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NEW Department of the Treasury (DOT) Meeting Agendas of Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) Deputies Meetings, 2016-2019 - [PDF 440 KB - 11-Aug-2025]

NEW Selected Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed in Recent Years - [PDF 5 MB - 11-Aug-2025]

NEW Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Records Described as Public Affairs Guidance, Jan 2017 - July 2020 - [PDF 43 MB - 11-Aug-2025]

NEW Copies of Selected National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Inspector General (OIG) Investigation Reports 2022-2024 - [PDF 3.9 MB - 11-Aug-2025]

NEW List of US Agency for International Development (USAID) Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed during 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 553 KB - 11-Aug-2025]

NEW Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Emails containing the phrase 60 Minutes between January 20 and February 6, 2025 in email accounts of FCC senior staff - [PDF 4.4 MB - 11-Aug-2025]

NEW Department of the Treasury (DOT) Meeting Agendas of Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) Deputies Meetings, 2016-2019 - [PDF 440 KB - 11-Aug-2025]

NEW Selected Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed in Recent Years - [PDF 5 MB - 11-Aug-2025]

NEW Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Records Described as Public Affairs Guidance, Jan 2017 - July 2020 - [PDF 43 MB - 11-Aug-2025]

NEW Copies of Selected National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Inspector General (OIG) Investigation Reports 2022-2024 - [PDF 3.9 MB - 11-Aug-2025]

NEW List of US Agency for International Development (USAID) Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed during 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 553 KB - 11-Aug-2025]

NEW Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Emails containing the phrase 60 Minutes between January 20 and February 6, 2025 in email accounts of FCC senior staff - [PDF 4.4 MB - 11-Aug-2025]

NEW Selected Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Inspector General (OIG) Investigation Reports, 2023-2024 - [PDF 4 MB - 04-Aug-2025]

UPDATED Meeting minutes of the Armed Forces Chaplains Board (AFCB) and the Personnel Advisory Group (PAG) of the Armed Forces Chaplains Board (AFCB), 2003-2012 - [PDF 15 MB - 04-Aug-2025]

NEW Government Printing Office (GPO) Women in the Federal Service by Lucille Foster McMillin, 1938-1941 - [PDF 1.8 MB - 04-Aug-2025]

NEW National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The Hubble Space Telescope Optical Systems Failure Report, November 1990 - [PDF 3.8 MB - 04-Aug-2025]

NEW United States Geological Survey (USGS) emails in the accounts of Shellie Zahniser and Chris Hammond containing the words McKinley or Denali or Gulf, January 20-25, 2025 - [PDF 6.2 MB - 04-Aug-2025]

NEW General Services Administration (GSA) Due Diligence Materials Regarding the Trump Old Post Office LLC Sale of the Lease for the Old Post Office Building 2019-2022, some records undated - [PDF 5.6 MB - 04-Aug-2025]

NEW Department of State (DOS) Inspector General (OIG) Protection of Classified Information of State Department Headquarters, 2005 - [PDF 8.2 MB - 28-Jul-2025]

NEW List of Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed in 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 828 KB - 28-Jul-2025]

NEW List of Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations closed in 2023 and/or 2024 - [PDF 650 KB - 28-Jul-2025]

NEW Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Email containing the phrase "Burning Man" in email accounts for senior BLM executives, 2019 - [PDF 7.3 MB - 28-Jul-2025]

NEW Government Printing Office (GPO) The First Year: A Study of Women's Participation in Federal Defense Activities, by Lucille Foster McMillin, 194"1 - [PDF 1.1 MB - 28-Jul-2025]

NEW Government Printing Office (GPO) The Second Year: A Study of Women's Participation in Federal Defense Activities, by Lucille Foster McMillin, 1943 - [PDF 2.8 MB - 28-Jul-2025]

NEW Department of State (DOS) Inspector General (OIG) Protection of Classified Information of State Department Headquarters, 2005 - [PDF 8.2 MB - 21-Jul-2025]

NEW List of Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed in 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 828 KB - 21-Jul-2025]

NEW List of Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations closed in 2023 and/or 2024 - [PDF 650 KB - 21-Jul-2025]

