Author: John Greenewald

Background This is the U.S. Cyber Command Situational Awareness Report on the Wikileaks release of classified information. Document Archive WikiLeaks Release of Classified Documents from a Department of State Database – Situational Awareness Report 2010-SA-0025 [8 Pages, 3.5MB] – This version was released after a 2020 Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request. WikiLeaks Release of Classified Documents from a Department of State Database – Situational Awareness Report 2010-SA-0025 – HIGHLIGHTED VERSION – [8 Pages, 3.5MB] – This version was released after a 2020 Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request. Archived Versions WlkiLeaks Release of Classified Documents from a Department of State Database…

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Background The following are the released editions of the NRO’s internal publication, The RECON. More dates have been requested, and will be added when they are released. Declassified Documents  The RECON issues, 4/20/09, 5/4/09, 5/15/09, 6/01/09 [67 Pages, 10.34MB  The RECON issues all of 2008 [23 Pages, 0.8MB]  The RECON issues from 09/2001 through 01/2002 [124 Pages, 11.24MB]  The RECON issues all of 2003 [327 Pages, 37MB] – This PDF file has bookmarks that mark every date issue discernible from the release.

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Background Back in 1998, I requested from the CIA all records relating to the death of Princess Diana. I was surprised, at the time, the CIA would neither confirm, nor deny, the existence of records. This is also called a “Glomar Response.” Given the conspiracy theories surrounding her death – I felt that was rather strange. There was nothing I could do to fight it, however, I tried again two decades later in 2018. After a little more than two years after that, I asked the CIA for a status of the request. To my surprise, they said they had…

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Background On October 2, 2012, Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie was shot and killed when he and two other agents responded to a sensor that went off a few miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border near Naco, Arizona. A second agent was wounded, but survived. It was said officially that Ivie’s death was “friendly fire” and not by the Mexican drug cartels or someone from across the border. However, it has been rumored that Ivie was in a shootout, and the guns used could be linked to the Fast & Furious gun running program that were confirmed to have killed…

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Background The Department of Justice (Department) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) investigated allegations that in 2007-2008, prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida (USAO) improperly resolved a federal investigation into the criminal conduct of Jeffrey Epstein by negotiating and executing a federal non-prosecution agreement (NPA). The NPA was intended to end a federal investigation into allegations that Epstein engaged in illegal sexual activity with girls. OPR also investigated whether USAO prosecutors committed professional misconduct by failing to consult with victims of Epstein’s crimes before the NPA was signed or by misleading victims regarding the status…

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