Background Each year, government agencies submit an annual “Congressional Budget Justification” book that outlines the programs and projects for that agency, and justifies the budget that they are requesting. For some agencies, they are easy to obtain. For others? Not so much. Below is a growing archive of different agencies, and their respective years. Declassified Documents National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Congressional Budget Justification – 2018 – Denied IN FULL, I appealed and lost. This is the entire case file for the FOIA case and appeal [45 Pages, 3.4MB] National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Congressional Budget Justification – 2015-2016 – Denied…
Author: John Greenewald
Background According to this article: “GNI (Global Network Intelligence) and IW (Information Warfare) are two acronyms that have become part of NSA’s language over the past couple of years. Both convey new and comprehensive activities that are critical to NSA’s future and both dramatically affect the Agency’s offensive (SIGINT) and defensive (INFOSEC) missions. The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview of the background and ongoing activities in each area, to explain their interrelationships, and to discuss a few relevant challenges that are of general interest to the NSA workforce.” This record was released previous in heavily redacted…
Background According to the document: “Purpose: To inform the commission of recent discussions with a member of the Dutch Parliament.” I found reference to this document, which was unnamed, but it was classified. I filed a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) request on October 11, 2016, and it was finally released on July 26, 2018. Document Archive Nuclear Regulatory Commission Information Report, April 15, 1979, Meeting with Member of Dutch Parliament [4 Pages, 0.9MB] https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/nrc/SECY-79-263.pdf
Background According to the document: The Iraq war is over, but its effects continue. Just what kind of war was the Iraq war? This is still being studied. This paper will limit itself to some views on the “invariable” and “variables” of the war. Document Archive The Iraq War — The Invariable and the Variable, March 8, 2005 [14 Pages, 2.1MB] https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/inscom/iraqinvariablevariable.pdf
Background Although this document had been released before, in February of 2018, I requested a “Mandatory Declassification Review” (MDR) of the record to see if I could get some of the blacked out information released. Although it wasn’t much, once the MDR was completed in August of 2018, it had a little less redaction. I will still consider that a win! Document Archive NSA and the Supercomputer Industry, Cryptologic Quarterly, Winter 1995 – Vol. 14, No. 4 [12 Pages, 1.4MB] https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/nsa/MDR103541.pdf