Background On April 1, 2016 (no it was not an April Fool’s joke), the Washington Post published the following: “Briar Woods High School, a half-hour drive from the CIA’s headquarters in Northern Virginia, might have provided an ideal training ground for the agency’s bomb-sniffing dogs. Its labyrinthine hallways and voluminous classrooms are home to something that can wreak havoc for the canines: polished floors, which cause dogs to slip and lose their focus as they hunt for explosives. That was one reason the school, which educates nearly 1,700 students in Ashburn, played host to a CIA dog team for a…
Author: John Greenewald
Background To explain the history, Wikipedia explains this era of events as the following: “General elections were held in Italy on Sunday 18 April 1948 to elect the First Republican Parliament. They were heavily influenced by the Cold War confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, and are now best known for the covert political warfare waged by the US State Department and Central Intelligence Agency on behalf of the Christian Democratic Party (DC). After the communist coup in Czechoslovakia in February 1948, the US became alarmed about Soviet intentions and feared that, if the leftist coalition were…
Background On 10 May 2005, Vladimir Arutyunian waited for United States President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to speak. When Bush began speaking, he threw a Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade, wrapped in a red plaid handkerchief, toward the podium where Bush stood as he addressed the crowd. The grenade landed 18.6 metres (61 ft) from the podium, near where Saakashvili, his wife Sandra E. Roelofs, Laura Bush, and other officials were seated. The grenade failed to detonate. Although original reports indicated that the grenade was not live, it was later revealed that it was. After Arutyunian pulled…
Background Hillary Rodham Clinton served as U.S. Secretary of State from January 21, 2009 to February 1, 2013. The FBI conducted an investigation into allegations that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on a personal e-mail server she used during her tenure. Declassified Documents Department of Justice (DOJ) Documents DOJ Communications with the FBI Regarding Hillary Clinton Email Investigation – [590 Pages, 30.1MB] Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Documents FBI Notes Regarding Hillary Clinton Email Scandal – Mishandling of Classified Information – Release #1 [58 Pages, 38.2MB] FBI Notes Regarding Hillary Clinton Email Scandal – Mishandling of Classified Information – Release #2…
Background This document was first released in 2016 (which I have archived below). I requested a Mandatory Declassification Review in November of 2018, and it appears someone else did the same earlier in the year, and it was processed again with less redactions. This is still highly classified and is available below. Document Archive Additional Operational and Security Considerations for the Next Phase of Abu Zubaydah Interrogation, July 2, 2002 [6 Pages, 0.8MB] https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/EOM-2019-00096.pdf 2016 Original CIA Release [6 Pages, 0.8MB] https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/0006541506.pdf