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Office of the Director of National Intelligence

U.S. government national security agency

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Dec 10, 2025
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How many US drone strikes occurred under each president year-by-year from 2009 to 2025?

Public tallies of U.S. “drone strikes” from 2009 onward vary by compiler and by what operations they include: the U.S. DNI reported 473 strikes from Jan 20, 2009–Dec 31, 2015 and an additional 53 stri...

Jan 11, 2026
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has obama been arreasted

No credible reporting indicates that former President Barack Obama has been arrested; multiple fact-checks and news agencies have debunked viral claims and AI-generated videos purporting to show such ...

Nov 30, 2025
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Barrack Obama s crimes

Allegations that Barack Obama committed crimes range from accusations of manufacturing intelligence around Russia in 2016 to claims he committed “war crimes” for U.S. counterterror operations; major n...

Dec 2, 2025

How many military strikes did the Obama administration conduct in foreign countries between 2009 and 2017?

Different counts exist for how many military/drone strikes the Obama administration carried out abroad between 2009 and 2017: U.S. government tallies published by the Office of the Director of Nationa...

Dec 16, 2025

Is Venezuela a major source of fentanyl entering the United States?

Available reporting and government assessments show Venezuela is not a major source of the fentanyl that kills Americans; most illicit fentanyl reaching the U.S. is produced in or routed through Mexic...

Oct 1, 2025

Did Biden call parents who disagreed at school boards terrorists

President Joe Biden has not been shown in these materials to have explicitly labeled parents who disagreed at school board meetings as “terrorists.” The documents and reports provided instead address ...

Dec 2, 2025

Obama ordered 4200 drone attacks on men and women

The claim that “Obama ordered 4,200 drone attacks on men and women” is not supported by the available reporting in the provided sources. Major counts of U.S. drone strikes under President Barack Obama...

Oct 18, 2025

What role did the Israeli government play in the 9/11 investigations?

The available materials present two competing narratives: one claim that related to the 9/11 probe, and a set of administrative or news documents that . The most specific assertion appears in a single...

Oct 15, 2025

was 9/11 a false flag?

The claim that 9/11 was a deliberate operation implicating U.S. insiders is not supported by the primary official investigations and mainstream institutional accounts, which attribute the attacks to a...

Dec 12, 2025

Have any official investigations or indictments been launched against Barack Obama related to these allegations?

No criminal indictment of Barack Obama is cited in the provided reporting; federal prosecutors have opened grand-jury probes into allegations about Obama-era officials, but public sources here describ...

Dec 3, 2025

How many drone strikes occurred under the Obama administration by country and year?

Independent tallies vary, but several reputable counts put U.S. drone strikes during Barack Obama’s presidency in the mid‑hundreds: the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports 563 strikes in Pakist...

Dec 1, 2025

Are there verified reports that Barack Obama was arrested and what are the credible sources?

There are no verified reports that former President Barack Obama has been arrested; multiple fact‑checks and contemporary reporting identify such claims as false or based on AI/manufactured content . ...

Dec 12, 2025

What are the civilian casualty estimates from US drone strikes year-by-year from 2009 to 2025?

Precise year-by-year civilian casualty counts from U.S. drone strikes for 2009–2025 are not published in a single authoritative dataset in the sources provided; independent trackers (the Bureau of Inv...

Nov 11, 2025

There is no evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 and 2024 elections.

The claim that is false with respect to 2016 and contested but supported for 2024 by multiple U.S. government reports and major press investigations. U.S. intelligence agencies, special counsel findin...

Oct 21, 2025

What evidence supports the COVID-19 lab leak theory?

The evidence for a laboratory origin of SARS‑CoV‑2 remains contested and inconclusive: multiple recent peer‑reviewed reviews and international investigations find , while intelligence and independent ...

Dec 20, 2025

What criteria does the FBI use to classify a group as domestic terrorism?

The FBI classifies a group or act as domestic terrorism by applying statutory language—18 U.S.C. § 2331—and agency operational definitions that focus on unlawful violence (or threats) committed to int...

Oct 19, 2025

What are the criteria for labeling someone a terrorist in the US?

The U.S. government uses a mix of executive orders, presidential memoranda, and interagency processes to label individuals or organizations as terrorists, centering on whether they have committed or p...

Dec 19, 2025

How many drone strikes were carried out under the Obama administration by year?

Published tallies disagree sharply about how many drone or “air” strikes occurred during Barack Obama’s presidency because researchers use different geographies, agencies and definitions; independent ...

Nov 3, 2025

Did Obama administration investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election?

The Obama administration did respond to and investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election, but the scope, methods and timing of those actions were contested across multiple official reviews an...

Nov 29, 2025

Obama officials questioned by the FBI

A Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Miami, Jason Reding Quiñones, is conducting a broad probe that has subpoenaed or sought interviews from dozens of former Obama-era officials tied to the 2016 Russia ...