Background The Freedom of Information Act allows any requester to get as FOIA case logs. Below, you will find a list of all FOIA requests and Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) requests made by the public to various agencies. These are very useful to see who is requesting what and can be very useful for ideas! FOIA Case Log Memorandums DoD Memorandum on FOIA Case Logs (10 July 2008) Declassified Case Logs U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) FOIA Case Logs 2010-2011 [2 Pages, 1.5MB] 2016 [2 Pages, 1.5MB] Air Combat Command (ACC) 2012 [100 Pages] Army FOIA Case Logs 2018 [47 Pages, 2MB] 2016 [7…
Author: John Greenewald
After a seven-year effort to obtain information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) through a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR), The Black Vault has finally succeeded in acquiring a previously unreleased document, albeit heavily redacted. Before this release, only brief citations were found in other files, also released to The Black Vault by the FBI. This request (case number 1363960-000), filed on December 16, 2016, asked for a review of the FBI’s Cyber National Threat Assessment for the year 2008, as found in the reference citation above. The document, dated June 22, 2009, is an intelligence assessment by the FBI.…
Safety Oversight Circulars issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are formal documents that provide guidance, information, and recommendations regarding aviation safety. These circulars are part of the FAA’s efforts to promote and improve safety within the aviation industry. Here’s a detailed breakdown of their key aspects: Purpose and Scope: Guidance and Best Practices: They offer guidance and best practices to aviation operators, manufacturers, and other stakeholders on how to comply with regulations and enhance safety. Information Sharing: Circulars serve as a means for the FAA to share important safety information, including findings from safety studies, research outcomes, and lessons…
UPDATE: This story was originally published on May 25, 2023. However, on April 3, 2024, this story was updated with a FOIA appeal win, which produced the briefing card, with the relevant redactions lifted. That update appears below the article. The Department of Defense released another ‘Briefing Card’ about the AOIMSG, a DoD effort previously studying UFOs. This document contains intriguing redactions under exemption (b)(5) and extra information that were absent in previous releases of the same record. A question in the ‘Questions and Answers’ section and an entire section under ‘Additional Background Information (Not for release)’ have been redacted,…
In March of 2018, The Black Vault filed a FOIA request (case 1401549-000) to the FBI for the following: “… all e-mails sent to or from, Director of the FBI James Comey, which contain the word ‘TRUMP’. I ask that you conduct a search for records dating from 1/1/16 to 5/9/17.” The request was originally rejected as being too broad, so an appeal was submitted (case DOJ-AP-2018-005587) on May 25, 2018. There was no final response received from this case, however, nearly 1,600 pages were released on April 2024 relating to the original filing. In essence, the appeal was likely…