Background In June of 2014, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) FOIA online submission tool went down. It created quite a few problems and frustrations for frequent requesters such as myself. So, I thought it would be interesting to see what they had internally regarding the incident. So after the site went back online, I filed a a request on July 1, 2014 for the following: “…all records pertaining to the temporary problem that brought down the CIA’s FOIA web site, including the ability to submit online FOIA requests, in June and July of 2014… {snip} which would include, but not be…
Author: John Greenewald
Background According to the report: On September 21, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), discovered that [ REDACTED ] Office of the Chief Accountant (OCA), may have transmitted nonpublic information from his personal Gmail e-mail account to his official SEC work e-mail account. Specifically, during the course of investigative activities related to OIG Case #15-COM-0419-I, the OIG found [ REDACTED ] forwarded an internal SEC e-mail and attachment dated April 12, 2015, [ REDACTED ] It appeared [ REDACTED ] forwarded this e-mail from his personal Gmail address on April 12, 2015.…
Executive Summary Fifteen years after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, the terrorist threat remains in the United States and abroad, as evidenced by recent attacks in Paris, France; San Bernardino, California; Brussels, Belgium; Orlando, Florida; and Nice, France. The U.S.’s national security depends on the ability to share the right information with the right people at the right time. This requires sustained and responsible collaboration among federal, state, local, and tribal entities, as well as the private sector and international partners. In response to a request from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Senate Homeland Security…
Background Through enforcing vehicle performance standards and partnerships with state and local governments, NHTSA reduces deaths, injuries and economic losses from motor vehicle crashes. Below, you will find the Records Schedule for the NHTSA. Document Archive National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Comprehensive Record Schedule [105 Pages, 13.9MB] https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/nhtsa/ES17-000668.pdf
Background According to the investigation report: Our objective was to determine whether continental United States Army counterintelligence investigative activities and evidence handling procedures complied with Executive Order 12333, DoD policy, and U.S. Army regulations. Findings Overall, we found that the Army is conducting counterinteiHgence investigative activities and evidence handling procedures in accordance with Executive Order 12333, DoD policy, and U.S. Army regulations. However, we found that the Army does not have a policy for entering subjects of Limited Counterintelligence Assessments into the Defense Central Index of Investigations as outlined by DoD Instruction 5505.07, “Titling and Tndexing Subjects of Criminal Investigations…