Terrorism

TOPOFF Operations, US Department of Homeland Security

Background The Top Officials Exercise (TOPOFF) is a congressionally mandated biennial cycle of seminars, planning events, and national exercises designed…

August 20, 2017

The Evolution of Warfare, the Laws of War, and the Ethical Implications of U.S. Detainee Policy in the Global War on Terror and Beyond, June 2006

Background Extract from the thesis: The atrocities committed by American GIs at Abu Ghraib shocked the collective moral conscience of…

July 11, 2017

Threat Assessment and Security Plan for the Attorney General, Undated circa early 2001

Background Although controversial due to the fact it was paid for by tax payers, Attorney General John Ashcroft used to…

July 3, 2017

FBI Atlanta Intelligence Note from Domain Management: Terrorism and Counterintelligence Threat, September 8, 2009

Background I found reference to the following document, having been released due to an ACLU FOIA lawsuit in 2011. Since…

June 11, 2017

A Chronology of Terrorist Attacks and Other Criminal Actions Against Maritime Targets, September 1983 RAND Study

Background As part of its continuing research on subnational conflict, The Rand Corporation has compiled a number of chronologies of…

March 31, 2017

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Communication with Senators John McCain and Carl Levin re: Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Background Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaevwas a terrorist who, with his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planted bombs at the Boston Marathon on April…

December 28, 2016

Using Stylistic Analysis to Assess Threat Messages, October 1985

Background Since 1970, various corporations and public agencies in the United States have received extortion messages involving nuclear devices, materials,…

November 19, 2016

Download the Missing 28 Pages from the 9/11 Report

Declassified Version of Part Four, Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11,…

July 15, 2016

FBI File: FBI Agent John P. O’Neill (Counter-terrorist agent who died in World Trade Center on 9/11/01)

According to the FBI: Although he escaped from his office in the North Tower after it was struck, he died…

July 6, 2016

Memos on Alleged Saudi-Affiliated Support of the 9/11 Attacks

Background The National Archives released a series of memos written by Sept. 11 Commission staff members, a compilation of numerous…

May 17, 2016