Intelligence Penetration
The Intelligence Penetration capture lane traces 916 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1850–2026
Capture lanecorruptiondemocraticexecutivefinancialintelligencejudiciallaborlegislativemediamilitaryotherregulatory
Status
confirmed
alleged
disputed
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-18 | CatalanGate Reveals Systematic Pegasus Targeting of 65 Catalan Independence Leaders
3 src Citizen Lab · NSO Group · Pere Aragonès · Quim Torra · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-07 | Trump Removes Glenn Fine from Pentagon IG, Blocking $2 Trillion CARES Act Oversight
4 src Donald Trump · Glenn Fine · Carolyn Maloney · Mitt Romney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-03 | Trump Inspector General Friday Night Massacre Systematically Accelerates WHIG Oversight Destruction Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Operations
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Atkinson · Glenn Fine · Mitch Behm · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-01 | Trump Awards $812M No-Bid COVID Contract to Newly Formed Phlow Corporation
3 src Phlow Corporation · Peter Navarro · Kodak · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-07 | New York Times Exposes Erik Prince's Recruitment of Former Spies for Project Veritas Domestic Intelligence Operations
4 src Erik Prince · Richard Seddon · James O'Keefe · Project Veritas · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-27 | Fed Vice Chair Clarida Trades Millions Before Rate Cuts
4 src Richard Clarida · Federal Reserve Board · Jerome Powell · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-20 | DOJ Overrules Prosecutors' Roger Stone Sentencing Recommendation After Trump Tweet
4 src Roger Stone · Donald Trump · William Barr · Aaron Zelinsky · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-19 | Larry Ellison Hosts Trump Fundraiser at California Estate, Raises $7 Million
3 src Larry Ellison · Donald Trump · Oracle · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-13 | 2020 Congressional COVID Insider Trading Scandal Exposes Systemic Corruption
3 src Richard Burr · Kelly Loeffler · James Inhofe · Dianne Feinstein · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-11 | Bill Barr Intervenes to Reduce Sentences for Trump Allies Stone and Flynn
3 src Bill Barr · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-29 | WhatsApp Sues NSO Group Over Pegasus Spyware Attack on 1,400 Users
3 src WhatsApp · Meta · NSO Group · US District Court Northern California | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-25 | Maria Butina Released from Federal Prison and Immediately Deported to Russia After 15 Months
3 src Maria Butina · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Federal Bureau of Prisons · Russian Government | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-17 | Edward Snowden Publishes Memoir "Permanent Record"; DOJ Immediately Sues for Proceeds
3 src Edward Snowden · Department of Justice · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-07 | MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito resigns after concealing $7.5 million in Epstein-linked donations
4 src Joi Ito · Jeffrey Epstein · MIT Media Lab · MIT administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-03 | Pence's Ireland Trip Costs $3.6 Million with Detour to Trump Property
3 src Mike Pence · Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Doonbeg · U.S. Secret Service · State Department | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-26 | Trump Proposes Hosting G-7 Summit at His Doral Golf Resort
3 src Donald Trump · Trump National Doral · G-7 leaders · Mick Mulvaney | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-12 | Intelligence Community Whistleblower Files Urgent Complaint About Trump-Zelensky Call
3 src IC Whistleblower · Michael Atkinson · Joseph Maguire · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-10 | Epstein found dead in cell at 6:30 AM - cameras malfunctioned, guards slept, ruled suicide
4 src Jeffrey Epstein · MCC prison staff · FBI investigators · Medical examiner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-10 | Jeffrey Epstein Dies by Suicide in Federal Custody
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · William Barr · Bureau of Prisons · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-09 | Night before Epstein death - cellmate removed, cameras will malfunction, guards will sleep
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · MCC prison guards · Prison administration · Surveillance staff | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-28 | Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats Resigns After Repeated Conflicts with Trump Over Russia
4 src Dan Coats · Donald Trump · John Ratcliffe · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-24 | Mueller Testifies to Congress, Confirms Report Findings and Lack of Exoneration
3 src Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · House Judiciary Committee · House Intelligence Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-23 | Mark Esper Confirmed as Defense Secretary Despite Raytheon Lobbying Career and Refusal to Recuse
4 src Mark Esper · Raytheon · Donald Trump · Elizabeth Warren · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-06 | Jeffrey Epstein Arrested on Federal Sex Trafficking Charges
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Geoffrey Berman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · NYPD · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-28 | Raytheon GBU-12 Bomb Kills Six Civilians Including Three Children in Yemen Village Attack
3 src Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Amnesty International · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-27 | Axon Ethics Board Recommends Against Facial Recognition in Body Cameras, Company Agrees to Pause Development
3 src Axon · AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board · Barry Friedman | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-27 | Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Joins Pfizer Board After 3-Month Gap
