Background Executive Summary Over the course of 1 week in June 2007, a 15-year old high school student emailed a series of bomb threats to administrators and staff at Timberline High School, near Seattle, Washington. The threats caused daily school evacuations. The individual used “proxy servers” to e-mail the bomb threats in order to hide his location. When local law enforcement officials were unable to identify or locate the individual, they requested assistance from a cybercrime task force supervised by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Seattle Field Division. FBI agents on the task force, working with FBI technology and…
Author: John Greenewald
Background Excerpt from report: In fiscal year (FY) 2010, Congress passed Public Law 111–258 (2010), the Reducing Over-Classification Act, which required the Inspectors General for all federal agencies and departments with officers and employees possessing original classification authority to conduct two evaluations – one in FY 2013 and another in FY 2016. In September 2013, the Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued its audit report on DOJ’s Implementation of and Compliance with Certain Classification Requirements. For that first evaluation, Congress directed the Inspectors General to: (1) assess whether applicable classification policies, procedures, rules,…
Background – Original NSA Release The NSA was a target of one of my original FOIA requests, which yielded the below results. Some of these records were one of the first documents I scanned onto The Black Vault back in 1996, and are archived here as a timestamp for what the NSA was releasing then vs. now. National Security Agency’s UFO Files Batch #1 [159 Pages] National Security Agency’s Batch #2, Records Once Exempt From Release [254 Pages] The “Missing” UFO Files The below documents are the UFO records released today by the NSA. Years after The Black Vault put…
Background Aircraft and midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy began a surprise attack on the U.S. under the command of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Despite long-standing assertions that this attack could have been predicted and prevented by the United States Military, the U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor appeared to be utterly unprepared, and the attack was devastating in loss of life and damage to the U.S. fleet. At 6:05 a.m. on December 7, the six Japanese carriers launched a first wave of 183 planes composed mainly of dive bombers, horizontal bombers and fighters. Declassified Documents Pearl Harbor: Failure of…
Executive Summary Drug traffickers and out-of-state opportunists are exploiting Colorado’s medical marijuana laws. Recent revisions to state law have done little to prevent the involvement of criminals and individuals who use the law for financial gain. Currently, convicted criminals and known drug traffickers participate in Colorado’s medical marijuana industry. Moreover, an influx of traffickers and entrepreneurs from other states is seeking to cash in on Colorado’s medical marijuana industry. Investigative and intelligence information reveal a significant volume of Colorado-produced marijuana being diverted to out-of-state marijuana markets where it commands a higher price. This activity is facilitated both by those directly involved in medical marijuana businesses, as well as illicit brokers…