Background On April 19, 2018, the online news agency AXIOS published the following about the release of the memos: Copies of former FBI Director James Comey’s memos have been delivered to Congress, reports the Associated Press who has obtained and is reviewing 15 pages of the memo. Why it matters: The memos are “believed to be central” to special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. Per Politico, Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd said Congress would get two versions of the memos: an “unclassified version with sensitive information redacted and a classified unredacted version that would be transmitted through a secure channel on…
Author: John Greenewald
Background FNARS (FEMA National Radio System) is a FEMA high frequency (HF) radio network to provide a minimum essential emergency communications capability among Federal, State, local commonwealth, and territorial governments in times of national, natural and civil emergencies. Federal call signs for state emergency operations centers and FEMA facilities nationwide and are typically in the WGY### group. FEMA According to FEMA’s website: FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from and mitigate all…
Background Since the viruses was first discovered, HIV and AIDS have long been rumored to have been a biproduct of American experimentation. Varying conspiracy theories and groups alleged that HIV/AIDS was created in a laboratory, and grew beyond anyone’s control. One write-up by Wikipedia explains a few of the theories: Jakob Segal (1911–1995), a professor at Humboldt University in then-East Germany, proposed that HIV was engineered at a U.S. military laboratory at Fort Detrick, by splicing together two other viruses, Visna and HTLV-1. According to his theory, the new virus, created between 1977 and 1978, was tested on prison inmates…
Background According to the BBG website: The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is a networked global media agency. The five media organizations that comprise the BBG complement and reinforce one another in a shared mission vital to U.S. national interests: to inform, engage and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy. Together, the BBG media organizations communicate each week with more than 278 million people across the globe. In June of 2017, I requested a copy of the main pages to the BBG’s “employee only” intranet website. In August of 2017, the BBG released a CD-ROM…
Background FinCEN is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Director of FinCEN is appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury and reports to the Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. FinCEN’s mission is to safeguard the financial system from illicit use and combat money laundering and promote national security through the collection, analysis, and dissemination of financial intelligence and strategic use of financial authorities. In September of 2017, I requested the entire set of visitor logs from January 1, 2017 through to the date of processing my request, which is approximately October 17, 2017.…