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Amazing work by @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social for @nsarchive.bsky.social on the snatch operation against Panama's Noriega and its implications for the Maduro operation. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Imperial Prerogative: How the Panama Invasion and the “Barr Doctrine” Set the Stage for the Maduro “Snatch” Operation
Washington, D.C., January 16, 2026 - The Justice Department official who wrote the legal opinion determining that President Donald Trump had the constitutional authority to “unilaterally order” the “e...
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January 16, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Amazing work by @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social for @nsarchive.bsky.social on the snatch operation against Panama's Noriega and its implications for the Maduro operation. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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(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
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
(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
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
(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
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
(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
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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.
January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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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Here is my new article for @nsarchive.bsky.social It is based on documents I found at the George H. W. Bush Library that deal with the lead up to the "snatch" operation against Panama's Noriega in 1989 and how that op served as the key precedent for the Maduro op
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Imperial Prerogative: How the Panama Invasion and the “Barr Doctrine” Set the Stage for the Maduro “Snatch” Operation
Washington, D.C., January 16, 2026 - The Justice Department official who wrote the legal opinion determining that President Donald Trump had the constitutional authority to “unilaterally order” the “e...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Here is my new article for @nsarchive.bsky.social It is based on documents I found at the George H. W. Bush Library that deal with the lead up to the "snatch" operation against Panama's Noriega in 1989 and how that op served as the key precedent for the Maduro op
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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The UNFCCC laid the groundwork for Clinton, Obama, and Biden to lead on global climate action.
Now, Trump’s decision to sever ties with the landmark treaty will only further isolate the U.S. on the world stage.
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Now, Trump’s decision to sever ties with the landmark treaty will only further isolate the U.S. on the world stage.
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Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts
Washington, D.C., January 15, 2026 - President Donald Trump’s recent withdrawal from the foundational United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli...
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January 16, 2026 at 3:23 PM
The UNFCCC laid the groundwork for Clinton, Obama, and Biden to lead on global climate action.
Now, Trump’s decision to sever ties with the landmark treaty will only further isolate the U.S. on the world stage.
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Now, Trump’s decision to sever ties with the landmark treaty will only further isolate the U.S. on the world stage.
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Great new EBB today from Dr. Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi on
how the Panama Invasion and the “Barr Doctrine” set the stage for the “Snatch” operation in Venezuela nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
how the Panama Invasion and the “Barr Doctrine” set the stage for the “Snatch” operation in Venezuela nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Imperial Prerogative: How the Panama Invasion and the “Barr Doctrine” Set the Stage for the Maduro “Snatch” Operation
Washington, D.C., January 16, 2026 - The Justice Department official who wrote the legal opinion determining that President Donald Trump had the constitutional authority to “unilaterally order” the “e...
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January 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Great new EBB today from Dr. Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi on
how the Panama Invasion and the “Barr Doctrine” set the stage for the “Snatch” operation in Venezuela nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
how the Panama Invasion and the “Barr Doctrine” set the stage for the “Snatch” operation in Venezuela nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Great power unilateralism and climate change are not a good combination. @rsanta.bsky.social @nsarchive.bsky.social
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Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts
Washington, D.C., January 15, 2026 - President Donald Trump’s recent withdrawal from the foundational United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Great power unilateralism and climate change are not a good combination. @rsanta.bsky.social @nsarchive.bsky.social
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Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts
Washington, D.C., January 15, 2026 - President Donald Trump’s recent withdrawal from the foundational United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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In pulling out of the UNFCCC, President Trump has sent a clear signal that the US will have no part in multileral debates about climate change. But this is a sharp divergence from past Republican administrations.
My latest for the @nsarchive.bsky.social:
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My latest for the @nsarchive.bsky.social:
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Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts
Washington, D.C., January 15, 2026 - President Donald Trump’s recent withdrawal from the foundational United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:22 PM
In pulling out of the UNFCCC, President Trump has sent a clear signal that the US will have no part in multileral debates about climate change. But this is a sharp divergence from past Republican administrations.
