Background I was curious how much some agencies spent, in regards to advertising on social networks. So, in October of 2016, I filed to the Social Security Administration (SSA) for records pertaining to this, and was surprised to see a huge influx in spending in 2015 compared to the other years released. According to the SSA’s website: “Social Security has provided financial protection for our nation’s people for over 80 years. Chances are, you either receive Social Security benefits or know someone who does. With retirement, disability, and survivors benefits, Social Security is one of the most successful anti-poverty programs…
Author: John Greenewald
Background An Aviat A-1C Husky, flown by actor Harrison Ford, was involved in an incident during landing at Orange County-John Wayne Airport, California. The pilot had been cleared to land on runway 20L but touched down on the parallel taxiway C instead. On final approach the aircraft passed over American Airlines flight AA1456 that was taxiing on taxiway L for takeoff on a flight to Dallas, Texas. Flight AA1456 was a Boeing 737-800, N959NN, with 110 passengers and a six crew members on board. Flight tracking website Flightradar24 shows a calibrated altitude of 125 feet as the aircraft overflew taxiway…
Background The Inspection Service Manual (ISM) is official policy of the United States Postal Inspection Service. The ISM is maintained in an electronic format. The ISM is available to all Inspection Service personnel. The ISM is a restricted document and is not available for distribution outside of the Postal lnspection Service without the prior written approval of the Inspection Service Chief Counsel. In April of 2015, I requested under the FOIA the entire manual. Sadly, it is quite lengthy, and required costs for review and reproduction, so I amended my request to include just the Table of Contents and References…
Background Five years of images from the front left hazard avoidance camera (Hazcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover were used to create this time-lapse movie. The inset map shows the rover’s location in Mars’ Gale Crater. Each image is labeled with the date it was taken, and its corresponding sol (Martian day), along with information about the rover’s location at the time.
Background Excerpt: According to Noah Webster, secret is defined as, “kept from public knowledge or from the knowledge of certain persons•and service is shown to be, employment, especially public employment. This is exactly what the original Secret Service was: an organization of spies which operated during the Civil War at the direction of the United States Government under the ultimate control of the Honorable Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of State and then Secretary of War. This use of spies during times of confrontation between factions was not a new idea. In fact the idea may have had divine inspiration, as the…