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Good information listed so far–I've learned quite a bit.

This one is pretty obvious, but it's so critical it has to be said:

Wikileaks

https://wikileaks.org/

>Government Web Sites

You can learn a lot by digging on the names of groups and individuals listed

here:

US Treasury Sanction List

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Pages/default.aspx

The State Department and the C_A go hand-in-hand:

State Department Press Releases

https://www.state.gov/press-releases/

State Department Archives: Obama, GWB & Bill Clinton Presidencies

https://www.state.gov/u-s-department-of-state-archive-websites/

These committees often publish good documents:

House Committees

https://www.house.gov/committees

Senate Committees

https://www.senate.gov/committees/

Bills, Congressmen, and Senators

https://congress.gov/

>Image search engines

I tend to look up images first when digging, for several reasons:

1. it's a quick way to sift through a lot of information and zero-in on

what's relevant at the moment

1. you gain familiarity with faces, which allows you to recognize them in

other images where they might not be named

1. you can quickly see links between the subject and other people (in group

shots)

1. you sometimes find good meme material on the way.

2. you often come across foreign websites with good information that can be

translated (pic related: from Marc Dutroux's dungeon, from

https://urbexsession.com/en/marc-dutroux-house/

1. you often stumble across things that are even more interesting that what

you're currently digging on.

1. symbols will tend to lead you in the right direction

2. images give a lot more context than stories, usually

3. pictures can be devastating–Clinton with Epstein, McCain with

terrorists, the right picture at the right time could spark a revolution

Bing is my first stop, then duckduckgo or google images. Duckduckgo sucks

because they only give you a few pages of results; google seems to actively

censor relevant results.

'''Bing images"

Just go to bing.com, enter a search query and click on the "images" tab. Bing's

image search probably has the best layout of the major search engines–it

scrolls until there are no more relevant results (unlike duckduckgo), the layout

gets more images on the screen at a time, individuals are often identified in

images, and you can zero-in on parts of images (after clicking on them) to

search for part of an image–for instance, the face of a person or the jacket

they're wearing. You can also do a "visual search" by clicking on the icon next

to the magnifying glass icon in the search bar, then either dragging an image

over the area or entering a url.

Tineye.com: reverse image search

This website has been around for awhile. It tends to give good results, but

where it really shines is that it allows you to sort the matches by age, size,

and how much they have been modified. This allows you to find the website where

an image was first uploaded to the web (in theory), which often generates new

leads as well. Furthermore, you can often find larger versions of images with

more information–try it on the images Q posted of John McCain in Syria, for

instance.

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>Image Hosting Websites:

There are only two that are worth mentioning, as far as I can tell. These allow

you to do a search on a particular subject, and don't appear to censor as much

as the others. Moreover, they tend to be the best at showing important people

in non-newsworthy situations–great for both meme material and finding

relationships that otherwise wouldn't be known.

This one is fantastic–it has the added benefit of linking to other photo

websites:

Smugmug

https://www.smugmug.com/

This one seems to be the preferred site for many government bodies:

Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/

>Websites that sell images:

A lot of images don't make it into the news and don't show up in the search

engines, but are available for purchase at websites for purchase by news

organizations.

Getty Images

https://www.gettyimages.com/

Getty images has -tons- of images on celebrities, politicians, charity groups,

etc. attending /throwing things like charity events, awards ceremonies, etc.

These are in addition to images taken during significant events like wars,

senate hearings, trials, and more. The images are easy to search through, and

have a large watermark but are large themselves. They also tend to give some

backstory.

AP Images

http://www.apimages.com/

The second best out of the three, this is a good second choice if you can't find

what you're looking for at Getty Images. It's harder to sift through them due

to the smaller thumbnails, but you find good stuff here.

Reuters Images

https://pictures.reuters.com/

This one is the last choice. They either don't show all of their pictures,

censor some, or simply drop them after awhile. There are plenty of times that I

have seen images listed as being licensed through Reuters, but when you look for

them at this website they're nowhere to be found. This is particularly the case

for notable figures doing bad things (i.e., McCain in Syria). Still, it's worth

checking if all else fails.

You can also find images by searching the websites of individual photographers.

If I see an image that seems related to my investigation, I will search the

photographer's name for a website–you will often find other images related to

the same event that weren't bought by the newspapers or larger image companies