).” However, the last line of his release, which is one of the background bullet point objectives for the bill, will likely be the most exciting for the general public: “Supporting the IC’s efforts to assess unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), following up on the work of the UAP Task Force.” When reading the…
Author: John Greenewald
This document is referenced in the 1996 Joint Inspection of the National Reconnaissance Office, Inspection Report No. 96-014, 23 July 1996. On April 27, 2018, The Black Vault filed a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request to have it reviewed for possible release. On July 20, 2021, the NRO released the document, in full. According to the record: “This document is a chronological listing of the more important events in the evolution of the management of the National Reconnaissance Program, to include the internal structure of the National Reconnaissance Office as well as changes in the external environment which have affected…
The following documents have been declassified by the CIA pertaining to the 9/11 attacks. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Inspector General Report on 9/11/01 OIG Report on CIA Accountability with Respect to the 9/11 Attacks – Executive Summary [19 Pages, 1MB] Inspection Report of the DCI Counter-Terrorist Center Directorate of Operations, August 2001 [81 Pages, 1.68MB] Joint Response to Draft IG 9/11 Report [16 Pages, 7.3MB] Joint Response to OIG Report – “Accountability Regarding Findings and Conclusions of the Joint” [18 Pages, 1.20MB] Memorandum to Inspector General Helgerson from George J. Tenet Regarding Assessment of Performance [19 Pages, 1.44MB] Office of Inspector General Report on…
This collection comprises of more than 60,000 pages of records often referred to as “snowflakes.” These are generally one-page memos, written by former Secretary of Defense (SecDef) Donald Rumsfeld, asking questions or issuing instructions to his staff during his tenure as SecDef. The Black Vault filed FOIA request 13-F-0376 back in the beginning of 2013, which was later amended to only include a small time frame due to fee reasons. Since then, it remained “processing.” During the same time, the National Security Archive, which deserves the credit for the below release, had filed a FOIA lawsuit to get the “snowflake”…
In July of 2021, the CDC reversed their guidance for indoor mask wearing, regardless of vaccination status. This caused controversy, because the CDC upon changing the guidance, did not publish the data supporting it. On July 30, 2021, they did. The below is the report which is, according to the CDC, what played a role in their viewpoint change. According to the report: In July 2021, following multiple large public events in a Barnstable County, Massachusetts, town, 469 COVID-19 cases were identified among Massachusetts residents who had traveled to the town during July 3–17; 346 (74%) occurred in fully vaccinated…