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has publicly released a set of declassified documents that include a previously classified 2020 majority staff report and contemporaneous emails and a whistleblower account related to 2016 intelligenc...
The archived record does not contain a publicly available, annotated “line‑by‑line” text of an majority staff report dated September 18, 2020, that can be reproduced here; public reporting instead doc...
John O. Brennan has publicly rejected the allegation that he plotted against Donald Trump, denouncing the House Judiciary Committee referral for prosecution as and framing it as retaliation driven by ...
concluded that mounted an “unprecedented” and aggressive campaign in 2016 that probed and targeted across the country, including scanning activity affecting all 50 states, but found no evidence that v...
remains an independent agency with its own directorates and internal organization, but it operates inside a web of statutory oversight and interagency relationships that constrain and coordinate its a...
Available reporting shows recent releases of documents and statements claiming former President Barack Obama and his national security team were involved in manufacturing intelligence around the 2016 ...
To prove that president is "compromised" by a foreign intelligence service requires concrete, multilayered evidence linking a foreign actor’s intelligence activity to the president’s actions, communic...
Federal applicants told a polygraph was “unsuccessful” have several administrative and legal pathways: internal agency appeals and retesting, requests for corroborating adjudicative information under ...
There are no publicly available, agency-wide statistics showing how often ICE applicants who “fail” polygraphs nevertheless obtain security clearances; the record in open reporting is silence on quant...
Officials have been publicly scrutinized for influencing or altering U.S. intelligence threat products before; the Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) is produced jointly by the National Intelligence Counc...
The probe into former Obama aides centers on declassified documents and public claims released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard and referrals to the Justice Department; those releases include a January 2017 uncla...
U.S. intelligence agencies and the FBI investigated Russian interference in 2016 and treated the Steele dossier as “raw” and largely uncorroborated reporting rather than a finished intelligence produc...
The 2025 reporting shows federal prosecutors used grand juries to subpoena presidential-era communications and related documents in multiple inquiries, including subpoenas seeking emails, texts and ot...
Carson’s memory-training methods are not directly documented in the supplied reporting, but cognitive science literature and recent applied work support core techniques often associated with “memory t...
A president cannot unilaterally sweep aside all legal limits and publish every document related to Jeffrey Epstein by signing an executive order; create enforceable limits that an executive directive ...