Rachel Santarsiero
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Rachel Santarsiero
@rsanta.bsky.social
· Feb 28
The Climate Intelligence Assessment the Government Doesn’t Want You to See
Washington, D.C., February 28, 2025 - For 17 years, the U.S. Intelligence Community has refused to declassify one of its first investigations into climate change as a national security threat.
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For 17 years, the US intel community has kept classified an assessment on the security implications of climate change. Why has the IC kept it a secret? My latest on why the @nsarchive.bsky.social is calling on the ODNI to prioritize the report's declassification: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
How generous of the Department of Energy to give me five days instead of three to clarify my FOIA request—over a federal holiday.
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
How generous of the Department of Energy to give me five days instead of three to clarify my FOIA request—over a federal holiday.
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US Is (Officially) Gone, But Not Forgotten, at COP30
Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social of the @nsarchive.bsky.social comments in @insideclimatenews.org article by @bberwyn.bsky.social. insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social of the @nsarchive.bsky.social comments in @insideclimatenews.org article by @bberwyn.bsky.social. insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
US Is (Officially) Gone, But Not Forgotten, at COP30 - Inside Climate News
From fossil fuel politics to state-level climate action and intelligence monitoring, American influence remains deeply woven into the global climate talks.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
US Is (Officially) Gone, But Not Forgotten, at COP30
Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social of the @nsarchive.bsky.social comments in @insideclimatenews.org article by @bberwyn.bsky.social. insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
Scoville Fellow '22 @rsanta.bsky.social of the @nsarchive.bsky.social comments in @insideclimatenews.org article by @bberwyn.bsky.social. insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
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If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
If there's one thing the mainstream news media love to overlook, it's the impact of the mainstream news media. The petite Tea Party in all its elite-backed astroturfiness was hailed like a sacred comet; the historically huge No Kings was played down by the NY Times, among other publications.
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It did not go as planned, but it DID go as expected ...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...
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COP30 Backpedals on Climate Action - Inside Climate News
BELÉM, Brazil—After negotiators at COP30 retreated from meaningful climate action by failing to specifically mention the need to stop using fossil fuels in the final conference documents published Sat...
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November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
It did not go as planned, but it DID go as expected ...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2211202...
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The Archive's Rachel Santarsiero spoke with Inside Climate News about intelligence monitoring of climate negotiations. @rsanta.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
US Is (Officially) Gone, But Not Forgotten, at COP30 - Inside Climate News
From fossil fuel politics to state-level climate action and intelligence monitoring, American influence remains deeply woven into the global climate talks.
insideclimatenews.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The Archive's Rachel Santarsiero spoke with Inside Climate News about intelligence monitoring of climate negotiations. @rsanta.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
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My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Spoke with @insideclimatenews.org’s @bberwyn.bsky.social about one of the lesser known aspects of climate negotiations: US intel gathering and monitoring.
Is the U.S. still a ghost in the climate machine at COP30?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
US Is (Officially) Gone, But Not Forgotten, at COP30 - Inside Climate News
From fossil fuel politics to state-level climate action and intelligence monitoring, American influence remains deeply woven into the global climate talks.
insideclimatenews.org
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Spoke with @insideclimatenews.org’s @bberwyn.bsky.social about one of the lesser known aspects of climate negotiations: US intel gathering and monitoring.
Spoke with @insideclimatenews.org’s @bberwyn.bsky.social about one of the lesser known aspects of climate negotiations: US intel gathering and monitoring.
Is the U.S. still a ghost in the climate machine at COP30?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
US Is (Officially) Gone, But Not Forgotten, at COP30 - Inside Climate News
From fossil fuel politics to state-level climate action and intelligence monitoring, American influence remains deeply woven into the global climate talks.
insideclimatenews.org
November 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Spoke with @insideclimatenews.org’s @bberwyn.bsky.social about one of the lesser known aspects of climate negotiations: US intel gathering and monitoring.
Reposted by Rachel Santarsiero
Is the U.S. still a ghost in the climate machine at COP30?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
US Is (Officially) Gone, But Not Forgotten, at COP30 - Inside Climate News
From fossil fuel politics to state-level climate action and intelligence monitoring, American influence remains deeply woven into the global climate talks.
insideclimatenews.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Is the U.S. still a ghost in the climate machine at COP30?
insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2011202...
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For all its virtue-signaling about transparency, the UNFCCC really keeps a tight lid on things. The transparency, like so many other aspects of the process, is performative, because we NEVER get to see the discussions that really matter at COP30 or any other COP.
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
For all its virtue-signaling about transparency, the UNFCCC really keeps a tight lid on things. The transparency, like so many other aspects of the process, is performative, because we NEVER get to see the discussions that really matter at COP30 or any other COP.
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
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You can also read how the Ford administration tried to suppress the Church Committee report on assassinations in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Documents reveal Gerald Ford’s effort to block report on CIA assassination plots
Release of 1975 report comes amid conjecture Trump may have authorized the agency to assassinate Venezuelan president
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
You can also read how the Ford administration tried to suppress the Church Committee report on assassinations in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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CIA Assassination Plots: The Church Committee Report 50 Years Later
Read how the Ford administration tried to keep the landmark assassinations report secret
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Read how the Ford administration tried to keep the landmark assassinations report secret
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
CIA Assassination Plots: The Church Committee Report 50 Years Later
Washington D.C., November 20, 2025 - Fifty years ago today, a special Senate Committee led by Idaho Senator Frank Church lifted the veil of secrecy on the clandestine efforts of the Central Intelligen...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
CIA Assassination Plots: The Church Committee Report 50 Years Later
Read how the Ford administration tried to keep the landmark assassinations report secret
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Read how the Ford administration tried to keep the landmark assassinations report secret
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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The CIA has the OK to undertake covert ops in Venezuela.