NEW Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Email containing the phrase "Burning Man" in email accounts for senior BLM executives, 2019 - [PDF 7.3 MB - 21-Jul-2025]

NEW Government Printing Office (GPO) The First Year: A Study of Women's Participation in Federal Defense Activities, by Lucille Foster McMillin, 1941 - [PDF 1.1 MB - 21-Jul-2025]

NEW Government Printing Office (GPO) The Second Year: A Study of Women's Participation in Federal Defense Activities, by Lucille Foster McMillin, 1943 - [PDF 2.8 MB - 21-Jul-2025]

NEW Department of Energy (DOE) Responses to Congressional Questions on Energy Topics 2022 - [PDF 712 KB - 21-Jul-2025]

NEW List of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Notorious Offender Files 2025 - [PDF 348 KB - 21-Jul-2025]

NEW United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed during CY2023 and CY2024 - [PDF 336 KB - 21-Jul-2025]

NEW Department of the Interior (DOI) Dept Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Handbook 2024 - [PDF 1 MB - 21-Jul-2025]

NEW Each email sent by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) executive William Perry Pendley between July 15 and July 28, 2019 - [PDF 18.4 MB - 21-Jul-2025]

NEW List of Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed in 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 340 KB - 21-Jul-2025]

NEW Email in the account of William B. Crews, a recently retired Office of Communications and Government Relations (OCGR) employee at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), that contain any of the following words: FAUCI, TRUMP, POLITICAL, COVID, REDFIELD, or CDC, 01-November-2019 - 30-September-2020 - [PDF 5.1 MB - 14-Jul-2025]

NEW Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Transition Briefing Book for the Incoming Biden Administration, Nov 2020 - [PDF 4.4 MB - 14-Jul-2025]

NEW Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Records on Senator Elizabeth Warren's November 30, 2017 letter to CFPB Inspector General Mark Bialek concerning the freeze on new CFPB rules under Acting Director Mulvaney and all related OIG responses, 2017 - [PDF 2.4 MB - 14-Jul-2025]

NEW A copy of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) policy in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Office describing the process for additional review of sensitive or high visibility topics, 2016 - [PDF 530 KB - 14-Jul-2025]

NEW Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Complaints about Comenity Bank, Jan 2020 - Oct 2024 - [Excel file 4.3 MB - 14-Jul-2025]

NEW Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Return to Office Implementation Plan, 2025 - [PDF 840 KB - 14-Jul-2025]

NEW Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Emails to or from Mick Mulvaney containing the keywords TRUMP or PRESIDENT, Nov 25 2017 - Dec 11, 2018 - [PDF 5.6 MB - 14-Jul-2025]

NEW Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) PHALANX Reports to Analyze Unmanned Aircraft System Activity, 2024 - [PDF 11 MB - 07-Jul-2025]

NEW National Security Agency (NSA) Oral History of [REDACTED] NSA OH 2007-31-[REDACTED] - [PDF 3.3 MB - 07-Jul-2025]

NEW National Security Agency (NSA) Oral History of Charles C. Tevis, Former Director DEFSMAC, NSA OH 1988-05, 1988 - [PDF 9.7 MB - 07-Jul-2025]

NEW List of National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed during 2021 and 2022 - [PDF 800 KB - 07-Jul-2025]

NEW National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed during 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 520 KB - 07-Jul-2025]

NEW Department of Agriculture (USDA) Action Plan Response on Executive Order 14154: Unleashing American Energy developed by the Secretary of Agriculture under the requirements of Executive Order 14154, 2025 - [PDF 700 KB - 07-Jul-2025]

NEW U.S. AbilityOne Commission Return to Office Implementation Memo, 2025 - [PDF 1.8 MB - 07-Jul-2025]

NEW Selected Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Legislative Briefing Memos, 2017-2022 - [PDF 1.6 MB MB - 30-Jun-2025]

NEW Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Correspondence with Congressional Committees or Subcommittees, 2018-2022 - [PDF 8.4 MB - 30-Jun-2025]

NEW Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Records regarding Victoria University's PredictIt predictive marketplace, 2018-2022 - [PDF 4.2 MB - 30-Jun-2025]