My latest for the @nsarchive.bsky.social:
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
My latest for the @nsarchive.bsky.social:
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts
Washington, D.C., January 15, 2026 - President Donald Trump’s recent withdrawal from the foundational United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Intergovernmental Panel on Cli...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
January 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Trump’s Withdrawal from UN Climate Body Breaks Bipartisan Consensus on Multilateral Efforts nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Time Machine: When Putin Warned Bush About Dangers of Regime Change www.spytalk.co/p/time-machi...
Time Machine: When Putin Warned Bush About Dangers of Regime Change
Irony abounds in newly unearthed telephone call on eve of US invasion of Iraq that records Putin warning Bush about violating UN charter and “international law.”
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January 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Time Machine: When Putin Warned Bush About Dangers of Regime Change www.spytalk.co/p/time-machi...
The Bush-Putin Transcripts: How Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush Bonded Over Terrorism
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The Bush-Putin Transcripts: How Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush Bonded Over Terrorism
Washington, D.C., January 7, 2026 - Russian president Vladimir Putin was the first foreign leader to call George W. Bush on his birthday in July 2001 and on the day of the 9/11 attacks, and the two pr...
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January 7, 2026 at 6:12 PM
The Bush-Putin Transcripts: How Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush Bonded Over Terrorism
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The history of U.S.-Greenland relations is a lot more interesting that most people think and includes the secret deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons there in 1958 and the 1968 crash of a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber near Thule Air Base. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The United States and Greenland, Part I: Episodes in Nuclear History 1947-1968
Washington, D.C., June 3, 2025 - The Trump administration’s intention to acquire Greenland, including possibly by force, has put a focus on the history of its strategic interest to U.S. policymakers. ...
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January 7, 2026 at 6:09 PM
The history of U.S.-Greenland relations is a lot more interesting that most people think and includes the secret deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons there in 1958 and the 1968 crash of a nuclear-armed B-52 bomber near Thule Air Base. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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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.
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.
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...
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January 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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.
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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The Archive's Rachel Santarsiero has a new piece published today in the @thebulletin.org on how the EPA has been erasing climate data from its website. thebulletin.org/2026/01/epas...
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.
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January 6, 2026 at 5:52 PM
The Archive's Rachel Santarsiero has a new piece published today in the @thebulletin.org on how the EPA has been erasing climate data from its website. thebulletin.org/2026/01/epas...
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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.
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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.
thebulletin.org
January 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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
@rsanta.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org
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Wrote for the @thebulletin.org about the EPA’s latest website removals on the human causes of climate change, the administration’s yearlong assault on climate information, and why the everyday person should care about disappearing data:
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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.
thebulletin.org
January 6, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Wrote for the @thebulletin.org about the EPA’s latest website removals on the human causes of climate change, the administration’s yearlong assault on climate information, and why the everyday person should care about disappearing data:
thebulletin.org/2026/01/epas...
thebulletin.org/2026/01/epas...
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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.
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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.
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The Capitol Riot: Documents You Should Read (Sourcebook)
The Capitol Riot: Documents You Should Read (Part 1)
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January 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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...
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...
The Archive's Rachel Santarsiero has a new piece published today in the @thebulletin.org on how the EPA has been erasing climate data from its website. thebulletin.org/2026/01/epas...
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.
thebulletin.org
January 6, 2026 at 5:52 PM
The Archive's Rachel Santarsiero has a new piece published today in the @thebulletin.org on how the EPA has been erasing climate data from its website. thebulletin.org/2026/01/epas...
National Security Archive Editorial Director Michael Evans spoke with Natasha Zouves of @newsnation.bsky.social about CIA behavior control experiments and MKULTRA.
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CIA MKUltra: Mind control experiments, LSD and secret assassination plots | The Truth of the Matter
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December 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
National Security Archive Editorial Director Michael Evans spoke with Natasha Zouves of @newsnation.bsky.social about CIA behavior control experiments and MKULTRA.
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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.
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/2025-12...