Background “The Green Book” is a set of guidelines for agency officials in charge of responding to FOIA requests, specifically about the proper procedures for processing requests for FBI documents or documents from any other agency under the ...
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FOIA & MDR Case Logs
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 ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Records Management User Manual, May 2015
Background This document was requested in August of 2017 by The Black Vault. It was then released on January 18, 2018. The document’s introduction states: “The Records Management User Manual (RM User Manual) provides a detailed ...
FBI Classification Guidebooks
Background In November of 2017, I requested the FBI’s “Classification Guidebook”. This consists of the, “FBI National Security Information Classification Guide” and the, “FBI Automatic Declassification ...
Sensitive Case Reports (SCRs) Regarding FOIA Requests at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Background The below documents were discovered after searching emails for the following keywords: “The Black Vault”, “John Greenewald” etc. The reasoning at that was fairly simple, but I did not expect the discovery ...
