Margot Williams

New JFK Files Are Now Searchable at Mary Ferrell Foundation Leading JFK site enables what the National Archives does not: quick and easy search of the new records related to JFK's assassination

Note to #searchers, #archivists, #librarians
New #JFKFiles Are Now Searchable at @maryferrellorg & enables what the @USNatArchives does not: quick and easy search of the new records related to #JFKAssassination #JFKFacts open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts... open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...

Come on down to the House Visitor Center room 210 tomorrow 2pm for @realannapaulina hearing on the #Declassification of the #JFKFiles! Or watch on #Oversight comm, site. Witnesses include @TheOliverStone & @jeffersonmorley #JFKFacts #FreeTheFiles

Why I can’t read food blogs;
“Cottage cheese has taken the world by storm this year and for good reason.”

The list at the link above? No DC properties are on it.. Is there another list?

Federal Court Blocks Transfer of Guantánamo Convict to Prison in Iraq The Iraqi prisoner had sued the Biden administration, saying he would be at risk for abuse at a prison in his homeland.

Federal Court Blocks Transfer of #Guantánamo Convict to Prison in Iraq
...while the judge considered the prisoner’s claim that he would be at risk for abuse and inadequate health care there.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/guantanamo-iraq-transfer-court.html?smid=bs-share

Google Alerts to the Past Old news is good news?

On Desk Set Research, I ask about #GoogleAlerts and note the 23rd anniversary of #Guantanamo detention open.substack.com/pub/margotwi...

GIJN Webinar: How to Acquire Free Satellite Imagery for Your Investigations This GIJN webinar brings together leading experts to share practical advice and tips on navigating this often-overwhelming field. Attendees will learn the best platforms and techniques for obtaining f...

Satellite imagery is a vital tool for covering everything from war zones to environmental disasters, but too often small newsrooms think it's too time-consuming or expensive to get.
Not true! Come to @gijn.org's webinar on 1/27 to learn how to access—easily, & for free—this key reporting resource.

JFK Live Tonight: The Curious Case of Oswald in Helsinki Rami Smatt, JFK researcher, will talk about what he found in the recently declassified Finnish intelligence service file on Lee Harvey Oswald.

Tonight on the #JFKFacts podcast, the author of this Finland story will discuss.
JFK Live Tonight: The Curious Case of Oswald in Helsinki
Rami Smatt, JFK researcher, will talk about what he found in the recently declassified Finnish intelligence service file
jfkfacts.substack.com/p/jfk-live-t...

The Finland File: Asked How Did Oswald Get to Helsinki? The Finnish intelligence service recently declassified its file on the accused assassin. It sheds new light on an old question.

The declassification of a file on Oswald compiled by the Finnish intelligence service (SUPO) in December 2023 (first reported in English on JFK Facts) sheds new light on Oswald’s time in Helsinki. You can download it here. #JFKFacts
open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...

Kash Patel and the Future of the FBI Trump's nominee for FBI director raises questions about whether his leadership will reform the agency or deepen its politicization.

I’m recommending this new SubStack weekly feature from Trevor Aaronson, a journalist with great knowledge of the #FBI and national security issues. This will be a useful guide to the upcoming changes in the new administration.
open.substack.com/pub/trevoraa...

Hip-hop icon wants to 'figure out who killed JFK' An all-time great rapper has expressed his interest in the Kennedy assassination in some surprising ways

happy new year #JFKFacts
open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...

A New Year remarked by a #Freelancer:
Daily emails and messages are no longer from organizations that “need me” for projects and work, but the same organizations that “need me” to give them money.

Singin' in the Public Domain event tile, featuring the Lockette, expressing open content.

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

⚓️ Popeye
🕵️ The Maltese Falcon
📖 The Sound and the Fury
🇮🇹 A Farewell to Arms
🏠️ A Room of One's Own
🙌 Hallelujah
🎺 Bolero
and many more!

🧵👇

Why the CIA Faces Persistent Mistrust in JFK's Assassination Challenging the Narrative: Gus Russo Oversimplifies Public Suspicion of the CIA as KGB Propaganda

open.substack.com/pub/jfkfacts...

Stephen Grey, Dana Priest, Julie Tate, Scott Shane

Our Man in Damascus: When Syria Deployed Its Torture Chambers and Torturers for the CIA With Bashar al-Assad having fled Damascus to one of his 20 luxury suites in Russia (valued at $30 million), it is worth taking note of a time, not that long ago, when Assad was on more amicable terms ...

The #CIA jets flew detainees to black sites, including in #Syria torture prisons. Those of us who broke those stories in the years after 9/11: are you on #Bluesky? www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/12/o...

Offshore Leaks Database API Launch - YouTube We're thrilled to announce the official launch of the Offshore Leaks Database API. This brand new tool will transform how you access, explore, and utilize ou...

The @icij.org has unveiled a new API to enhance its Offshore Leaks Database, a critical tool in their groundbreaking investigations.

ICIJ's @pirhoo.com will lead a live training session to demonstrate the tool’s capabilities on Fri, Dec. 13 / 8 AM ET: https://twp.ai/1KbIy6

Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...

DDoSecrets launches searchable library to sort through millions of hacked and leaked files The 'Library of Leaks' hosts over 10 million files.

DDoSecrets launches searchable library to sort through millions of hacked and leaked files
The ‘Library of Leaks’ hosts over 10 million files. www.dailydot.com/debug/ddosec...

Awesome!

A McDonald's in Altoona Alleged Assassin Arrested

Clues from a #Goodreads account #Luigi open.substack.com/pub/american...

Revisiting 'American ISIS' After the Fall of Syria's Brutal Regime The collapse of Bashar al-Assad's government comes after 13 years of civil war. My 2021 Audible series tells part of that history.

Trevor's podcast revealed an inside look at the Syrian civil war from a deceased American member of ISIS.
Revisiting 'American ISIS' After the Fall of Syria's Brutal Regime open.substack.com/pub/trevoraa...

Historian Lee Mordechai has compiled, in English and Hebrew, this database of the genocide in Gaza: witnessing-the-gaza-war.com

My dear friend Angela was working the night shift research desk at the Time Inc News Research department on the night John Lennon was murdered. I don't know how she handled the work with all the tears.

Time Magazine cover, headlined, "When the Music Died: John Lennon." Image of John Lennon.

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.

John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80

Don't destroy the records in bases throughout Syria - seize them. Publish them. Open the servers up.

Assad has documented his crimes. Let the world see.

Desk Set Research | Margot Williams | Substack News research and factchecking. Click to read Desk Set Research, by Margot Williams, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

By the way, I am (sporadically) at Desk Ser Research open.substack.com/pub/margotwi...
Still wondering if it’s worth sharing the skills

You may not remember how difficult it was to get a researcher’s name on a story credit line. I do, because I had to fight for it.
But it still seems that, although stories now regularly have 4 to 6 byline names, a “researcher” credit still at best a “tagline.”
No surprise then, that layoff.

Sounds more James Bond-like. Spy talk. Secrets. Masculine.
So much not the library ladies with eyeglasses on chains around our necks.
Good choice, guys!

So it seems, to me, that we (and our $$ budgets) have been replaced by #OSINT (a military/intelligence community term) which Iearned while investigating the #SnowdenLeak at #TheIntercept. There are OSINT, SIGINT, GEOINT, HUMINT, etc. This is military talk.
Open Source Intelligence? It’s #RESEARCH.