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Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2013 to 2017
Rob Reiner sat on the advisory board of the Committee to Investigate Russia alongside former senior intelligence officials, including James Clapper, establishing a documented public association betwee...
Barack Obama authorized large numbers of air and drone strikes overseas without seeking a new, specific Act of Congress; his administration relied on earlier congressional authorizations—most prominen...
The materials summarize competing claims that the “Russian hoax” narrative involved a mix of political operatives, intelligence officials, journalists, and private researchers who either promoted, inv...
The viral claim that "Trump ordered the arrest of Barack Obama" and that Tulsi Gabbard "revealed charges" against Obama is ; multiple contemporaneous sources show no evidence of an arrest order or cha...
Rob Reiner and James Clapper have a documented public association: Reiner hosted a recorded, public conversation with former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (and former CIA Director Jo...
The record shows sharp disagreement: human-rights groups, UN experts and some academics say Obama-era drone practices raised serious doubts about compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL), ...
Lawsuits and congressional pushback did arise over the Obama administration’s drone program, especially after the 2011 killing of U.S. citizen Anwar al‑Awlaki; civil-rights groups sued and Congress pr...
The reporting shows no credible allegation that John Brennan was charged in any assassination or murder-for-hire plot targeting Donald Trump; the criminal cases tied to such plots name other defendant...
Rob Reiner hosted public conversations and ran the Committee to Investigate Russia that featured former intelligence chiefs such as James Clapper and John Brennan, but the reporting provided shows tho...
Publicly available reporting and multimedia confirm that Rob Reiner and James Clapper have appeared together in at least one recorded public conversation and served on the same nonprofit advisory boar...
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...
The Obama administration primarily relied on two legal claims to justify drone strikes without new congressional authorization: the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) as continuing st...
A Justice Department task force and grand jury probes were opened this year to examine allegations that Obama administration officials manufactured or politicized intelligence about Russian activity i...
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 publicly concluded in late 2016 that the Russian government conducted a multi-faceted campaign to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and it took sanctions and o...
John O. Brennan has publicly rejected the allegation that he plotted against Donald Trump, denouncing the House Judiciary Committee referral for prosecution as and framing it as retaliation driven by ...
Recent reporting shows a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney and House Republican investigators have driven renewed scrutiny of Obama-era officials tied to the Russia investigation and other national-securi...
Available reporting shows recent releases of documents and statements claiming former President Barack Obama and his national security team were involved in manufacturing intelligence around the 2016 ...
Several post-2016 probes and later inquiries touched the question of whether the “Russia collusion” or “Russian hoax” narrative reflected misconduct or warranted fresh investigation. Reporting shows r...
The claim that "John Brennan is about to be indicted for a plot against Trump" is : none of the provided source analyses report evidence of an impending indictment, criminal charges, or official DOJ a...