The Evidence Record

The Evidence Record

• Department-Level Accounting Entries for FY 1999 (D-2000-179)

  Government Record · 2000

  DoD Office of Inspector General

  The Pentagon Inspector General's audit behind the $2.3 trillion figure. Of $7.6 trillion in accounting entries, $2.3 trillion were unsupported or made to invalid accounts, and…

• Deputy Secretary of Defense Delivers Defense Industrial Base Report to President

  Government Record · 2018

  U.S. Department of Defense

  The Defense Department's October 2018 announcement delivering its report to the President on weaknesses in America's manufacturing and defense industrial base.

• DIA: Controlled Offensive Behavior, USSR (1972)

  Government Record · 1972

  John D. LaMothe

  Defense Intelligence Agency, 1972 (declassified): a review of Soviet research into influencing human behavior, including microwaves and parapsychology, written to help protect U.S. personnel.

• Did the Federal Government Spend $21 Trillion That Wasn’t Authorized by Congress?

  News Report · 2017

  Michigan Public

  Michigan Public's 2017 follow-up, quoting the Pentagon Inspector General that "unsupported" means the paperwork was inadequate, not proof the money was spent without authorization.

• DNI Releases Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Figure for the National Intelligence Program

  Government Record · 2024

  Office of the Director of National Intelligence

  The 2024 national intelligence budget topline, $76.5 billion.

• DNI Releases Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Figure for the National Intelligence Program

  Government Record · 2025

  Office of the Director of National Intelligence

  The Director of National Intelligence's release of the 2025 intelligence budget topline, $73.3 billion. Everything below the topline stays classified.

• DoD Directive 2311.01: DoD Law of War Program (2020)

  Government Record · 2020

  U.S. Department of Defense

  DoD Directive 2311.01 (2020): every weapon the Pentagon buys or modifies must get a law-of-war legal review.

• DoD Directive 3000.03E: Non-Lethal Weapons Policy

  Government Record · 2013

  U.S. Department of Defense

  DoD Directive 3000.03E: nonlethal weapons need legal reviews and testing of their effects on people. It admits nonlethal weapons can still kill or permanently injure.

• DOD Financial Management: Actions Needed to Achieve a Clean Audit Opinion (GAO-26-109115)

  Government Record · 2026

  U.S. Government Accountability Office

  GAO's 2026 testimony: the Pentagon has failed all eight full audits since 2018 and has been on GAO's High-Risk List for financial management since 1995.

• DoD Instruction 5410.16: DoD Assistance to Non-Government, Entertainment-Oriented Media Productions

  Government Record · 2015

  U.S. Department of Defense

  The Pentagon's rules for helping movies and TV: assistance is tied to script review, and the Defense Department can suggest script changes needed to get its…

• DoD Revolving Funds Justification Book, Fiscal Year 2025

  Government Record · 2024

  Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)

  A Pentagon budget book stating that Raven Rock Mountain Complex carries the Defense Department's continuity-of-operations plan for the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff and senior…

• DoD: Payment for Anomalous Health Incident Brain Injuries (2024)

  Government Record · 2024

  Department of Defense

  Federal Register, September 2024: the Pentagon's rules for HAVANA Act payments for brain injuries from anomalous health incidents.

• Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy (Kerry Committee Report, 1988)

  Government Record · 1988

  Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations (S. Prt. 100-165)

  The Senate subcommittee report led by Senator John Kerry. It found substantial evidence of drug smuggling through the Contra war zones by individual Contras, Contra suppliers…

• Edrei v. Bratton (2d Cir. 2018): LRAD Sound Cannon Case

  Court Filing · 2018

  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  Second Circuit, 2018, Edrei v. Bratton: New York police officers who used an LRAD sound cannon on protesters were denied qualified immunity. The court did not…

• EMP Commission: Assessing the Threat from EMP, Executive Report (2017)

  Government Record · 2017

  Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack

  EMP Commission, 2017 executive report on the electromagnetic pulse threat. It says limits on Pentagon support kept it from finishing its full assignment from Congress.

• EMP Commission: Critical National Infrastructures Report (2008)

  Government Record · 2008

  Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack

  EMP Commission, 2008: in its simulated EMP tests, "every system tested failed." The simulator did not reproduce every real-world condition.

• EMP Commission: Executive Report (2004)

  Government Record · 2004

  Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack

  EMP Commission, 2004: the 1962 Starfish Prime nuclear test knocked out street lights, tripped breakers and damaged a telecom relay in Hawaii, 1,400 kilometers away.

• Epirus: Four IFPC-HPM Microwave Systems Delivered to the Army (2024)

  Corporate Filing · 2024

  Epirus Inc.

  Epirus, May 2024: delivered four high-power microwave drone-defense systems to the Army. The company's own claims about performance; the Army's test report was still to come.

• European Parliament Resolution on the Gladio Affair (1990)

  Government Record · 1990

  European Parliament

  The European Parliament's November 22, 1990 resolution on the Gladio affair, adopted after Italy's prime minister confirmed the secret stay-behind network existed. It called for full…

• Executive Order 12656: Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities

  Government Record · 1988

  President Ronald Reagan

  President Reagan's 1988 order assigning every federal agency emergency and continuity-of-government duties. It says the plans themselves need separate legal authority to be carried out.

• Executive Order 13865: National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses (2019)

  Government Record · 2019

  President Donald J. Trump

  Executive Order 13865, March 2019: orders federal agencies to prepare the country for electromagnetic pulses that could damage the power grid and other infrastructure.

• FAQs: NIST WTC 7 Investigation

  Government Record · 2021

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

  NIST's answers to public questions about Building 7, including its account of the fire-induced collapse.

• FAQs: NIST WTC Towers Investigation

  Government Record · 2021

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

  NIST's answers to public questions about its Twin Towers findings, including its statement that it found no corroborating evidence of controlled demolition. This is NIST answering…

• Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters, Volume I (Walsh, 1993)

  Government Record · 1993

  Office of Independent Counsel (Lawrence E. Walsh)

  Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh's final report on the Iran-Contra prosecutions, covering the arms sales to Iran, support to the Contras in violation of the Boland Amendment,…