3 src Dr. Scott Gottlieb · Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Senator Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-13 | Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Used Office to Benefit Family Shipping Business
3 src Elaine Chao · Mitch McConnell · Department of Transportation · Foremost Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-04 | Claims from Michael Wolff ('Siege') and later commentary; no public evidence of 'Trump money laundering' via Epstein
4 src Jeffrey Epstein · Michael Wolff · Donald Trump | disputed | |
| 2019-05-23 | Julian Assange Charged Under Espionage Act - Unprecedented Attack on Press Freedom
3 src Julian Assange · WikiLeaks · Department of Justice · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-21 | McGahn Defies Scheduled Congressional Testimony Despite House Subpoena
3 src Donald McGahn · House Judiciary Committee · Jerry Nadler · William Burck · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-05-07 | Don McGahn Defies Congressional Subpoena for Mueller-Related Documents
3 src Donald McGahn · White House · House Judiciary Committee · William Burck · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-26 | Federal Judge Sentences Russian Agent Maria Butina to 18 Months for Conspiracy to Infiltrate Conservative Movement
3 src Maria Butina · Tanya Chutkan · Department of Justice · National Rifle Association | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-18 | Mueller Report finds 140+ contacts between Trump campaign and Russians
3 src Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · Trump Campaign · Russian nationals · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-18 | Trump Administration Claims Absolute Immunity from Congressional Oversight, Systematically Accelerating WHIG Constitutional Crisis Precedent
8 src Donald Trump · Pat Cipollone · Don McGahn · White House Counsel Office · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-16 | Trump Vetoes Bipartisan Resolution to End U.S. Support for Saudi War in Yemen, Protecting MBS After Khashoggi Murder
4 src Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · U.S. Congress · Saudi Arabia government | confirmed | |
| 2019-04-09 | Trump Claims Absolute Immunity from Congressional Oversight
3 src Donald Trump · Pat Cipollone · Don McGahn · John Bolton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-21 | Federal Judge Rules Epstein Plea Deal Violated Crime Victims' Rights Act
3 src Kenneth Marra · Bradley Edwards · Paul Cassell · Alexander Acosta · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-14 | William Barr Confirmation as Attorney General Enables Systematic DOJ Politicization Using WHIG Template for Crisis-Accelerated Institutional Capture
5 src William Barr · Donald Trump · Senate Judiciary Committee · Department of Justice · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-05 | Trump Overrides 25+ Security Clearance Denials for Family and Allies
3 src Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Ivanka Trump · John Kelly · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-17 | HHS Inspector General Reveals Thousands More Children Separated Than Disclosed
4 src HHS Office of Inspector General · Donald Trump · Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | Intellexa Alliance Forms as "Star Alliance of Spyware" to Compete with NSO
4 src Tal Dilian · Intellexa · Nexa Technologies · WiSpear · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2019-01-01 | Noem uses state aircraft for political events violating state law
4 src Kristi Noem · National Rifle Association · Republican Jewish Coalition | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-15 | Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Resigns Facing 18 Federal Investigations
3 src Ryan Zinke · Donald Trump · Department of Interior · David Bernhardt | confirmed | |
| 2018-12-13 | Maria Butina Pleads Guilty to Conspiring as Russian Agent, Admits Years-Long Clandestine Influence Scheme
2 src Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · Department of Justice · Paul Erickson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-27 | Georgia Purges 1.4 Million Voters Under Exact Match System
3 src Brian Kemp · Stacey Abrams · Georgia Secretary of State Office · Common Cause Georgia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-20 | Trump Defends Saudi Arabia Despite CIA High-Confidence Finding MBS Ordered Khashoggi Murder - "Maybe He Did, Maybe He Didn't"
4 src Donald Trump · Mohammed bin Salman · Central Intelligence Agency · King Salman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-15 | Mexican Journalists Targeted with Pegasus Days After Colleague's Assassination
2 src Javier Valdez Cárdenas · Andrés Villarreal · Ismael Bojórquez · Citizen Lab · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-11-13 | Amazon Selects NYC and Arlington for HQ2—Extracting at Least $4.6 Billion in Subsidies
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Andrew Cuomo · Bill de Blasio · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-06 | Senate Confirms Kavanaugh 50-48 Despite Sexual Assault Allegations and Severely Limited FBI Investigation
4 src Brett Kavanaugh · Susan Collins · Joe Manchin · Lisa Murkowski · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-02 | Jamal Khashoggi Murdered Inside Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by 15-Member Hit Squad Sent by Crown Prince MBS
4 src Jamal Khashoggi · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia government · Turkish intelligence · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-09-27 | Christine Blasey Ford Delivers Credible, Emotional Testimony Alleging Kavanaugh Sexual Assault, He Responds with Partisan Rant
4 src Christine Blasey Ford · Brett Kavanaugh · Lindsey Graham · Chuck Grassley · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-09 | US-Made Bomb Kills 40 Children on School Bus in Yemen, Triggering International Outrage
