Author: John Greenewald

The 2020 Bubba Wallace NASCAR Talladega noose incident began when a member of the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports team found what appeared to be a noose in Bubba Wallace’s garage stall at Talladega Superspeedway. This discovery led NASCAR to initiate an investigation. Subsequently, the FBI was involved and, with the help of 15 field agents, they conducted interviews and examined video and photographic evidence. The FBI’s investigation concluded that the noose had been in the garage since at least October 2019, and was therefore not a hate crime targeted at Wallace, who is the only Black driver in the…

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On December 1, 2023, the DoD quietly added three “Case Resolution” reports on the AARO website. This came the same day that Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick retired from the mission, and Timothy A. Phillips became the acting director of the UFO research office. These newly released reports, which are accompanied only by visuals inside the PDF files, are available below: Atmospheric Wake Case Resolution These reports were submitted after three different missions in the Middle East, and the Mediterranean Sea in 2022 and 2023. The reports were filed due to the potential hazard posed to the mission and because the videos…

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The following documents were released by the FBI in FOIA case 1355208-000. The original request was for: “…a copy of records, electronic or otherwise, of all e-mails sent to or from, Director of the FBI James Comey, which contain the word “WIKILEAKS”. I ask that you conduct a search for records dating from 1/1/15 to the date of the processing of this request.” The case took more than 7 years to process, and the released results were admittedly not too interesting. What was more interesting was that they found 160 pages, but only released 17. You can find what was…

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The following documents are communications between the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein and the CIA. Document Archive Senator Dianne Feinstein Communications with the CIA [38 Pages, 9.5MB] – In this Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) release, documents were disclosed that shed light on the communications between the office of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The FOIA request, filed on March 14, 2014, sought to uncover communications from January 1, 2014, through circa March 2013. The CIA, after a comprehensive search, found seven documents, of which two were released in full and five with redactions…

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Background The Central Intelligence Agency was created in 1947 with the signing of the National Security Act by President Harry S. Truman. The act also created a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to serve as head of the United States intelligence community; act as the principal adviser to the President for intelligence matters related to the national security; and serve as head of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 amended the National Security Act to provide for a Director of National Intelligence who would assume some of the roles formerly fulfilled by the…

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