Claire Dorfman
@cldorfman.bsky.social
Analyst, Asst. Director, Mexico Project @nsarchive.bsky.social
The Long Shadow of Dos Erres: Canadian Court Sanctions Perpetrator of 1982 Dos Erres Massacre in Guatemala -- @nsarchive.bsky.social publishes key records from the trial nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Long Shadow of Dos Erres
Washington, D.C., February 24, 2026 - After a decade-long investigation and a trial lasting more than five weeks, a federal court in Ottawa has ruled to revoke the Canadian citizenship of a Guatemalan...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
The @nsarchive.bsky.social is one of the best resources on the web on the declassified history of U.S.-Iran relations, the 1953 coup, the 1979 hostage crisis, and more. nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/iran...
CIA Intelligence Assessment: "The Strait of Hormuz: A Vulnerable Lifeline," Secret, July 1979.
Wrote a chronology of 2025’s biggest data losses (and restorations!) for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social’s April Passport issue. Be sure to also check out the issue’s moving tribute to my former @nsarchive.bsky.social colleague Bill Burr. Bill, you are so missed.
Passport@passportshafr.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur April issue is online! Featuring a roundtable on Aileen Teague's new book, an interview with Renata Keller, a chronology of disappearing data, a tribute to Thomas Knock, and much more! www.shafr.org/passport-apr... Sure to be of interest to all @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
thenation.com
My comment in this week's @newyorker.com is about an American nightmare two decades in the making. DHS agencies that have long operated with relative impunity are becoming the personal army of an authoritarian President. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why the D.H.S. Disaster in Minneapolis Was Predictable
For decades, ICE and Border Patrol have operated with fewer constraints than typical law-enforcement agencies.
newyorker.com
Incredible piece from @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social today on Bill Barr, Noriega, and the kidnapping of Maduro. Barr can also be remembered for dismantling the Cienfuegos case in 2020 by dropping drug trafficking and money laundering charges against Mexico's former SecDef. The more things change..!
BTW, this video is getting scrubbed by CBS/Weiss on copyright claims all over the place. As usual, @ddosecrets.com steps up. You can grab it here when the youtube or other copies go down: www.ddosecrets.com/article/insi...
Inside CECOT - Distributed Denial of Secrets
A copy of the 60 Minutes' segment Inside CECOT, which was censored by Bari Weiss shortly before it was due to air. Through an apparent error, the segment was briefly uploaded to the Global TV app bef...
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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 8mo agoBREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
The "rock 'n' roll asault" on Noriega: during the invasion of Panama, U.S. troops blasted music over loudspeakers at the Vatican Embassy, where Noriega had taken refuge. We got the SOUTHCOM playlist through FOIA. It's kind of...amazing
Today we published our 40 top documents to celebrate 40 years of @nsarchive.bsky.social. One of my favorites: Kissinger tells Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs "the illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer."
Eugene Hasenfus, whose 1986 capture in Nicaragua exposed the Iran-Contra scandal, has died at 84. The National Security Archive has published important documents on Hasenfus and the "off-the-shelf" covert operations run by the Reagan White House to sustain the Contra war.
May there be a million more boats, until Palestine is free 🇵🇸
Release the Hostages! Break the Siege!
Nearly 500 members of the Global Sumud Flotilla—including my friend and comrade Logan—have been taken prisoner by Israel for attempting to deliver aid to the victims of US-backed genocide in Gaza.
maxgranger.substack.com
The DEA and Ayotzinapa: Intercepted Text Messages Contain Critical Information About the Night in Iguala (Click below to read) nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The DEA and Ayotzinapa
Washington, D.C., September 26, 2025 - The eleventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa college brings a grim reckoning. To date, no one has been held ...
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⭐️ Drop Site News, with Unmute Humanity, has launched the Gaza Journalist Fund to help 29 vetted reporters evacuate Gaza City and survive displacement in the south. Please give: gazafund.dropsitenews.com
Gaza Journalist Fund
Supporting Journalists Evacuating Gaza City and Surviving Displacement in the South
gazafund.dropsitenews.com
el informe ya disponible en esp léanlo :-) @nsarchive.bsky.social @katidoyle.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
Invisible, silenciado y casi abandonado: El Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala en su vigésimo aniversario
Washington, D.C., 4 de septiembre de 2025 - Hace veinte años, un grupo de investigadores de derechos humanos en Guatemala se topó con un enorme archivo que contenía millones de registros históricos pe...
