For decades, a paper trail of 'motor carrier safety' hid a direct line between the White House and the Pentagon that bypassed the Department of Defense to move assets through state corridors.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A blackout is a death sentence for the vulnerable, yet a 1990 report on grid sabotage identified the risks while the names of the threats and the costs of hardening stayed hidden.
By Miriam Adler ·
The Pentagon demanded total immunity from emissions reporting to protect strategic secrets, but the White House settled for limited exemptions and a set of managed questions.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Ignored for a full year before an executive order was signed, a federal warning identified systemic vulnerabilities that touched virtually every major aspect of government operations.
By Constance Bell ·
Kept Secret for decades, a March 1987 reply describes the government's effort to block Jonathan Pollard from trading distorted claims of cooperation for a way out of prison.
By Vera Kessler ·
Iranian diplomats and Dearborn worshippers were mapped as security threats in a file kept secret for decades, though the names of the FBI's inside sources remain blacked out.
By Marcus Boone ·
A 1998 backgrounder kept secret for decades shows how the White House engineered treaty exemptions to hide the energy footprint of the Defense Department
By Harlan Pryce ·
A January 1999 intelligence estimate signaled Western alarms over Russian waste and political instability, masking a deeper hunt for Soviet nuclear remnants.
By Roy Castellano ·
A 1998 speech by a high-ranking diplomat masks military maneuvering behind the promise of environmental cooperation, linking climate treaties to strategic objectives met in Japan.
By Harlan Pryce ·
In 1999, an audit of 201 federal drills found a systemic failure to prepare for no-notice attacks and conventional weapons, leaving a gap in readiness that persisted until 2001.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Environmental groups pushed for transparency in 1999, but the Pentagon's carbon footprint stayed hidden behind national security exemptions kept secret for decades.
By Roy Castellano ·
A 1997 report kept the military's status as the government's largest energy consumer tucked into the pages of a diplomatic summary, masking a deeper strategic shift.
By Constance Bell ·
A 1996 risk assessment documented the fragility of the American power grid against electronic intrusion, though the specific nodes and state actors were kept out of the unclassified record.
By Miriam Adler ·
A 'Secret/Noforn' primer kept from foreign allies for years mapped the threats facing the US through 2020, but the planners left the internal rot of the American state entirely off the ledger.
By Constance Bell ·
The vulnerability of the nation's power and communication grids was laid bare by a series of intrusions that the military's highest leaders were told they could neither detect nor attribute.
By Marcus Boone ·
While the CIA mapped terrorist networks in South Asia, a 1995 security assessment began moving the burden of national defense onto private corporations under the guise of technical risk management.
By Marcus Boone ·