Background Peter J. Kadzik was the Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs at the Department of Justice (Department). In that capacity, he was head the Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA), which is responsible for managing the Department’s relationships with Congress, and advancing its interests on Capitol Hill. OLA – working closely with the Department’s leadership offices, law enforcement components, U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, litigating divisions, and grant-making components – advises and assists Department leadership on a wide variety of congressional matters; advocates for the Department’s legislative priorities; and responds to congressional inquiries and oversight requests. OLA also prepares Department witnesses for…
Author: John Greenewald
In February 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) conducted a raid on the Waco Branch Davidian compound in Texas, an event that became known as the “longest shootout in law enforcement history.” A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by The Black Vault led to the release of a PowerPoint presentation detailing the lessons learned from this raid. The presentation, prepared by the U.S. Department of Justice and the ATF, offers a comprehensive analysis of the planning, execution, and aftermath of the operation. The raid, known as Operation Trojan Horse, involved 137 ATF employees, including…
The Black Vault attempted to get a CIA document that has been shrouded in secrecy for decades further declassified. Although no redactions were lifted in the process, it revealed that even more information by the CIA is withheld on a UFO case that suggests a technology beyond known human capability at the time. Originally disclosed in 1978, the “Information Report” originally classified “Confidential” has a subject header of “Unusual Flying Object Sightings and Attendant Scientific Activity”. It had multiple, but relatively minimal, redactions when the single page was originally released. In January 2020, The Black Vault filed a Mandatory Declassification…
The following is an official DoD transcript of the private/invite-only press briefing held with Acting AARO Director Tim Phillips on March 6, 2024. This was an invite-only briefing, and in-person, and multiple news outlets that cover this topic were either denied to listen-in, or not invited all together. With the publishing of this transcript, we now get an idea about who was invited and who was there. But, contrary to past briefings where various people were invited to, at the very least, listen in, why was that not the case here? — STAFF: Good afternoon. Thank you all for coming.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg4FKt2Pe7I Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) – Volume I Statement by Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder on the Historical Record Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume 1 Last week, the Department of Defense delivered to Congress the initial volume of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office’s Historical Record Report, which reviews the record of the United States government pertaining to unidentified anomalous phenomena, as required by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023. In completing this report, AARO reviewed all official U.S government investigatory efforts since 1945, researched…