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{UPDATE July 3, 2008: This post refers to the original structure of the relaunched site, but it’s now been consolidated so that everything new shows up on the front page. So please just ignore this post.}

The Memory Hole is back in a new incarnation. You’ll find two parts - the blog (which you’re reading now) and the main site, an archive of documents pried loose from officialdom.

To find out more about The Memory Hole 2.0, check out this article from the main site.

The Memory Hole 2.0 Is Here

After an extended hiatus, The Memory Hole is back and ready to post more documents, usually of a sensitive, governmental type nature.

To jog your memory - it has been a while - the site is best known for obtaining and releasing 288 photos of flag-covered coffins containing the remains of troops from Iraq, digitally uncensoring a Justice Dept report, and obtaining and posting the uncut 5-minute footage of George W. Bush doing nothing as the 9/11 attacks raged (this video had already been downloaded well over 200,000 times by the time Michael Moore used it in Farenheit 9/11 exactly one year later).

There’s been a lot of other nifty material here: all 21 CDs of the FDNY’s dispatch tapes from 9/11, the ultra-rare Kerry hearings into narco-corruption, a massive guide to unseen NSA publications, the National Archives’ investigation into the missing papers of Chief Justice John Roberts, US Army Chemical Corps reports, the previously unreleased reports from the Future of Iraq Project, photos of the Iranian hostage crisis that had never been seen outside of Iran (which were then prominently used, with credit, by Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden in Guests of the Ayatollah), 19 politically inconvenient reports that were yanked from the Civil Rights Commisssion’s website … well, there’s a whole lot more. To take a gander, head over to the old site at http://www.thememoryhole.org/index2.htm

At the very beginning of the relaunch, the site had two sections - the main site and a blog - but to (hopefully) simplify things, all the new posts, articles, etc. will now appear on the main page:

www.thememoryhole.org

Documents posted to The Memory Hole come from two main sources: Freedom of Information Act requests filed by me (and some contributors and colleagues), and documents posted to government websites, especially if they’ve been pulled offline or are likely candidates for an info-cleanse. Occasionally, helpful souls will donate rare and forgotten documents retrieved from the bowels of libraries, purchased from the Government Printing Office before quickly becoming unavailable, etc.

Simultaneously, I’ll also be taking a more bloggy approach by pointing you to other important documents being posted online (and there are lots of them going up all the time). Plus, I’ll be linking to news about such documents, as well as databases, interesting gov/mil pages, and sundry related things.

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Expect changes to the look and workings of the site, especially as my webmaster and I get things tweaked and ironed over the coming weeks. If something doesn’t seem to be working properly, or if you have any other kind of feedback, please get in touch.

So please bookmark this site and/or subscribe to The Memory Hole’s RSS feed to keep up on the latest, and get ready for some unredacted fun…….

–Russ

{NOTE: This post was updated July 3, 5:18 PM Arizona time to reflect the new structure of the site.}