The mission of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is to foster open, transparent, competitive, and financially sound markets, to avoid systemic risk, and to protect the market users and their funds, consumers, and the public from fraud, manipulation, and abusive practices related to derivatives and other products that are subject to the Commodity Exchange Act. In carrying out this mission and to promote market integrity, the Commission polices the derivatives markets for various abuses and works to ensure the protection of customer funds. Further, the agency seeks to lower the risk of the futures and swaps markets to the…
Author: John Greenewald
Agencies amass an amazing amount of information of terrorist organizations and their capabilities. Below, you will find many of the reports obtained through the FOIA and available publicly. Annual Report to The President and The Congress of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (2nd). II. Toward a National Strategy for Combating Terrorism [191 Pages] Assassination: A Tool to Counter Osama Bin Laden and Other Transnational Terrorists [31 Pages] Combating Biological Terrorism: Is Department of Defense Prepared to Support U.S. Government Interagency Quarantine Operations [26 Pages] Combatting Domestic Terrorism: A Strategic Approach…
The Black Vault has obtained, and archived, multiple document releases from the Department of Justice and the Director of National Intelligence regarding the action by President George W. Bush, and the authorization of surveillance. Below, you will find the documents released to date on the topic. September 21, 2015 Release The Department of Justice has released additional information contained within Inspectors General reports on the President’s Surveillance Program (PSP). The additional information concerns the presidential documents that authorized the inception and implementation of the program. The release today supplements the IC on the Record posting of April 25, 2015, wherein…
According to Wikipedia: Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is a United States Army soldier who was convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after releasing the largest set of classified documents ever leaked to the public. Manning was sentenced in August 2013 to 35 years confinement with the possibility of parole in eight years, and to be dishonorably discharged from the Army. Manning is a trans woman who, in a statement the day after sentencing, said she had felt female since childhood, wanted to be known as Chelsea, and…
In 2009, the United States introduced a new version of the $100 bill. Below, is a description from Wikipedia about the background to the bill: The United States one hundred-dollar bill ($100) is a denomination of United States currency featuring statesman, inventor, diplomat and American founding father Benjamin Franklin on the obverse of the bill. On the reverse of the banknote is an image of Independence Hall. The $100 bill is the largest denomination that has been printed since July 13, 1969, when the denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 were retired. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing says…