The Evidence Record

The Evidence Record

• The Gulf of Tonkin, the 1964 Incidents: Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1968)

  Transcript · 1968

  Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

  The 1968 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in which Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara defended the account of the August 1964 attacks as senators questioned whether…

• The Role of Metallurgy in the NIST Investigation of the World Trade Center Towers Collapse

  Peer-Reviewed Study

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

  NIST’s own metallurgical findings from the World Trade Center investigation, published in JOM in November 2007. Authored by seven NIST scientists. This paper contains the figure…

• The Ultimate Congressional Hideaway

  News Report · 1992

  Ted Gup, The Washington Post

  Ted Gup's 1992 Washington Post Magazine investigation that exposed the secret congressional bunker under the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia, built starting in 1959 and ready…

• Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Public Law 88-408 (1964)

  Government Record · 1964

  United States Congress

  The joint resolution Congress passed after the reported August 1964 attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin. It authorized the President to use military force in Southeast…

• Trump at the UN General Assembly: Iran and the Saudi Oil Attack (2019)

  Government Record · 2019

  President Donald J. Trump

  President Trump at the UN, September 2019: blamed Iran for the attack on Saudi oil facilities and announced sanctions. The government's position.

• U.S. Fire Administration: Maui Police Preliminary After-Action Report (2024)

  Government Record · 2024

  U.S. Fire Administration summary of Maui Police Department preliminary report

  U.S. Fire Administration: summary of the Maui police preliminary after-action report, with 32 recommendations on the police response.

• U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing: Industry Trends, Global Competition, Federal Policy (NIST AMS 100-49)

  Government Record · 2022

  National Institute of Standards and Technology

  NIST, 2022: the U.S. share of global chip-making capacity fell from 37 percent in 1990 to 12 percent in 2020, and Taiwan held 92 percent of…

• UC San Diego: Researcher Links Diplomats’ Illness to Microwave Radiation (2018)

  Document · 2018

  University of California San Diego

  UC San Diego, 2018: announced Golomb's study linking diplomats' illness to microwave radiation, which was done without funding.

• UN Commission of Inquiry: Legal Analysis of Genocide, A/HRC/60/CRP.3 (2025)

  Document · 2025

  UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel

  UN Commission of Inquiry, September 2025: concludes there are "reasonable grounds to conclude" Israel committed genocidal acts in Gaza from October 2023 to July 2025, finding…

• UN News: Beirut Port Explosion Investigation Advances (2026)

  News Report · 2026

  United Nations News

  UN News, August 2026 (French): Judge Tarek Bitar closed the Beirut port investigation in spring 2026 and sent the file to prosecutors. No trial date yet.

• UN Panel of Experts on Yemen: Final Report on the Abqaiq Attack (2020)

  Document · 2020

  Panel of Experts on Yemen

  UN Panel of Experts on Yemen, January 2020: the 2019 attack on Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil facility used drones and cruise missiles, and the Houthis were…

• Underminer Program Demonstrates Feasibility of Rapid Tunnel Construction (DARPA)

  Government Record · 2022

  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

  DARPA's 2022 release saying Underminer demonstrated rapid tactical tunneling and moved to partners. It does not say whether the 1,200-feet-per-hour target was reached.

• Underminer: Rapid Creation of Tactical Tunnel Networks (DARPA)

  Government Record · 2020

  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

  DARPA's 2020 announcement of Underminer, a program to build military tunnel networks fast with drilling, boring and robotics.

• UNDRR: The Beirut Explosion Could Have Been Prevented (2020)

  Document · 2020

  United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

  UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction: the 2020 Beirut explosion was 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port for six years without safety measures.

• United States Army Annual Financial Statement, Fiscal Year 2001

  Government Record

  Department of the Army

  The Army's own financial report for fiscal 2001, the year after Rumsfeld's $2.3 trillion speech. It states that because of the September 11 attacks, the Army…

• USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026: Rare Earths

  Government Record · 2026

  U.S. Geological Survey

  U.S. Geological Survey, 2026: China mined an estimated 270,000 of the world's 390,000 metric tons of rare earths in 2025, about 69 percent. Refining share is…

• USGS Minerals Yearbook 2020 to 2021: China

  Government Record · 2025

  U.S. Geological Survey

  U.S. Geological Survey: China produces about 90 percent of the world's refined rare earths and 99.9 percent of heavy rare earths.

• USGS: The 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence

  Government Record · 2020

  U.S. Geological Survey

  USGS: the July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes, a magnitude 6.4 and a 7.1, were shallow strike-slip quakes near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.

• Wag the Dog (1997): release record

  Document · 1997

  Rotten Tomatoes

  Catalog record: Wag the Dog, a film about a staged war to distract from a presidential sex scandal, opened December 25, 1997.

• Washington RCW 10.116.040: Police Ban on Military Equipment (2022)

  Government Record · 2022

  Washington State Legislature

  Washington State law, 2022: police may not acquire or use military equipment, including long-range acoustic devices and directed-energy systems.

• What we know about the Taylor Swift Pentagon psy-op conspiracy theory

  News Report · 2024

  Task and Purpose

  Task and Purpose, January 2024: presenter Alicia Bargar said she had no connection to the Pentagon and that Swift was only an example in her talk.…

• WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder Video Release (2010)

  Document · 2010

  WikiLeaks

  WikiLeaks, April 2010: released a classified U.S. military video of a 2007 attack in New Baghdad that killed over a dozen people, including two Reuters staff,…

• Written Testimony of Christo Grozev to the House Homeland Security Committee (2024)

  Government Record · 2024

  Christo Grozev

  Investigative journalist Christo Grozev's May 2024 written testimony to a House Homeland Security subcommittee, linking Russian intelligence Unit 29155 to Havana Syndrome cases.