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from the  war-on-whistleblowers,-leakers,-and-FOIA-records-requesters  dept MuckRock has been digging into a large pile of declassified CIA documents for the past several months and has come up with some surprising finds. It recently liberated nearly 13 million pages of CIA documents -- known as the CREST archive -- via a FOIA lawsuit. Since this monumental release, MuckRock has covered everything from a CIA report on an Italian pasta shortage to deeper, darker topics like a CIA asset in Mexico being linked to a long list of atrocities. Read More::  US Army Working On A Device That Can Assess Traumatic Brain Injury On The Battlefield Digging through the CIA's archives has dug up dirt on other agencies as well. Emma Best details another MuckRock/CIA gem -- one that shows the NSA attempting to prosecute a journalist for obtaining documents via FOIA requests. Declassified documents in the Central Intelligence Agency’s archives show that while the CIA was looking to include t...

John F. Kennedy's motorcade approximately one minute before he is fatally shot along Elm St. on Dealey Plaza Thousands of previously classified files related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination have been released. They detail things like Lee Harvey Oswald's activities leading up to the shooting, bizarre tip-offs before Kennedy's and Oswald's deaths, and the CIA's efforts to overthrow Fidel Castro. President Donald Trump on Thursday approved the release of more than 2,800 previously classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. Read More:: Pentagon Makes SHOCK Announcement About Women In Military, People TICKE The trove of documents, released late on Thursday by the National Archives, offer up an array of details around the assassination itself, the ensuing investigation, and the government's foreign-policy endeavors. The KKK said it had "documented proof" that Lyndon B. Johnson was a member. A ...

U.S. President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally ride in a liousine moments before Kennedy was assassinated, in Dallas, Texas November 22, 1963. Walt Cisco/Dallas Morning News/Handout/File Photo via REUTERS President Donald Trump ordered the release on Thursday of some secret documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John Kennedy but held some back for further review after entreaties from the FBI and the CIA, senior White House officials said. ::Also Read:: Hillary Campaign, DNC Accused Of Violating Election Law With Dossier Payments Trump’s decision meant the National Archives will shortly release 2,800 previously secret documents with more to follow. He ordered a 180-day review be held so that government agencies could look again at the remaining documents and justify why any should be withheld, the officials said. ::Most Read:: The Most Bizarre, Outlandish Documents From The Newly Released JFK Files The officials, who brief...

The program, authorised under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, allows US spy agencies to eavesdrop on and store vast amounts of digital communications from foreign suspects living outside the United States. Former US intelligence officials who worked for both Republican and Democratic presidents urged Congress on Monday to renew an internet surveillance program they said has stopped terrorist plots and helped policymakers steer through international crises. ::Also Read::   U.S Air Force preparing B-52 bombers for 24-hour alert status The program, authorised under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, allows US spy agencies to eavesdrop on and store vast amounts of digital communications from foreign suspects living outside the United States. It will expire on December 31 if Congress does not act. "We have personally reported to our Presidents - Republican and Democratic - and to the Congress details of plots disrupted based on informati...