In May 2016, the Justice Department held an Advanced Freedom of Information Act Seminar for FOIA personnel from across the government. These are the materials that were distributed or presented.
The DEA's recent decision to keep marijuana in the same legal category as heroin relied heavily on two reports from the Food and Drug Administration. Those documents are here, along with related material.
Before he was president of the International Olympic Committee for over 20 years, Juan Antonio Samaranch was a uniformed fascist official in Franco's Spain. Here are the photos.
A 227-page guide to laws dealing with the confiscation of private property just disappeared from the DOJ's website, so we brought it back.
1,200 People Were Arrested Then Detained in Pier 57 on a Single Day During the 2004 Republican National Convention. One couple managed to smuggle out videos and photos.
The gargantuan report on the UK's involvement in the Iraq invasion/war was published as 58 separate PDF files. Here it is in one volume.
Over a thousand US government websites went offline over a ten-year period. Here are the links to archived versions.
Unsealed evidence photos take us inside the freezing, filthy detention centers in Arizona where immigrants are held.
A smattering of documents I've found online recently. Electronic surveillance, undercover police work, chemical warfare, biometrics, posters, Fort Meade, phone phreaking, and more.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder's Office has released 380,000 pages of state-level emails and other internal documents about Flint water. We've gathered them in one place.
Missing manuals from America's oldest federal law-enforcement agency, including "A Law Enforcement Guide to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service" and "Postal Inspector Entrance Examination Preparation Guide"
A towering figure of 20th-century literature, modernist poet, editor, and critic Ezra Pound lived in Rome during WWII and broadcast propaganda for Mussolini. The DOJ's Criminal Division prosecuted him for treason. This is their file on him.
The Department of Justice coordinates the government's confiscation of private assets. These annual reports were in an archive on Justice's website. Now they're not.
NORAD and the US Northern Command are tasked primarily with monitoring and defending the US and Canada. We have over 140 hours of their radio communications from 9/11, for streaming or download.
The New York Police Department spied on political activists in the 1960s and 1970s. They recently found 1.1 million pages of documents from this program, but there's no telling when or how this treasure trove will be made available to the public. But we do have some specifics about what's there....
Unbelievably, the Pentagon once posted complete audio recordings of the Combatant Status Review Tribunal proceedings of 14 "high-value detainees" at Guantanamo. Those recordings were pulled down in 2009. We have them inside....