NEW Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Study of silver nanowire release from touchscreen displays 2023(?) - [PDF 7..8 MB - 30-Jun-2025]

NEW List of Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed during 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 356 KB - 30-Jun-2025]

NEW List of Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed During 2021 and 2022 - [PDF 336 KB - 30-Jun-2025]

NEW Two (2) Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) historical documents
A Modern History of FOMC Communication: 1975-2002, 2003
Background on FOMC Meeting Minutes, 2005
- [PDF 6 MB - 23-Jun-2025]

NEW National Science Foundation (NSF) McMurdo Antarctica Satellite Communications Systems Study 2012 - [PDF 4.3 MB - 23-Jun-2025]

NEW Selected Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigation Reports, 2023-2024 - [PDF 12.4 MB - 23-Jun-2025]

NEW Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed in 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 312 KB - 23-Jun-2025]

NEW Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Systematic Declassification Review of Classified NRC Documents, 2020-202 - [PDF 1.9 MB - 23-Jun-2025]

NEW Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Emails containing the word "privatize" or "privatization", Jan 1, 2019 - May 23, 2019 - [PDF 36 MB - 23-Jun-2025]

NEW Department of State (DOS) Inspector General (OIG) Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) or Memoranda of Agreement (MOA) 2019-2021 - [PDF 2 MB - 16-Jun-2025]

NEW Ten (10) Sample Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) "Technical Determination" Letters 2019-2023 - [PDF 10.6 MB - 16-Jun-2025]

NEW Department of State (DOS) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) 2019 - [PDF 1.9 MB - 16-Jun-2025]

NEW Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) Agency Reorganization Plan submitted to OMB 2025 - [PDF 368 KB - 16-Jun-2025]

NEW Three (3) Department of Defense (DoD) Directives:
DoD Directive C-5030.43 - Significant Military Exercises, March 26, 1970
DoD Directive C-3325.05 - Interruption of Commercial and Civil Remote Sensing Space System Operations, February 25, 2000
DoD Directive C-5030.44, Military Operations in or Near Politically Sensitive Areas, June 29, 1973
- [PDF 2.6 MB - 16-Jun-2025]

NEW Department of the Interior (DOI) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigation Report on Suspected Illegal Gas Flaring in North Dakota, 2020 - [PDF 3.5 MB - 16-Jun-2025]

NEW General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Selected Investigations 2021-2024 - [PDF 628 KB - 09-Jun-2025]

NEW U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) Briefing for Incoming President Biden, 2021 - [PDF 1.3 MB - 09-Jun-2025]

NEW Correspondence between the Department of State (DOS) Inspector General (OIG) and United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), 2017 to 2021 - [PDF 5.5 MB - 09-Jun-2025]

NEW National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Inspector General (OIG) various Closed investigation reports 2023 - [PDF 2.1 MB - 09-Jun-2025]

NEW Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI): The United States Department of Energy 1977-1994 - A Summary History, by Terrence R. Fehner and Jack M. Holl, November 1994 - [PDF 6.4 MB - 09-Jun-2025]

NEW Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed during 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 384 KB - 09-Jun-2025]

NEW National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Inventories of Specially Protected Records and Artifacts (SPRAs) at College Park, Maryland (Archives II) 2022 - [Excel file 6.4 MB - 02-Jun-2025]

NEW General Services Administration (GSA) Foreign Gifts Program Database 2022 - [Excel file 1.4 MB - 02-Jun-2025]

NEW Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Transition Briefing for the Incoming Biden Administration 2020 - [PDF 7 MB - 02-Jun-2025]

NEW Department of the Interior (DOI) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Closed Investigations regarding the National Park Service (NPS), January - April 2025 - [PDF 2.6 MB - 02-Jun-2025]

NEW Department of Transportation (DOT) Badge Swipe Daily Statistics for DOT HQ Building - January 2022 to March 2024 - [PDF 574 KB - 02-Jun-2025]

NEW Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) Return to Office Plan 2025 - [PDF 408 KB - 02-Jun-2025]

NEW Department of State Inspector General (OIG) Investigation of Problems at United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) under Former CEO Michael Pack 2021-2023 - [PDF 3.6 MB - 26-May-2025]

