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Friday's Release totals over 8,500 documents and includes phone messages, flight logs and manifests.

And today we're looking at documents so shocking that the government tried desperately to hide them from the public, only to fail.

Over time, that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up.

Smoking guns can come in many strange and disparate forms.

In 2005, it was the minutes of a meeting leaked to the press.

The Downing street memo detailed a secret conversation among British officials in 2002 regarding messaging strategies around the impending US invasion of Iraq.

Eight more documents from 2002 leaked to the Associated Press over the weekend, further suggesting that President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were determined to remove Saddam Hussein from power within weeks or at the latest months after 9 11, it revealed that Washington had already decided on war.

The document shattered the public narrative that war was a last resort or based on bad intelligence.

The US and the UK governments knew the truth beforehand.

The crucial question is why did they turn away?

Why did the Bush administration turn away from Al Qaeda and go to Iraq?

the memo showed the world how politics will shape the facts to justify invasion.

The Cold War arms race began straight after World War II.

As Germany surrendered, the US and the Soviet Union secretly recruited the Third Reich's highest scientists, engineers and intelligence officers.

It sounds like the plot of a film drama, but it actually happened.

Operation Paperclip brought more than 1,600 former Nazi personnel to America.

Their knowledge helped both NASA and America's military, military and intelligence strategies.

And the idea was certainly at the Pentagon and among the Joint Chiefs of Staff who were really running this program was if we don't get these Nazi scientists, surely the Soviets will.

The US also imported the Gehlen Organization, a former Nazi intelligence network.

Gellen was a key Cold War asset and a key intelligence partner in the CIA's early years.

For decades, the government tried to bury both whom they recruited and how far they'd go to undermine the progress of communism.

So this idea that you can just whitewash someone's past, I think is important to look into and to investigate so that that truth can be reconciled.

When the CIA even keeps secrets from the presidents, you know they did something horrible.

The family jewels was a 693 page internal report compiled in 1973 detailing decades of illegal and unethical operations.

CIA, America's spy agency, has just released nearly seven pages of declassified documents detailing decades of illegal activities.

There were domestic spying operations on journalists and anti war activists.

They created multiple assassination plots against foreign leaders and performed drug experiments on unwitting subjects.

The report was forced into the open after Watergate compelled journalists and Congress to poke around in shadowy corners.

There are people inside those agencies that were want truth to emerge if it doesn't hurt national interests.

The revelation sparked congressional hearings, public outrage and new oversight laws meant to rein in US intelligence.

The family jewels exposed how far the CIA had gone to protect itself from accountability.

There are all sorts of covert operations that people are now carrying out with the idea we'll deny it and then 30 years from now when we're all gone, we'll admit the 28 pages.

For years, one section of a congressional report was so sensitive it was literally torn out.

Dubbed the 28 pages, this portion of the 2002 joint inquiry into the 911 attacks was redacted completely.

The pages were locked away for over a decade, fueling speculation that the US government was protecting someone.

When declassified in 2016, the documents were shocking, but not terribly surprising.

Prior to 9 11, the FBI apparently did not focus investigative resources on on Saudi nationals in the U.S.

i continue to quote here due to Saudi Arabia's status as an American ally, they confirmed multiple connections between Saudi nationals and several of the hijackers.

They did not, however, reveal indisputable proof of official Saudi complicity.

I think it's important to have a full investigation and an understanding of the role of the possible role of the Saudi government.

The revelations deepened public mistrust and revived questions about oil alliances and accountability.

There are just reams of intelligence that are coming through constantly.

And some of that may be in the 20th pages.

If the Church committee exposed the CIA's crimes, the pike Committee showed how deep the rot went.

Seems to me like that's a classic definition, definition of COVID up.

Led by New York Congressman Otis pike, this House investigation dug into the CIA, NSA and FBI's black budgets and covert operations.

Unlike the Church Committee's cautious approach, Pike's team went straight for the jugular.

Congressman pike uncovered evidence of assassinations, coups and billions in untraceable funds.

They found the CIA had plotted to poison foreign leaders, bug allies and mislead Congress about secret wars.

I don't think any member of this committee takes the position that the CIA should be abolished.

The report was so explosive that the Ford administration refused to release it.

It revealed not just abuse of power, but the terrifying truth that America's spies were often operating unchecked.

I don't think the government has right to keep secrets.

It started with a single anonymous message.

What followed was one of the biggest leaks in human history.

In 2016, journalists exposed the Panama Papers 11.5 million files from the law firm Mossack Fonseca.

Mossack Fonseca say the services they provide are commonly used worldwide and they are responsible members of the global financial and business community.

The world learned the specifics of how the global elite hid trillions in offshore accounts and shell companies.

But as crazy as the structures behind anti overseas might seem, they are entirely legal in Panama.

The documents stretched back to the 1970s, implicating world leaders, billionaires, drug cartels and even FIFA officials.

Governments scrambled, protests erupted, and the prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan resigned.

The leak exposed a hidden world where for decades the rich and powerful had bought the system.

When Edward Snowden blew the whistle in 2013, he brought the world's attention to NSA's mass surveillance.

Among the leaks was the existence of Prism, a surveillance system that tapped tech giants like Google and Facebook to collect user data.

It's a program through which the government could compel corporate America.

It could sort of deputize corporate America to do its dirty work for the nsa.

The documents showed just how far the US would go to spy on its own allies and citizens.

What received less attention, though, was the money trail.

The black budget detailed how over 52 billion in taxpayer money was funneled each year into hidden intelligence programs.

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