Internet Archive preserves most removed ODNI FOIA records
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Updated · Bloomberg · May 1
Internet Archive preserves most removed ODNI FOIA records
2 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 1
The records, more than 200 documents wiped from ODNI's reading room in May 2025, remain viewable through archived webpage versions after a Biden-era posting triggered the purge.
The cache includes intelligence memos, Kash Patel and Richard Grenell emails, material on Russia, China, climate change, surveillance, Havana Syndrome and some diversity training records.
Two items posted in 2023 and 2024 were missing or restricted in the latest archive captures, and ODNI has not identified the specific Biden-era document that caused the "fuss".
What was the mysterious document that sparked ODNI’s mass removal of FOIA records, and why is its identity still unknown?
How does the Internet Archive’s preservation of deleted intelligence documents challenge official attempts to erase public records?