Three Files, One Archive, a Specific Date The paperwork arrived in public view on March 15, 2024, when John Greenewald of The Black Vault published a consolidated document archive covering Saudi nationals who departed the United States in the days following September 11, 2001. Three distinct records constitute the set. The first is a 40-page … Read more
What the Record Actually Is The joint analytical report produced by Ukraine’s Cyber Incidents Response Operational Centre (CIROC, a unit within the State Cyber Protection Centre of Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection, abbreviated SSSCIP) and Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 Threat Intelligence team carries a December 2023 publication date. The two … Read more
The Publication The National Security Archive at George Washington University has released English-language volumes of Anatoly Chernyaev’s private diary each May 25 since 2012, choosing that date because it is also Chernyaev’s birthday. On May 25, 2023, the series reached the 1983 volume, translated by Anna Melyakova and described by the Archive as appearing in … Read more
Stuttgart, March 16, 2023 Three items constitute the official documentary record of the Black Sea intercept: a declassified video, a storyboard of still images drawn from the same footage, and a press release. All three were published on March 16, 2023, by U.S. European Command, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. These documents are what the record … Read more
The Football’s Legal Problem What the National Security Archive Published The National Security Archive is an independent research institute at George Washington University. It collects declassified records, primarily through Freedom of Information Act requests, and makes them publicly available. On July 18, 2023, the Archive published Electronic Briefing Book No. 834, edited by senior analyst … Read more
A Session That Reached the Public Through One Door The fullest public account of where America’s UAP investigation stood at the end of 2022 came not through a government press release, but through a transcript that a single invited journalist chose to publish. On December 16, 2022, the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) held … Read more
Three Letters and a Statement In June 2023, the Department of Defense’s Initial Denial Authority issued a response to FOIA case 23-F-0389, filed by John Greenewald of The Black Vault. The request targeted DoD records related to an image publicly known as the “Mosul Orb.” All responsive records were withheld under three statutory exemptions in … Read more
Three Signatures, One Page The instrument is two pages. Three signatures appear at the bottom, one for each of the FMCSA’s regional service centers: Taft Kelly for the Eastern, Darrell L. Ruban for the Southern, Scott G. Hernandez for the Western. Regional Emergency Declaration No. 2021-002, issued under 49 CFR ยง 390.23 (the federal rule … Read more
A Standing Order, Not a Private Impulse The document existed because a form was due. Not memoir, not commemoration: William Beatty, surgeon of HMS Victory, was fulfilling a standing obligation when he dated the wounded list on 22 October 1805, the day after the Battle of Trafalgar. The Sick and Hurt Board, the Royal Navy … Read more
Certificate of Destruction FOI reference CAS-320977, published on The National Archives’ disclosure portal on March 3, 2026, runs to a modest exchange: a question submitted by an unnamed requester and a response issued by The National Archives, with no named official credited on either side. The full text is in the public domain, and the … Read more
