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More of the Arctic ice photos kept secret by the Bush Administration
Source: trueslant.com

Almost two weeks ago, the Obama Administration declassified about 1,000 satellite photographs of Arctic ice the Bush Administration had kept under wraps.

IG Report: Waterboarding Was Neither "Efficacious Or Medically Safe"
Source: The Huffington Post

A CIA inspector general's report from May 2004 that is set to be declassified by the Obama White House will almost certainly disprove claims that waterboarding was only used in controlled circumstances with effective results.

The CIA's Open Secrets
Source: MotherJones.com

In a quiet, fluorescently lit room in the National Archives' auxiliary campus in suburban College Park, Maryland, 10 miles outside of Washington, are four computer terminals, each providing instant access to the more than 10 million pages of documents the CIA has declassified sin …

Emptywheel The Push to Publish the OPR Report
Source: Firedoglake

Newsweek's Michael Isikoff is being played by Dick Cheney's lawyer; and we get to read exactly what they want us to.

Newly Declassified DOD Documents Detail Torture, Deaths of Detainees
Source: pubrecord.org

Newly declassified Defense Department documents describe a pattern of "abusive" behavior by U.S. military interrogators that directly led to the deaths of several suspected terrorists imprisoned at a detention center in Afghanistan in December 2002.

National Security Agency Releases History of Cold War Intelligence Activities
Source: gwu.edu

In response to a declassification request by the National Security Archive, the secretive National Security Agency has declassified large portions of a four-part "top-secret Umbra" study, American Cryptology during the Cold War.

The infamous CIA "Family Jewels"
Source: foia.cia.gov

This is a FOIA copy of the CIA "Family Jewels".

Declassified: CIA Secrets to Be Revealed
Source: ABC News

They are known as the "family jewels" -- documents so secret, and so potentially damaging, that the CIA has fought to keep them classified until now.

Which secret Govt Documents will be Declassified on Dec 31?
Source: HowStuffWorks

So what can we expect to learn when these pages become accessible to the public? We're not talking about small secrets here.

Indexes to NSA Publications Declassified and Online
Source: schneier.com

In May 2003, Michael Ravnitzky submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the National Security Agency for a copy of the index to their historical reports at the Center for Cryptologic History and the index to certain journals: the NSA Technical Journal and the Cryp …

The Memory Hole releases NSA Bibliographies
Source: thememoryhole.org

The Memory Hole, a website edited by Russ Kick whose mission statment includes freeing recently dclassified information and bringing it to the public's attention, has unearthed indexes of four periodicals published by the NSA as well as well as a listing of publications from the …

Declassified Key Judgments of the NIE Report [PDF]
Source: The New York Times

This is a PDF version of the key judgements from the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States, from which information considered by some to be damning of the Iraq War was leaked a few days ago.

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