Every federal agency has a records retention schedule which stipulates how long certain records are kept by the agency. These are useful to know how long records are kept, and what may, or may not, be available. Below you will find the ...
Tag Archives: FOIA
The Black Vault References in Official Documents
For fun, I thought it would be interesting to see if, at all, the United States Government or Military references or uses The Black Vault. I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a few documents referencing The Black Vault, the archive, and ...
Significant FOIA Requests – Department Level Interest Lists
Department of Defense FOIA offices are prohibited from responding to “significant” FOIA requests having “departmental level interest” without approval from the Pentagon, according to a policy document obtained by Cause of Action from the DoD’s ...
DoD Document Collections
Background The following 18 CD-ROMs were created by the DoD, when they transferred their FOIA Reading Room to their online Reading Room — when the collections were digitized. The Black Vault has archived the entire 18 CD set below. ...