Claire Dorfman
@cldorfman.bsky.social
Analyst, Asst. Director, Mexico Project @nsarchive.bsky.social
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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
October 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
May there be a million more boats, until Palestine is free 🇵🇸
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The DEA and Ayotzinapa: Intercepted Text Messages Contain Critical Information About the Night in Iguala (Click below to read)
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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 ...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
September 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The DEA and Ayotzinapa: Intercepted Text Messages Contain Critical Information About the Night in Iguala (Click below to read)
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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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
Please give: gazafund.dropsitenews.com
Gaza Journalist Fund
Supporting Journalists Evacuating Gaza City and Surviving Displacement in the South
gazafund.dropsitenews.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
⭐️ 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
Please give: gazafund.dropsitenews.com
el informe ya disponible en esp léanlo :-) @nsarchive.bsky.social @katidoyle.bsky.social
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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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September 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
el informe ya disponible en esp léanlo :-) @nsarchive.bsky.social @katidoyle.bsky.social
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
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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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
With Drones and I.E.D.s, Mexico’s Cartels Adopt Arms of Modern War
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
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“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
August 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“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.
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"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...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
August 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"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...
New report with @katidoyle.bsky.social on 20 years of Guatemala's Historical Archive of the National Police
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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
August 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
New report with @katidoyle.bsky.social on 20 years of Guatemala's Historical Archive of the National Police
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/guatema...
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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.
July 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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.
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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...
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.
www.motherjones.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I have so many questions
🚨The Trump administration says it has arranged with the Maduro regime to be able to bring back any of the deported Venezuelans for legal proceedings if ordered by a court. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
July 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I have so many questions
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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.
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.
www.msnbc.com
July 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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.
FOIA is "certainly on life support," Lauren Harper told @davelevinthal.com in @msnbc.com.
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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
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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...
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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
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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.
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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:
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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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June 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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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.
www.icij.org
June 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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.
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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
maxgranger.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I wrote about death and disappearance at the border, and the bipartisan fascism of the US deportation/detention machine.
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Here is my latest article with @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the @nsarchive.bsky.social on the U.S. role in the 1963 coup and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. We included some eye-popping documents in this one.
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A House Divided: Washington, Langley, Saigon, and the Plot Against Diem
Washington, D.C., May 22, 2025 - Early in the morning of October 7, 1963, the top leadership of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) gathered in the office of the Director of Central Intelligence (DC...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
May 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Here is my latest article with @lucatrenta.bsky.social for the @nsarchive.bsky.social on the U.S. role in the 1963 coup and assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm. We included some eye-popping documents in this one.
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Lo más reciente del Archivo de Seguridad Nacional sobre la colaboración larga y secreta entre México y los EEUU.
@nsarchive.bsky.social @cldorfman.bsky.social
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...
@nsarchive.bsky.social @cldorfman.bsky.social
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...
La CIA y México espiaron a diplomáticos cubanos y soviéticos hasta 1994
Fueron "reclutados", sin que supieran: Ricardo Garibay, Manuel Carballido, Alicia Reyes y Francisco Zendejas, entre otros intelectuales.
www.jornada.com.mx
May 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Lo más reciente del Archivo de Seguridad Nacional sobre la colaboración larga y secreta entre México y los EEUU.
@nsarchive.bsky.social @cldorfman.bsky.social
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...
@nsarchive.bsky.social @cldorfman.bsky.social
www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025...
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JFK Files Detail Close Intelligence Collaboration Between CIA and Mexico (click below to read the documents and analysis from @cldorfman.bsky.social)
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JFK Files Detail Close Intelligence Collaboration Between CIA and Mexico
Washington, D.C., May 19, 2025 – Mexico welcomed CIA espionage activities in Mexico during the Cold War and even initiated some of them, according to recently declassified documents published today by...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
May 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
JFK Files Detail Close Intelligence Collaboration Between CIA and Mexico (click below to read the documents and analysis from @cldorfman.bsky.social)
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nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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23 years ago I published my first @nsarchive.bsky.social electronic briefing book on Colombia. It's way too long (three volumes!), but some of the documents were featured in the @nytimes.com later that month, so all the work was worth it! Gift link below: www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/w...
May 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
23 years ago I published my first @nsarchive.bsky.social electronic briefing book on Colombia. It's way too long (three volumes!), but some of the documents were featured in the @nytimes.com later that month, so all the work was worth it! Gift link below: www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/w...
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What does it mean to represent a ghost in court? My latest at @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Trump’s Deportees to El Salvador Are Now “Ghosts” in U.S. Courts
Even as the Administration refuses to reveal the names of those it has deported under the Alien Enemies Act, a network of lawyers and advocates is fighting to keep their cases alive.
www.newyorker.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
What does it mean to represent a ghost in court? My latest at @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Archive is troubled to learn that President Trump yesterday fired all nine members of the State Department's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a statutory body that has operated without presidential interference for over 20 years. history.state.gov/about/hac/in...
May 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Archive is troubled to learn that President Trump yesterday fired all nine members of the State Department's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, a statutory body that has operated without presidential interference for over 20 years. history.state.gov/about/hac/in...
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This is an amazing and important resource. Disappearing people is not “immigration policy.” It’s government repression.
May 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is an amazing and important resource. Disappearing people is not “immigration policy.” It’s government repression.
Latin America has a long and brutal legacy of enforced disappearance. But there's an equally long legacy of human rights defenders who have fought back. Join us next Wednesday to hear from Mercedes Doretti @eaafoficial.bsky.social, Juan E. Mendez, and @marcelaturati.bsky.social.
📢 Join us next week for an event hosted by WOLA and the National Security Archive: "Lessons from Latin America as the United States Reckons with Enforced Disappearance"
🗓️ Wednesday, April 30, 2025
🕑 2:00 – 3:30 PM ET
🔗 Register here: action.wola.org/a/lessons-la...
🗓️ Wednesday, April 30, 2025
🕑 2:00 – 3:30 PM ET
🔗 Register here: action.wola.org/a/lessons-la...
April 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Latin America has a long and brutal legacy of enforced disappearance. But there's an equally long legacy of human rights defenders who have fought back. Join us next Wednesday to hear from Mercedes Doretti @eaafoficial.bsky.social, Juan E. Mendez, and @marcelaturati.bsky.social.