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Manual of Trickery and Self-Deception

From a recently declassified article, written by an author whose name was redacted, published in the winter 1986 issue of Studies in Intelligence, the in-house journal of the CIA.

Tort Fishing in America

From the November 2014 Supreme Court oral argument in Yates v. United States. In 2007, a Florida Fish and Wildlife officer found seventy-two undersize red grouper on John L. Yates’s…

Ag Gag

From approximately 150 interviews with current and former employees of the Food and Drug Administration collected as part of an oral-history project begun in the 1970s. Recordings of the interviews…

From “Divine Secrets of the RYBAT Sisterhood: Four Senior Women of the Directorate of Operations Discuss Their Careers,” the transcript of a recently declassified 2004 conversation among five high-ranking female…

Secretary of Nothing

by Andrew Cockburn,

John Kerry and the myth of foreign policy

Life as a Terrorist

by William T. Vollmann,

Uncovering my FBI file

Last Request

From emails exchanged by employees of the U.S. State Department, an anonymous Iraqi man known here by the pseudonym Omar, and Omar’s brother. In 2011, Omar, who had worked as…

Mincing Words

From emails sent in 2011 and 2012 by employees of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service concerning news reports that ground beef commonly contains lean finely…

Screening baggage

by Harper’s Staff,

Evidence of Absence

by Donald Rumsfeld,

“Snowflake” memos by Donald Rumsfeld, written during his 2001–2006 tenure as U.S. secretary of defense, from among nearly 2,000 documents he released in February. “Snowflake” is the term Rumsfeld used…

Waste management

by Harper’s Staff,

Officials and employees

Manual of Trickery and Self-Deception

Tort Fishing in America

Ag Gag

Janes Bond

Secretary of Nothing

Life as a Terrorist

Last Request

Mincing Words

Screening baggage

Evidence of Absence

Waste management

Debug

Officials and employees

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Manual of Trickery and Self-Deception

Tort Fishing in America

Ag Gag

Janes Bond

Secretary of Nothing

Life as a Terrorist

Last Request

Mincing Words

Screening baggage

Evidence of Absence

Waste management

February 2011

Debug