Background Each month, the USDA publishes the MyUSDA newsletter. Although many have been published online, it appears the USDA stopped in March of 2017 from posting them publicly. Below, you will find the newsletters never posted by the USDA. Document Archive MyUSDA Newsletters – United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) May 2017 – October 2017 [43 Pages, 9.5MB] https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/usda/2018-DA-04414-F.pdf
Author: John Greenewald
Background / Excerpt The American electoral process retains many vestiges reflecting its eighteenth century origins. In the age of supersonic transport and email, U.S. citizens select their national leadership on a timetable derived from the speed of carriages and town criers. In the past, in the transition periods following elections, the Central Intelligence Agency has been the manager for general orientations about the foreign intelligence community and for specific, classified briefings on topics of concern to the incoming administration. In 2000 the National Security Agency, for the first time, decided to engage more actively in the presidential transition briefing process. The issues for NSA were not small. For those in the new administration for…
Background This video was declassified and released to The Black Vault in NRO Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Case F-2017-00169 and F-2017-00170. Both cases were answered with a single response and release of two videos — Hexagon: Sentinel of Liberty and Gambit: Eye of the Eagle. Although released before, these videos were at a higher resolution than previously released. Document Archive Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request Response:
Background This video was declassified and released to The Black Vault in NRO Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Case F-2017-00169 and F-2017-00170. Both cases were answered with a single response and release of two videos — Hexagon: Sentinel of Liberty and Gambit: Eye of the Eagle. Although released before, these videos were at a higher resolution than previously released. Document Archive Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request Response:
Background The United States Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is an independent agency within the executive branch of the U.S. Federal Government which is responsible for directing executive branch policies relating to the prevention of conflict of interest on the part of Federal executive branch officers and employees. Under the Ethics in Government Act, this agency was originally part of the Office of Personnel Management from 1978 until it separated in 1989. On November 20, 2016, in a rare occurrence, the OGE tweeted to President-elect Donald Trump about his decisions about divesting in his business to avoid conflicts of interest.…