David Grusch Refused to Brief AARO and the Pentagon Wants You to Know It
In a tangle of internal emails, meeting memos, and agency-to-agency requests, a clear story emerges: the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) tried-repeatedly-to get whistleblower David Grusch to speak with them. He declined. The released...
An Internal Complaint, a Foreign Tie & a Trail That Went Quiet
In 2016, an NSA employee alleged that a colleague had been improperly hired-someone with prior access to classified information and potential foreign government connections. The case triggered a months-long internal investigation by the agency’s Inspector General. The...
How the NSA Weaponized Semantics to Deny Snowden’s Whistleblower Claims
When Edward Snowden claimed he’d raised concerns through official NSA channels before leaking classified documents, the agency responded not with transparency-but with a flurry of FOIA rejections, legal semantics, and redacted letters. Hundreds of pages of internal...
NSA Scrambled to Disprove Snowden’s Claims-While Withholding the Rest
In 2014, Edward Snowden publicly challenged the NSA to deny he had emailed agency lawyers raising concerns about surveillance programs. The NSA responded with silence, then a carefully orchestrated media campaign, and finally-hundreds of heavily redacted documents...
