http://www.thememoryhole.org Rescuing Knowledge, Freeing Information. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:00:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Memory hole has obtained and scanned "Investigation and Prosecution of Illegal Money Laundering: A Guide to the Bank Secrecy Act." Originally written and published in 1983 by the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, this is the apparently identical version published by the IRS for its staff. CLICK HERE TO ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/08/money-laundering-manual/ Justice Dept: Amerithrax Court Documents [DOJ] Pentagon: "The Worldwide Military Command and Control System, A Historical Perspective (1960-1977), September 1980" (25MB) [DOD FOIA site] Justice Inspector General: "Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act, August 2008" [DOJ IG] Dept of Homeland Security: "Updated Status Report from DHS ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/08/some-newly-released-docs/ Via a Freedom of Information Act request (which involved paying $700 and waiting almost 4 years), The Memory Hole has obtained blank copies of most forms used by the National Security Agency). CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FIRST FILE [PDF | 344 pp | 10.7 meg] CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SECOND ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/07/over-400-nsa-forms/ ACLU posts three more torture memos from CIA and Justice Dept [ACLU] 53 new documents posted at the CIA's FOIA site [CIA] Pentagon Inspector General audit: "Accountability for Defense Security Service Assets With Personally Identifiable Information" [DOD IG] [News article] Pentagon FOIA release: "National Security Personnel System payouts FY 2007" [DOD] >>> background: What ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/07/leaking-news-docs-2/ I found this gigantic PDF file, "Port Study 2002," on a US military site several months ago. I downloaded it because infrastructure information often gets pulled offline during info-purges. I can no longer find this file, so I'm posting it. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FILE [PDF | 132 meg | ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/07/port-study-2002/ On a subpage of their Freedom of Info Act website, the Defense Department today has posted 127 pages of documents concerning embedded media. The file may be downloaded here: DOD FOIA Reading Room [PDF | 3.3 meg | 127 pp] Memory Hole mirror ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------------- ------------------------------- ---------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ------------------------------------ http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/07/pentagon-documents-on-embedded-media/ First Published Photographs of Wooden Imprisonment Crates >>> In Iraq, some prisoners/detainees are kept in wooden crates known as "prisoner boxes," so I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the US Central Command asking for the following: "Vanity Fair (Feb ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/07/prisoner-boxes-in-iraq/ flashback: Key lawmakers - including Pelosi - were briefed on waterboarding, other torture techniques & the CIA's secret prisons in 2002 [WashPost] Not only did they approve of these things, they encouraged them. major investigative series: Deadly denial: Nuclear weapons workers who risked their safety in the Cold War now must ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/07/leaking-news-docs/ The Memory Hole has posted the fourth, final volume of the rare transcripts from 1987/8 Senate hearings into official nacro-corruption in Central America, South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. This four-volume set of transcripts was available for a single week ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/07/exclusive-final-volume-of-kerry-hearings/ ------------------ Today in its Freedom of Information Act reading room, the Pentagon has posted 202 pages of documents related to its Iraqi Freedom Fund transfers/expenditures from 2002 to 2006: DOD reading room [PDF | 9 megs] Memory Hole mirror The Government Accountability Office explains the Iraqi Freedom Fund: "The Iraqi Freedom Fund is a special ... http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/07/pentagon-docs-iraq-expenditures/