Chain of custody receipt

Source #6301

Cryptographic attestation that the document below was captured in Goblin House's archive at the timestamp shown, with the hash listed. If the original URL goes dark or its content changes, this receipt remains as evidence of what the public record looked like at capture time.

TitleWashington Post report citing Government Accountability Office findings on USASpending.gov completeness
Original URLhttps://www.usaspending.gov/federal_account/047-0108
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typediscovery_scope_note
Date2014-08-06
EntityCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Captured2026-04-13T03:03:04.237Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-13T03:03:04.237Z UTC
SHA-2560561de15971e0fe23197988a77fe9feb17f13c0d53387f1feb22a8e457514dd2
Content length158 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
CIA does not report contracting data on its classified programs and also doesn't disclose unclassified project awards to prevent revealing agency requirements

Verifying this receipt

The hash above was computed as:

sha256( coalesce(url, '<no-url>') || '\n' || raw_content )

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  1. Take the URL field and the original document content.
  2. Concatenate url + '\n' + content and SHA-256 it.
  3. Compare to the SHA-256 row above.

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  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/6301/receipt.json