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I question the editorial judgement of presenting the paramilitarization of armed groups in Michoacán without a strong emphasis on precisely where 70-90% of the weapons are coming from and where the knowhow for explosive-laden drones came from and when it started. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
With Drones and I.E.D.s, Mexico’s Cartels Adopt Arms of Modern War
nytimes.com
“What we’re seeing under a second Trump administration is an unprecedented, rapid deletion and distortion of climate data and resources,” climate change researcher @rsanta.bsky.social told @laurenleharper.bsky.social.
How climate change researcher Rachel Santarsiero makes FOIA work
The challenges are steep, but persistence can pay off
freedom.press
"Guatemala's celebrated police archive is a shadow of its former self—a hollowed-out institution operating at drastically reduced levels that has little contact with the public it is supposed to serve." Read the new report on the fragile state of Guatemala's AHPN. nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
Invisible, Silenced, and All but Abandoned: The Guatemalan Historical Archive of the National Police on Its 20th Anniversary
Washington, D.C., August 20, 2025 - Twenty years ago, a group of human rights investigators in Guatemala stumbled upon an enormous archive containing millions of historical records belonging to the co...
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New report with @katidoyle.bsky.social on 20 years of Guatemala's Historical Archive of the National Police nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
Invisible, Silenced, and All but Abandoned: The Guatemalan Historical Archive of the National Police on Its 20th Anniversary
Washington, D.C., August 20, 2025 - Twenty years ago, a group of human rights investigators in Guatemala stumbled upon an enormous archive containing millions of historical records belonging to the co...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
Israel's war on Gaza has killed more than 80,000 Palestinians since October 2023. Israel is deliberately starving the people of Gaza while bombing and shooting the Palestinians who come to food distribution sites. To defend that is a massive moral failure.
Noah Samsen@nsamsen.bsky.social · last yr.This is from TODAY. Utter lunacy
NEW: We spoke with the families of some of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared to El Salvador in March. Horror stories are already emerging. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"We were kidnapped"
On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is making it increasingly difficult to obtain federal records and shed light on how it operates. FOIA is "certainly on life support," Lauren Harper told @davelevinthal.com in @msnbc.com.
Opinion | It's not just the Epstein files. The Trump administration is withholding all kinds of public records.
Freedom of Information Act requests are regularly being ignored and rebuffed.
msnbc.com
As federal spending to prepare and respond to the growing threat of weather-related disasters is being slashed, a massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to arms contractors is underway. [1/2] www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Deadly floods could be new normal as Trump guts federal agencies, experts warn
Trump’s ‘cuts and chaos’ to agencies are opposite of what’s needed for era of worsening weather disasters, experts say
theguardian.com
As many of us have been saying forever: one of the problems with insisting the state focus on targeting “criminals,” as democrats always do, is that criminals are ipso facto whoever the state decides they are—including, eventually, you.
Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for criminal offenses
Memo says those subjected to civil proceedings are not entitled to an attorney like they are in criminal cases
theguardian.com
My latest @nsarchive.bsky.social piece is a 45-document deep dive tracing 25+ years of US intel agencies analyzing climate threats--from Arctic ice melt to global food, water, and migration risks. But the docs also reveal a deeply siloed approach to climate intel: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Spying on Climate: Inside the Intelligence Community’s Environmental Legacy
Washington, D.C., June 30, 2025 – For decades, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has viewed climate change as a serious national security threat that will create “new and compounded stresses on peo...
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The Journalists Association of El Salvador estimates that 40 journalists have had to leave the country in the last month as President Nayib Bukele has escalated his crackdown on his critics. Several are reporters at ICIJ media partner @elfaro.net.
At least 40 journalists have fled El Salvador, fearing imprisonment - ICIJ
The country’s press association said reporters have been forced to leave the Central American country amid the government’s crackdown on dissent.
icij.org
I wrote about death and disappearance at the border, and the bipartisan fascism of the US deportation/detention machine.
“I don’t know where the bones come from”
On death and dehumanization at the border, and the long arc of American fascism
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