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United States Attorney General from 2009 to 2015
The Obama administration carried out targeted strikes that killed at least one U.S. citizen — Anwar al‑Awlaki — and struck again days later in Yemen that killed his 16‑year‑old son Abdulrahman, also a...
President Barack Obama approved the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric, and U.S. strikes under his administration killed his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki in Yemen; source...
President Barack Obama’s administration ordered at least one lethal strike that killed a U.S. citizen abroad (Anwar al‑Awlaki in Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011) and U.S. officials later acknowledged U.S. dro...
President Obama’s administration authorized at least one deliberate targeted killing of a U.S. citizen abroad — Anwar al‑Awlaki in Yemen — and the Justice Department produced a confidential legal fram...
President Obama’s administration ordered drone strikes that killed at least one U.S. citizen, Anwar al‑Awlaki, and the administration acknowledged that U.S. strikes had killed several American citizen...
The available record shows mixed responses: the Department of Justice produced a large set of Epstein-related records to Congress but senior Justice officials, including Attorney General Merrick Garla...
The Obama administration ran a large targeted‑killing campaign using drones and other strikes—analysts count roughly 540–1,878 strikes during his presidency depending on counting methods—and the admin...
The claim that “Obama gave guns to cartels” refers to the ATF “gunwalking” controversy—most famously Operation Fast and Furious—an ATF-run sting that occurred partly during the Obama years and allowed...
Barack Obama’s administration conducted hundreds of drone strikes that independent researchers and rights groups say killed civilians overseas and acknowledged that U.S. citizens were among those kill...
President Barack Obama dramatically expanded U.S. use of drone and other air strikes, authorizing roughly 540–563 strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere that researchers and commentators sa...
The claim that “Obama ordered 4,200 drone attacks” and that those strikes were carried out “without Congress approval” is not supported by the reporting in the provided sources. Multiple reputable cou...
Available reporting and official acknowledgments show at least four U.S. citizens have been killed in U.S. drone or airstrike operations since 2001: Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress that fou...
The Obama administration massively expanded U.S. strike-by-drone operations compared with its predecessor and formalized a centralized legal and interagency approval process — while also taking increm...
Merrick Garland has been described in public records and committee actions as a recipient of congressional scrutiny over Jeffrey Epstein materials, but the available analyses show ; instead, he and ot...
Debate over Supreme Court reform in 2024–2025 centers on three recurring proposals: expand the Court’s size (“court‑packing”), impose term limits, and adopt a binding ethics code; advocacy groups and ...
The Obama White House justified airstrikes and lethal drone strikes primarily under three legal rationales: the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), the inherent right of self‑defense ...
George Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF) primarily fund civic, human rights, and advocacy organizations rather than directly underwriting political parties, though Soros’ personal and affil...
The Obama administration relied on internal Justice Department legal memoranda and a public, executive-branch framework that characterized members of al‑Qaida and “associated forces” as continuing imm...
The Obama administration’s legal justification for drone strikes that killed U.S. citizens combined the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)-based war powers and a classified internal Justic...
The Obama administration relied principally on internal Department of Justice legal memoranda—most prominently a July 2010 Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo and an earlier February 2010 internal lega...