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Office of the Director of National Intelligence

U.S. government national security agency

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Jan 21, 2026
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Did Obama get arested

that was arrested; multiple fact-checkers and news organizations have debunked circulating videos and posts that claim he was taken into custody, and those clips have been identified as miscaptioned f...

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...

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...

Jan 11, 2026

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 ...

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

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...

Jan 25, 2026

Where is Tulsi Gabbard?

is the ‑confirmed Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a role she took the oath to serve in , in 2025 . Reporting in January 2026 shows she has been publicly quieter and was excluded from planning...

Jan 30, 2026

What new documents has DNI Tulsi Gabbard released about 2016 intelligence and what do they actually show?

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

Jan 28, 2026

How did the White House and DNI office explain Gabbard’s role in national‑security decisions after the Venezuela raid?

publicly rejected characterizations that was sidelined from the operation, insisting she has the president’s confidence and played an analytical role, while highlighted Gabbard’s social‑media praise o...

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 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...

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 . ...