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Nov 14, 2025
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trump colluded with russia

Reporting and official inquiries establish that Russia mounted a broad, state-directed influence campaign in 2016 that sought to help Donald Trump win, and investigators documented numerous contacts a...

Nov 11, 2025
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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...

Dec 18, 2025
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Where did Covid come from

The origin of COVID‑19 remains unresolved but two competing pathways dominate: spillover from animals into humans and an accidental laboratory release; U.S. congressional inquiries and recent White Ho...

Jan 31, 2026

What does the patriot act actually do (In laymen's terms)

is a broad 2001 law written to give and intelligence agencies faster, wider tools to detect, investigate and punish terrorism; in plain terms it loosened some rules about surveillance, access to third...

Dec 21, 2025

What documents have been released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act and what do they show about intelligence contacts?

The Department of Justice published an initial tranche of Epstein-related material — thousands of files including photos, contact lists, flight logs, court records and investigative memos — but the re...

Feb 6, 2026

what is the podesta email leak?

refers to thousands of emails taken from , ’s 2016 campaign chairman, that published in batches in October–November 2016, revealing internal campaign discussions and other communications and becoming ...

Jan 25, 2026

The last President lied and covered up the origins of a virus that killed millions of people.

The claim that “ and covered up the origins of a virus that killed millions” is not settled by the public record cited here: multiple official probes, partisan congressional reports, and intelligence ...

Jan 1, 2026

how can a polymath protec themselves from U.S. Intelligence communites

A polymath seeking to reduce scrutiny from U.S. intelligence agencies should align choices with the intelligence community’s stated priorities—chiefly AI, emerging technology acquisition, and provenan...

Dec 12, 2025

What evidence have U.S. intelligence agencies presented about Trump's ties to Russia?

U.S. intelligence agencies publicly judged in 2016 that Russia ran a coordinated influence and hacking campaign to interfere in the U.S. election and to help elect Donald Trump; that assessment rested...

Dec 5, 2025

What role did U.S. intelligence and law enforcement play in assessing and corroborating the dossier's allegations?

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...

Dec 2, 2025

What evidence supports claims of a coordinated Russian interference campaign in the 2016 U.S. election?

U.S. intelligence agencies and bipartisan congressional investigators concluded that Russia mounted a broad, multi-year influence operation in 2016 that included hacking Democratic organizations, a co...

Nov 19, 2025

What role did the US intelligence community play in investigating Russian knowledge about Clinton?

U.S. intelligence agencies led a multi-year, multi-agency effort to assess Russian interference in 2016 and whether Moscow sought to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton; the January 2017 Intell...