FOIA
How a City Decides to Buy This Ridiculous $2,000 Weed-Smelling Device
Internal emails show how the "Nasal Ranger," which is like binoculars for your nose, is sold to cities and small towns.
Privacy Rights Group Sues DHS Over ‘Coercive’ DNA Tests at the Border
The EFF argues that DNA collection is a surefire way to violate privacy and human rights.
Bob Lazar Says the FBI Raided Him to Seize Area 51's Alien Fuel. The Truth Is Weirder
New documents obtained by Motherboard show why the FBI raided the Area 51 insider's scientific supply company.
This Cult From the 80s Was Patient Zero for Epstein and Pizzagate Conspiracies
The FBI just released new documents about 'The Finders,' which conspiracy theorists think was a CIA-linked child abuse cult. But were The Finders just misunderstood?
The U.S. Army Didn’t Even Use Tools it Bought from Hacking Team
A group focused on counterintelligence and insider threats purchased the malware, according to a FOIA response to Motherboard.
The NSA Uses Slack. Why?
The United States' top digital surveillance agency is using an off-the-shelf version of Slack. For what? They should tell us!
Revealed: This Is Palantir’s Top-Secret User Manual for Cops
Motherboard obtained a Palantir user manual through a public records request, and it gives unprecedented insight into how the company logs and tracks individuals.
The FBI Has Published Its Cache of Bigfoot Files
The FBI did forensic testing to learn if Bigfoot was real, official documents confirm.
Researchers Are Liberating Thousands of Pages of Forgotten Hacking History From the Government
Using FOIA, they’ve already published NASA’s official report about the infamous WANK worm.
‘Mutant Rabbit’ Lost By University of Michigan Laboratory, FOIA Docs Show
The University of Michigan was home to a series of animal deaths in 2018.
Here Are Hundreds of Pages of Official Documents About Predictive Policing in America
Motherboard is publishing several hundred pages of documents we obtained from police departments by using Freedom of Information requests.
Don't Fear the Green Reaper, the Department of Energy's Creepy Recycling Mascot
The unsettling costume was dreamt up by an employee at the agency that oversees America's nuclear stockpile.