>>> Sometime fairly recently - late February or early March 2006 - a portion of the Justice Department's website was quietly removed. Specifically, it was the website of the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT), part of Justice's Criminal Division. Its mission is summarized as:

OPDAT supports the law enforcement objectives of the United States and the [Justice] Department's international law enforcement priorities by preparing foreign counterparts to cooperate more fully with the United States in combating transnational crime and terrorism, by improving foreign judicial assistance to the United States, and by promoting the rule of law and respect for human rights.

OPDAT's homepage was here: http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/opdat/selected/OPDAT-home.html

But like every other page within the directory [www.usdoj.gov/criminal/opdat/], it has been removed and now results in a 404 error. (All that remains is this apparently orphaned page that contains 5 sentences about OPDAT.)

I emailed the Justice Department's webmaster about this. I got a response saying that my query had been "forwarded to the proper unit." That's the last I've heard.

The Memory Hole has recovered 14 of the pages (sans graphics). They are posted below.

Thanks to JDRhoades for first noticing this and to CM for alerting me

Homepage

What is the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT)

DOJ/OPDAT Recent Achievements

DOJ/OPDAT Counterterrorism Programs

Welcome to OPDAT's Justice Sector Project Initiatives (JSPI)

DOJ/OPDAT Asia Pacific Programs

DOJ/OPDAT Eurasia Programs

DOJ/OPDAT Latin America and the Carribean Programs

EXPERIENCED PROSECUTOR NEEDED TO SERVE AS RESIDENT LEGAL ADVISOR IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

EXPERIENCED PROSECUTOR NEEDED TO SERVE AS RESIDENT LEGAL ADVISOR IN TBILISI, GEORGIA

EXPERIENCED PROSECUTOR NEEDED TO SERVE AS A RESIDENT LEGAL ADVISOR IN CHIISINAU, MOLDOVA

FIVE NON-ATTORNEY PROGRAM ANALYSTS (GS-7/9/11) POSITIONS AVAILABLE

TWO VOLUNTEER UNDERGRADUATE INTERN POSITIONS AVAILABLE

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