NEW Copy of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) Historical Collections Database 2025 - [Excel file 2.7 MB - 26-May-2025]

NEW Department of Defense (DoD) Climate Adaptation Guide for Cultural Resources 2023 - [PDF 3.9 MB - 26-May-2025]

NEW Department of the Interior (DOI) Each Assistant Secretary's Action Plans provided in response to Executive Orders 14154 or the Secretary's Order 3418, 2025 - [PDF 16 MB - 26-May-2025]

NEW Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) Investigation of Misconduct against Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Inspector General (OIG) A Roy Lavik and Deputy IG Judith Ringle 2015-2023 - [PDF 16.4 MB - 26-May-2025]

NEW National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) Agency Reorganization Plan required by Executive Order 14210, 2025 - [PDF 520 KB - 26-May-2025]

NEW National Security Agency (NSA) paper: Fifty Years of Mathematical Cryptanalysis (1937-1987), 1988 - [PDF 8.9 MB - 19-May-2025]

NEW List of Americorps/Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) Closed Inspector General (OIG) Investigations, 2021-2022 - [PDF 348 KB - 19-May-2025]

NEW List of Americorps/Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) Closed Inspector General (OIG) Investigations, 2023-2024 - [PDF 324 KB - 19-May-2025]

NEW Selected Federal Election Commission (FEC) Inspector General (OIG) Investigation Reports 2022-2023 - [PDF 1.7 MB - 19-May-2025]

NEW Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed in 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 568 KB - 19-May-2025]

NEW Council of Inspectors General for Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) Integrity Committee (IC) Investigations No. 890 & 909 2014-2020 - [PDF 7.4 MB - 19-May-2025]

NEW United States Central Command (CENTCOM) FOIA Processing Guidelines, 2017 - [PDF 1.5 MB - 12-May-2025]

NEW Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) Rocky Mountain Power Operations Power System Dispatcher Trainee Playbook 2023 - [PDF 848 KB - 12-May-2025]

NEW List of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed during 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 488 KB - 12-May-2025]

NEW Final Reports from Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations closed during 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 1.5 MB - 12-May-2025]

NEW General Services Administration (GSA) Infrastructure Assessment for the Robert C. Weaver Building (the HUD Headquarters Building) 2013-2025 - [PDF 48.5 MB - 12-May-2025]

NEW National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) Agency Reorganization Plan, 2025 - [PDF 408 KB - 12-May-2025]

NEW General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed during CY2023 and CY2024 - [PDF 2.5 MB - 05-May-2025]

NEW Selected Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Closed Investigation Reports 2023 - [PDF 6.3 MB - 05-May-2025]

NEW Federal Reserve Board (FRB) Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed in 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 410 KB - 05-May-2025]

NEW Reports of Various National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Inspector General (OIG) Investigations Closed during 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 3.5 MB - 05-May-2025]

NEW Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) list of Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC IG) Closed investigations during 2023 and 2024 - [PDF 450 KB - 05-May-2025]

NEW Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Return to Office Implementation Plan 2025 - [PDF 440 KB - 05-May-2025]

NEW Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Inspector General (OIG) investigations Closed 2015-2020 - [PDF 1 MB - 28-Apr-2025]

NEW War Report of The OSS (Office of Strategic Services) 1947/1976 - [PDF 7.4 MB - 28-Apr-2025]

NEW US International Trade Commission (USITC) Return to Office Implementation Plan, 2025 - [PDF 380 KB- 28-Apr-2025]

NEW US Secret Service (USSS) Records regarding Secret Service cooperation with the making of the 1993 motion picture "In the Line of Fire" - [PDF 1 MB - 28-Apr-2025]

NEW Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Policies and Procedures Manual, PPM 5400-11, 2017 - [PDF 1.25 MB - 28-Apr-2025]

NEW Commission on Fine Arts (CFA) Return to Office Implementation Plan 2025 - [PDF 380 KB - 28-Apr-2025]

NEW Commission on Fine Arts (CFA) Agency Reorganization Plan, 2015 - [PDF 564 KB - 28-Apr-2025]

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