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The central allegation is that Representative Eric Swalwell had a past relationship with Christine Fang (also called Fang Fang), a Chinese national whom U.S. intelligence identified as a suspected Min...
Axios first reported in December 2020 that a Chinese national identified as Fang Fang (also Christine Fang) had cultivated political contacts, including fundraising and placing an intern for then–Dubl...
Roger Stone was convicted in federal court on seven felony counts arising from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of making false s...
Roger Stone was convicted in November 2019 on seven federal counts — five counts of making false statements to Congress, one count of witness tampering, and one count of obstruction of an official pro...
Coverage of Rep. Eric Swalwell’s contacts with Christine “Fang Fang” Fang shows she is described in multiple reports as a suspected Chinese intelligence operative who cultivated relationships with ris...
Barack Obama’s role in the Benghazi aftermath was as president overseeing the federal response and public messaging, a role that drew intense political scrutiny but for which multiple official inquiri...
Multiple congressional panels and prosecutors have sought access to former president Donald Trump’s financial and online-account records to probe potential conflicts of interest, foreign ties and crim...
Senator John Kennedy’s public attacks on Representative Adam Schiff rested chiefly on references to transcripts and memos he says undercut Schiff’s public claims about “direct evidence” of collusion b...
Multiple, primarily political accusations against Adam Schiff in 2025 center on alleged mortgage fraud and earlier claims tied to his role in the Trump–Russia investigations; the mortgage-fraud allega...
Adam Schiff is publicly accused by House Judiciary Committee leadership of leaking classified information during Donald Trump’s first term; Schiff the allegation and his office says the claim originat...
The FBI under Director James Comey opened and led an inquiry in 2016 into and possible links to the Trump campaign, a probe that later became the basis for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s work after ...
The Obama administration’s initial public response to the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attack combined immediate condemnation and promises of accountability with public messaging that tied the violence...
Multiple distinct ethics complaints and congressional censure resolutions filed or publicized against Adam Schiff have alleged two broad categories of misconduct: that he repeatedly misled the America...
Tulsi Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence, has publicly accused President Barack Obama and senior Obama-era national security officials of “manufacturing” an intelligence assessment about Ru...
Adam Schiff led the House’s investigation phase of the first Trump impeachment as chair of the House Intelligence Committee and was chosen by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve as the lead impeachment mana...
The Obama administration’s public handling of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi combined rapid public messaging, internal reviews, and a long series of congressional and public disputes about wha...
Fusion GPS was first hired in 2015 by the conservative website The Washington Free Beacon to do opposition research on Donald Trump; later, in April 2016, the law firm Perkins Coie — representing the ...
President Obama did not seek prior, full congressional approval for the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, but key congressional intelligence leaders were briefed about the intelligence and the po...
Eric Swalwell has been an active national-security voice in Congress — serving on Homeland Security subcommittees, pressing cybersecurity agencies like CISA, and coauthoring public statements on the N...
Newly declassified documents and statements from current DNI Tulsi Gabbard assert Obama-era officials ordered and shaped the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment and related messaging about ...