New (to me) website and blog article: "Pentagon Joins DHS in Destroying Potential J6 Evidence"

[LaMouffette]

The website is National Security Archives. Their blog is called "Unredacted," which is where the article on the Pentagon destroying evidence is located.

An excerpt:

The Pentagon has joined the Department of Homeland Security in destroying potential evidence related to the January 6 Capitol attack. Open government organization American Oversight posted court records related to its FOIA lawsuit for DoD January 6 records on its website, and the records indicate that the Pentagon “wiped” government-issued phones for senior officials that were in charge of mobilizing the National Guard’s response to the insurrection. The Washington Post reports that the erasure impacts the phone records of numerous senior officials, including then-acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller and then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy.

The court records indicate that the erasure is in keeping with DoD and Army policy for employees who have left the agency. An investigation of the Pentagon’s records retention schedules will help verify this claim, which, if true, is an egregious oversight that may impact the January 6 committee’s investigation. It would also put further pressure on the National Archives and Records Administration to do a more thorough job vetting agency records retention schedules.

[link:https://unredacted.com/2022/08/04/pentagon-joins-dhs-in-destroying-potential-january-6-evidence-calls-records-retention-schedules-into-question-frinformsum-8-4-2022/|

The website also has an article stating that while Nixon was in Moscow in 1959, he was subjected to doses of radiation at his hotel.

Anyway, just came across this website this morning and thought I'd share.

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1. Looks like a GW University project:

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/about/guide-researchers-outside-gwu

Guide for Researchers from outside of George Washington University

Welcome!

The National Security Archive is an award-winning investigative journalism center, research institute, and archive of declassified U.S. documents. In 1999, we won a Special George Polk Award for “piercing self-serving veils of government secrecy, guiding journalists in search for the truth and informing us all.” Since then, the organization, its staff, and fellows have variously earned an Emmy, a Peabody, two Pulitzers, and numerous other honors.

awards

In fact, our most important and widely used materials are accessible through the Web, including more than 780 expertly curated electronic briefing books of key primary sources, and our enormous dataset of professionally indexed, declassified documents in the Digital National Security Archive, published by ProQuest

So, if you are a student or instructor, these records are tailored to your needs — curated, fully searchable, and ideal for research papers or the classroom.

[Note: The Archive's aim is to encourage wide use of our materials, so unless otherwise indicated all declassified U.S. government records on this site are freely available to the public. For details about reprinting or citing original content, please see Terms and Conditions below.]

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[LaMouffette]

2. I know nothing about GW University. Are they on our side (liberal, progressive leaning)?

It sounds that way, if their goal is "piercing self-serving veils of government secrecy."

Thanks for pointing out the website's affiliation!

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3. Wow. What a resource. Bookmarking just to browse.