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…
Author: John Greenewald
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.…
Background In January of 2019, a list of 38 reports made under (or connected with) the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program better known as AATIP, was released. It contained research into “invisibility cloaking” which sparked a huge amount of media and public interest. On January 31, 2019, George Knapp, investigative reporter with KLAS Las Vegas ran an interview with Harry Reid which made reference to the “invisibility cloaking” in the story. I decided to scour my archive of FOIA documents, along with other military and government resources, and discovered quite a bit of research done outside of AATIP, on the…