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published by WikiLeaks were a large trove—over 20,000 pages released in serialized batches—that exposed internal communications from and illuminated , fundraising and speech excerpts, and political ma...
Fifty-one former U.S. intelligence officials signed an October 19, 2020 public statement saying the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop reporting “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information...
Available sources do not provide a definitive tally of how many U.S. citizens have been killed by U.S. drone strikes since 2001; major trackers and reports emphasize that precise counts — especially o...
On the public record, Donald Trump maintained extensive and sometimes controversial contacts, business pursuits, and campaign staff ties that intersected with Russian individuals and interests for dec...
Most credible counts in the provided reporting place the number of strikes during Barack Obama’s presidency at roughly 500–563 across Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia (examples: “563 strikes” reported by t...
Assessing the “world’s best intelligence officers” requires separating myth from metrics: operational success, technological reach, human tradecraft, legal constraints and political backing all matter...
U.S. intelligence has publicly declassified limited, contested material about Russian interference in the 2016 election and related contacts, including the January 2017 assessment that concluded Russi...
The United States publicly and forcefully blamed the Assad regime for the August 21, 2013 Ghouta sarin attack, made that assessment the basis for threatening military action and filing congressional a...
Declassified public evidence of Iran’s involvement in U.S. campus protests is limited to high-level U.S. intelligence assertions rather than detailed, publicly released documents; Director of National...
Leaders have repeatedly amplified or reframed external threats to mobilize support, justify policy shifts, or reprioritize resources — from modern U.S. National Security Strategy debates over which ri...
Classified U.S. intelligence assessments historically concluded that Russia sought to influence the 2016 election and favored Donald Trump; multiple official reports and later agency assessments reaff...
U.S. asylum-related intelligence assessments involve multiple agencies and senior officials, principally the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components (USCIS, CBP, ICE) for case process...
Available sources in the provided set do not mention any specific appointments or replacements of U.S. intelligence community (USIC) leaders by the Trump administration after April 2025; the documents...
U.S. intelligence agencies regularly assess foreign-state threats broadly (cyber, influence, coercion) and document adversary efforts that can target Americans, including journalists and public figure...
U.S. intelligence assessments in 2025 portray Vladimir Putin as committed to continuing and consolidating gains in Ukraine rather than seeking a near-term negotiated settlement, with officials telling...
Domestic terrorism in the United States is driven primarily by a mix of right-wing ideologies (notably white supremacy, anti-government extremism, and related subcultures), partisan/political extremis...
Current evidence does not definitively prove or disprove the COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis; intelligence and scientific bodies conclude that both , but most accessible scientific evidence favors a natu...
States use Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) both to expand intelligence collection and to streamline acquisitions and oversight, but recent reporting shows major . Legislative changes aim to centraliz...