(4) Building on @lucatrenta.bsky.social work, Barr argued that CIA could support foreign coup d'états even if the coup likely resulted in the killing of the foreign head of state (Noriega or now Maduro). This Barr memo is still classified, but it is described by Barr himself and a CIA lawyer
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(3) That Congress' power of the purse had limits and could not prohibit expenditures of the CIA reserve contingencies fund for covert ops nor force the President to notify Congress of covert ops within 48 hours
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(2) that the Posse Comitatus Act which restricted the use of the military for law enforcement purposes did not apply to U.S. operations overseas
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More importantly, it highlights a series of legal opinions that Bill Barr wrote as head of the Office of Legal Counsel that argued (1) that the President could violate international law
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It shows that the CIA was concerned that Noriega might spill the beans on some of the sordid actions that powerful individuals in Washington were involved in.
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The United States and Greenland: Episodes in Nuclear History, 1957-1968 Part II: The B-52 Crash and Its Impact
Washington, D.C., October 15, 2025 - The 1968 crash of a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber near the U.S. Air Force Base in Thule, Greenland, that scattered radioactive plutonium across miles of icefields crea...
Essentially hidden from US history is that a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber crashed in Greenland in 1968, contaminating the site with plutonium.
A @nsarchive.bsky.social post from just three months ago reveals more about the US cover up & how one bomb's missing U-235 fissile core has never been found.
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EPA's December website edits cap off yearlong assault on climate info
Like climate change, the Trump administration’s efforts to remove climate data from government websites feels vast, intangible, and overwhelming.
The EPA deleted information about the human causes of climate change from its website in December, capping off a year long assault by the Trump administration on climate data and the American information ecosystem.
@rsanta.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org
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The Capitol Riot: Documents You Should Read (Sourcebook)
The Capitol Riot: Documents You Should Read (Part 1)
Five years on, the Trump administration is still trying to erase what happened on January 6, 2021.
The @nsarchive.bsky.social’s Capitol Riot Sourcebook shines a light on what the government knew and when, and what it did (and didn’t do) about the insurrection.
nsarchive.gwu.edu/sourcebook/2...
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YouTube video by NewsNation
CIA MKUltra: Mind control experiments, LSD and secret assassination plots | The Truth of the Matter
National Security Archive Editorial Director Michael Evans spoke with Natasha Zouves of @newsnation.bsky.social about CIA behavior control experiments and MKULTRA.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XXG...
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William Burr
1949-2025
Over the course of my half-century academic career, actually over the course of my lifetime, I never met anyone quite like Bill Burr. It’s a cliché to call him one of a kind, but in Bill’s case, it’s true. And that’s unfortunate. Not just the scholarly and public policy communities but also the world would be better off if there were more Bill Burrs. He was wicked smart; he was selfless and unassuming; his commitment to transparency and truth-seeking was boundless; his respect for evidence inspired us all; and above all he was a kind and generous human being.
These attributes made Bill irreplaceable. His countless electronic briefing books accessible to all of us on the National Security Archive’s web site told the hidden story of America’s nuclear history. Once labeled “the Yoda of FOIA,” his publication of thousands of declassified documents was vital to our scholarship. So was Bill’s own scholarship. His Nixon’s Nuclear Specter was an instant classic, and his Kissinger Transcripts was a staple of my “Superpower America” course. And, of course, Bill was extremely active in SHAFR, serving on Council and Diplomatic History’s editorial board and, it seemed to me, attending every annual meeting no matter the location. One of my greatest honors was to join with David Painter to nominate Bill for the Anna Nelson Prize. The last time I saw him was when he stood up to accept it. His body was diminished, but not his mind or soul.
Yet it was during my decade-plus tenure as HAC chair that I observed most unambiguously how one-of-a-kind Bill was....At almost every meeting he was the sole attendee who was not a member of the HAC or Office of the Historian. Drawing on his granular expertise, he held our feet to the fire, asking probing questions about the status of a FRUS volume or a State Department record group, always pushing for more rapid release. I wish I had archived our voluminous offline correspondence. Because of Bill Burr, I was a better HAC ch…
Oh my. News of Bill Burr's death is a gut punch to all who knew him & everyone who relies on declassified US national security records. Once called the Yoda of FOIA, he always had a sparkle in his eyes. All who care about government transparency will continue to benefit from his contributions.
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More on Bill Burr via @nsarchive.bsky.social. What a hero. When Kissinger stole his files rather than giving them to the archives, Burr found copies elsewhere and made them publicly available.
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/2025-12...
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I was deeply saddened to hear that the @nsarchive.bsky.social's Bill Burr has passed away. His relentless FOIA requests have created an invaluable collection of declassified documents for generations of researchers and historians to come. May he rest in peace. nsarchive.gwu.edu/about/staff/...
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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
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Historian--France, Africa, etc. Honorary Researcher Lancaster University CWD, West Africa Analyst, Oxford Analytica. Author of "France's Wars in Chad" https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/frances-wars-in-chad/6B7D8F9C8A81E0A83028C24EA0CF8D28
Loyola University Chicago Public History/LIS MA Student • UIUC Alumnus • Runner • Can recall the most random historical anecdotes
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
est. 1967
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Historian of U.S. foreign relations, human rights, & religion. Associate Professor of History & Director of Museum Studies at Trinity University. Musician and sci fi fan.
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