The FBI is spying on immigration activists.
DHS is spying on almost all of us.
It's a good time for @nsarchive.bsky.social to highlight the Church Committee report, which investigated intel abuses.
Who's going to be the next Frank Church?
The FBI is spying on immigration activists.
DHS is spying on almost all of us.
It's a good time for @nsarchive.bsky.social to highlight the Church Committee report, which investigated intel abuses.
Who's going to be the next Frank Church?
CIA Assassination Plots: The Church Committee Report 50 Years Later
Washington D.C., November 20, 2025 - Fifty years ago today, a special Senate Committee led by Idaho Senator Frank Church lifted the veil of secrecy on the clandestine efforts of the Central Intelligen...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The CIA has the OK to undertake covert ops in Venezuela.
The FBI is spying on immigration activists.
DHS is spying on almost all of us.
It's a good time for @nsarchive.bsky.social to highlight the Church Committee report, which investigated intel abuses.
Who's going to be the next Frank Church?
The FBI is spying on immigration activists.
DHS is spying on almost all of us.
It's a good time for @nsarchive.bsky.social to highlight the Church Committee report, which investigated intel abuses.
Who's going to be the next Frank Church?
Not necessarily a higher-power believer, but maybe we should take the nudge from this all too on-the-nose metaphor and...do something???
BREAKING: COP30 Blue Zone venue is being evacuated after a firealarm was triggered. Smoke visible.
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Not necessarily a higher-power believer, but maybe we should take the nudge from this all too on-the-nose metaphor and...do something???
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Between the booths flooding and a fire breaking out in the Blue Zone, feels like maybe someone is trying to tell us something at #COP30
BREAKING: COP30 Blue Zone venue is being evacuated after a firealarm was triggered. Smoke visible.
November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Between the booths flooding and a fire breaking out in the Blue Zone, feels like maybe someone is trying to tell us something at #COP30
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O neoliteralismo ainda vai matar alguém.
🔥 INCÊNDIO NA COP | Por volta das 14h15 desta quinta-feira, um incêndio ocorreu em um pavilhão dentro da zona azul na COP30, e gerou a evacuação dos participantes. Ainda não há informações sobre feridos ou causa do incêndio. 📹: Arshreet Singh/Carbon Pulse
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
O neoliteralismo ainda vai matar alguém.
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i think 'quiet piggy' is an impeachable offense
November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
i think 'quiet piggy' is an impeachable offense
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Trump on brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi: "Things happen, but [MBS] knew nothing about it.”"
In 2021 the Director of National Intelligence declassified a report saying otherwise.
In 2021 the Director of National Intelligence declassified a report saying otherwise.
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Trump on brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi: "Things happen, but [MBS] knew nothing about it.”"
In 2021 the Director of National Intelligence declassified a report saying otherwise.
In 2021 the Director of National Intelligence declassified a report saying otherwise.
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Former Archive FOIA coordinator Nate Jones, now of The Washington Post, on the first known instance where the State Department has removed previously declassified and published documents from one of its "FRUS" historical volumes. @foianate.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/foia...
Getting to the bottom of why the State Department quietly deleted 15 pages of history on the risk of inadvertent nuclear war.
Free link below.
Free link below.
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Former Archive FOIA coordinator Nate Jones, now of The Washington Post, on the first known instance where the State Department has removed previously declassified and published documents from one of its "FRUS" historical volumes. @foianate.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/foia...
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Former @nsarchive.bsky.social FOIA coordinator Nate Jones discovered that the State Department deleted already declassfied records from one of its "FRUS" historical volumes. Today, the Archive published the censored documents.
The Censored History of Able Archer 83:
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Censored History of Able Archer 83
Washington, D.C., November 14, 2025 - The State Department quietly deleted important archival records from an official history detailing how a 1983 NATO war game could have led to a catastrophic nucle...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Former @nsarchive.bsky.social FOIA coordinator Nate Jones discovered that the State Department deleted already declassfied records from one of its "FRUS" historical volumes. Today, the Archive published the censored documents.
Reposted by Rachel Santarsiero
The Censored History of Able Archer 83:
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Censored History of Able Archer 83
Washington, D.C., November 14, 2025 - The State Department quietly deleted important archival records from an official history detailing how a 1983 NATO war game could have led to a catastrophic nucle...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Censored History of Able Archer 83:
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Archive Publishes “War Scare” Documents Deleted from State Department History (click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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I read the secret Senate testimony of CIA poison maker Sidney Gottlieb so that you don't have to. Read my summary here: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2025 – The CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, according to the October 1975 U.S. Senate te...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I read the secret Senate testimony of CIA poison maker Sidney Gottlieb so that you don't have to. Read my summary here: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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The Trump administration's ongoing bombing of boats at sea could be setting the stage for a direct attack on Venezuela or even an assassination of President Nicolás Maduro, warns @nsarchive.bsky.social analyst Peter Kornbluh.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/gunboat_diplomacy
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/gunboat_diplomacy
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The Trump administration's ongoing bombing of boats at sea could be setting the stage for a direct attack on Venezuela or even an assassination of President Nicolás Maduro, warns @nsarchive.bsky.social analyst Peter Kornbluh.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/gunboat_diplomacy
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/gunboat_diplomacy