A huge loss. Bill Burr's commitments to transparency, accountability, knowledge, and mentorship had no limits. His EBBs always amazed me. Always FOIA, MDR, and appeal. @nsarchive.bsky.social

Nice to see my article for @nsarchive.bsky.social on the killing of Che Guevara cited by the New York Times. Not as excited to see the U.S. continue to engage in "covert" regime change operations. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Doyle & Dorfman @nsarchive.bsky.social continue amazing work as justice seekers for Ayotzinapa."the Chicago story within the Ayotzinapa case offers a cautionary tale about how drug war considerations can obscure and overwhelm the demand for accountability and justice for human rights."

Great work on what you can find when you delve into the weeds of the JFK Assassination files.

Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller (1952) was frustrated that the U.S. agreed to a rules-based international order that prohibits intervention into the domestic affairs of other states.

In 1952 the Psychological Strategy Board assessed that U.S. domestic policies on race relations, restrictive immigration, and tariffs were psychologically damaging to U.S. interests.

Flying Saucers, Oh my! Psychological Strategy Board staff minutes

If this intelligence assessment stands, this has the potential for a major clash between Trump and Netanyahu. Two individuals who are incapable of taking the blame for any kind of failure.

Arsenal play Barcelona in the UWCL Final tomorrow at 5pm at the Estádio Jose Alvalade. Full match preview 👇🏻🔴⚪️

Here is my latest article with @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the @nsarchive.bsky.social on the U.S. role in the 1963 coup and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. We included some eye-popping documents in this one. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

A potential South Asian Cuban Missile Crisis...

Major airspace closures for civil aviation announced by both Pakistan (all airspace) and India (along the border with Pakistan) in the last few hours. We're possibly about to witness the start of the most intense and broad-spectrum direct conflict between two nuclear-armed states ever.

New Book Revisits Murder of Two U.S. Citizens After Chilean Military Coup nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Here is my new article (with Peter Kornbluh) for @nsarchive.bsky.social on more covert action secrets in the Kennedy files. The article discusses CIA covert ops in Brazil, British Guiana, Chile, Congo, Haiti, Japan, Italy, and more. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Peter Kornbluh from the @nsarchive.bsky.social and I were interviewed for this week's episode of the History as it Happens podcast. We discuss the JFK files and CIA covert operations. You can listen to it for free here: historyasithappens.libsyn.com/the-jfk-files

The CIA took over an FBI monitoring post targeting the United Nations in 1967, according to newly declassified "Family Jewels" documents.

It was great to be interviewed for this @nytimes.com article on our work at the @nsarchive.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

Here is my latest EBB with @nsarchive.bsky.social . An overnight team effort to find six great documents that reveal new CIA covert ops and unknown details of famous operations. More to come...

This is similar to the rallying cry "Je suis Charlie.” Either you support free speech or you don’t. Either you support due process or you don’t. We are all in this together, regardless of our opinions or the content of our speech.

Trump is not isolationist, he is an aggressive unilateralist

I was literally just in contact with JFKL over some docs I was interested in. @lucatrenta.bsky.social I hope Ford library isn't next. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

Meloni faces questions after Italy frees Libyan general accused of war crimes

Twelve years ago a federal appeals court ruled that the CIA could memory-hole a photo of a prisoner whom the CIA had tortured because the photo might reveal something about how the CIA had tortured him. Remembered that when I read this @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social story.

Now updated with a link to one of the detainee's self portraits of his torture, as shown to a jury at his sentencing trial.

Great piece @christinalamb.bsky.social on investigations into the Assad regime's crimes and CIJA's work. Wiley thinks Putin will send #Assad back to 🇸🇾 within 3 years. I doubt this will happen under Putin. When the regime changes in Moscow, this will become possible. www.thetimes.com/article/939e...

I agree, Wray should have forced Trump's hand. I don't think he should have fought it all the way to SCOTUS though given the current court.

Anti-accountability norm

Sobering thread on the long shadow of economic sanctions

The new government of the post-Assad #Syria would do well to accede to the ICC Statute and refer its situation to the ICC Prosecutor as soon as possible. Before then, it should grant the Court jurisdiction over the situation in Syria since 2011 under article 12(3) of the Statute.

With so many fleeing Assad's brutal regime in #Syria, I hope open source investigators are watching for opportunities to scoop up perpetrators in countries where universal jurisdiction can be exercised. Also, the next gov't should refer itself to the #ICC. It's about time... 🤞

I wish journalists who interviewed Trump about mass-deportations would ask him why, if he plans to prioritize "criminals," he did literally the opposite last time he was president. Trump's ICE deprioritized serious criminals, and filled jails with asylum-seekers instead. www.cato.org/blog/trump-r...

The images from Sednaya Prison are yet another recent harrowing reminder of why we need international criminal law and courts.

History must never forget the depths of depravity and inhumanity that were Assad's prisons and the horror that they wrought upon Syrian society. Let freedom now also aspire to bring justice.

Xenophobia is a tool of the powerful that targets the weak. This article highlights the real victims of our inhumane immigration system: immigrants.

France has a warrant out for Bashar al-Assad’s arrest. The primary legal argument against the warrant (albeit one that had thus far failed in the French courts) had been that he was Syria’s sitting head of state. That argument terminates w/ his presidency. www.justiceinitiative.org/newsroom/fre...

Hope this is correct. Assad and Russia gone from Syria would be fantastic news. Hope Assad is somehow placed before a criminal tribunal as unlikely as that seems (then again, six months ago, no one expected Assad to fall).

My heart is so full seeing Syrians celebrating, statues toppled, torture cells opened, Russians fleeing. Syria has so much uncertainty still ahead, but would never ever be free under the butcher & war criminal Assad. Hearing friends talk of being able to go back to see their homes again at last 😭🥰

Can't wait for this. I loved the article 'manipulating friends.'

A "targeted killing"? I suppose that's what happens when the press becomes so used to using U.S. government euphemisms/propaganda like "targeted killings" or "enhanced interrogation techniques." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Time to expedite these files. Even if it means the FOIA appeal I just filed for 7,000+ pages of CIA legal docs is slowed down.

Latin American soft balancing against the U.S. is picking up steam. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/w...

The politics of leaking are always fascinating and fun to watch

Is Trump trying to make us nostalgic for Hoover?

Given U.S. legal doctrine, it is almost impossible to think of a case when the U.S. is not acting in self-defense. Pretty soon the U.S. will claim collective self-defense with the clouds, oceans, and rivers that surround it.

What I gather from accounts I trust on X is that a coup attempt led by Maher al-Assad, Bashar's brother, is under way in Damascus

Statement by the International Criminal Court's Presidency on threats against the judges and other elected officials. It is unusual for the ICC Presidency to issue such statements, which is primarily the job of the Assembly and States Parties. This is a sign they are not doing enough to counter

A step forward: Chile, Costa Rica, Spain, France, Luxembourg and Mexico submitted a referral today to the ICC in the situation of Afghanistan, citing the worsening conditions and the seriousness of the situation for women and girls. www.minrel.gob.cl/noticias-ant...

I imagine these proponents of selective accountability are assuming Putin doesn't speak French.

Great insight on the strategic choice of the U.S. to 'abstain' in the approval of international loans to Peru for its environmentally catastrophic, corruption-riddled, and indigenous rights thwarting, Camisea Gas Pipeline project.

The implied, unitary, and plenary Imperial Presidency