This collection comprises of more than 60,000 pages of records often referred to as “snowflakes.” These are generally one-page memos, written by former Secretary of Defense (SecDef) Donald Rumsfeld, asking questions or issuing instructions to his staff during his tenure as SecDef. The Black Vault filed FOIA request 13-F-0376 back in the beginning of 2013, which was later amended to only include a small time frame due to fee reasons. Since then, it remained “processing.” During the same time, the National Security Archive, which deserves the credit for the below release, had filed a FOIA lawsuit to get the “snowflake”…
Author: John Greenewald
In July of 2021, the CDC reversed their guidance for indoor mask wearing, regardless of vaccination status. This caused controversy, because the CDC upon changing the guidance, did not publish the data supporting it. On July 30, 2021, they did. The below is the report which is, according to the CDC, what played a role in their viewpoint change. According to the report: In July 2021, following multiple large public events in a Barnstable County, Massachusetts, town, 469 COVID-19 cases were identified among Massachusetts residents who had traveled to the town during July 3–17; 346 (74%) occurred in fully vaccinated…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent executive agency of the United States federal government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. The order establishing the EPA was ratified by committee hearings in the House and Senate. The agency is led by its administrator, who is appointed by the president and approved by the Senate. Below, you will find e-mails on two officials; Christopher Grundler, Director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality and Justin…
“The financial transactions that supported the 11 September attacks in many ways reflected the overall nature of the operation, relying on ostensibly legitimate activities carried out in the United States and Western Europe over the course of more than two years. The hijackers and their financial facilitators appear to have been well coached by an organizational leadership with lengthy experience in moving funds unobtrusively. In the pre-11 September atmosphere, the plotters’ clean personal histories and close adherence to an unobtrusive system of financial interaction that supported the plot could not-absent additional cause for suspicion have alerted US officials or financial…
UPDATE: The original article was published July 23, 2021. At this time, only NASA documents had been released. It would take an additional nearly 3 years for more records to come to light, ultimately reviewed and released by Space Command (SPACECOM). Those pages are now available below. The original article is left untouched. A NEW article is posted here. The additional documents are archived here for reference, in addition to the new article. https://youtu.be/pzUeQ7gt-ts On April 23, 2021, at 5:49 a.m, a Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center,…