4 src Lockheed Martin · Raytheon · General Dynamics · Saudi Arabia · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-03 | Kushner Receives $1.28B Qatar Bailout After Blockade Reversal
3 src Jared Kushner · Qatar Investment Authority · Brookfield Property Partners · Charles Kushner · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | Guo Wengui Begins Funding Steve Bannon Operations
3 src Guo Wengui · Miles Guo · Steve Bannon · Guo Media · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-19 | Senate Votes 98-0 to Reject Putin's Request to Interrogate U.S. Officials in Bipartisan Rebuke of Trump
4 src Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · Chuck Schumer · Michael McFaul · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-17 | Trump Claims He Misspoke "Would" Instead of "Wouldn't" in Implausible Helsinki Walkback Attempt
3 src Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-16 | Trump Sides with Putin Over U.S. Intelligence at Helsinki Summit, Attacks Own Agencies
4 src Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · Dan Coats · John Brennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-15 | FBI Arrests Maria Butina for Conspiring to Act as Russian Agent to Infiltrate Conservative Organizations
3 src Maria Butina · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Alexander Torshin · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-07-13 | Mueller Indicts 12 GRU Officers for Hacking DNC and Democratic Campaign Infrastructure
3 src Robert Mueller · Russian Intelligence (GRU) · Russian Military Intelligence · Democratic National Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-23 | Peter Thiel Receives First Putin Meeting Invitation Through Russian Diplomat
3 src Peter Thiel · Vladimir Putin · Daniil Bisslinger · Christian Angermayer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-20 | Trump Signs Executive Order "Ending" Family Separation After International Outcry
4 src Donald Trump · Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · Stephen Miller | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-15 | Northrop Grumman Wins $217 Million Cyber Warfare Contract for Unified Platform
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Cyber Command · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-01 | Trump Family Separation Policy Detains 5,500 Children in Cages
3 src Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Jeff Sessions · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-31 | European Court Finds Romania and Lithuania Hosted CIA Torture Sites, Orders Damages
4 src European Court of Human Rights · Romania · Lithuania · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-15 | Kansas City Fed Approves Reserve Trust Master Account After Alleged Intervention
3 src Sarah Bloom Raskin · Reserve Trust Company · Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City · Esther George · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-13 | Trump Reverses ZTE Sanctions After $500M China Loan to Trump Project
3 src Donald Trump · ZTE Corporation · China · Trump Organization · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-05-10 | Kirstjen Nielsen Defends Family Separation as Deterrent, Later Denies Policy Exists
4 src Kirstjen Nielsen · Jeff Sessions · Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-22 | Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 23 at Yemen Wedding, Majority Women and Children
4 src Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-22 | UAE Installs Pegasus Spyware on Khashoggi's Wife's Phone Months Before His Murder
3 src Hanan Elatr · Jamal Khashoggi · UAE Government · NSO Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-06 | Jeff Sessions Announces "Zero Tolerance" Policy Designed to Separate Families
4 src Jeff Sessions · Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-04-01 | T-Mobile Executives Spend 95K at Trump Hotel During Merger Review
3 src T-Mobile · John Legere · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-17 | Cambridge Analytica Scandal Exposed by Whistleblower Christopher Wylie
5 src Christopher Wylie · Cambridge Analytica · Facebook · Aleksandr Kogan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-16 | Facebook Suspends Cambridge Analytica and SCL After Whistleblower Revelations
4 src Facebook · Cambridge Analytica · SCL Group · Christopher Wylie · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-13 | Trump Nominates Gina Haspel as CIA Director Despite Role in Torture Program and Evidence Destruction
4 src Gina Haspel · Donald Trump · Mike Pompeo · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-01 | James Biden Receives $600K from Distressed Healthcare Company, Pays Joe Biden $200K Same Day
3 src James Biden · Joe Biden · Americore Health · Sara Biden | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Apple Receives Special Tariff Exemptions After CEO Cultivates Trump Relationship
4 src Donald Trump · Tim Cook · Apple Inc. | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Attends Koch Network Donor Summit - Supreme Court Ethics Violations
2 src Clarence Thomas · Koch Network · Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 2018-01-01 | Peter Thiel's Early Intelligence Role: FBI Informant and Russian Diplomatic Contacts
4 src Peter Thiel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Vladimir Putin · Daniil Bisslinger · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-11 | Betsy DeVos Blocks Debt Relief for 200,000 Defrauded For-Profit College Students Despite Career Staff Recommendations
4 src Betsy DeVos · U.S. Department of Education · Corinthian Colleges · ITT Technical Institute | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-24 | Trump Installs Mick Mulvaney as CFPB Acting Director, Beginning Systematic Gutting of Consumer Protection Agency
4 src Mick Mulvaney · Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-20 | Amazon Launches AWS Secret Region for CIA and Intelligence Community
3 src Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-05 | Paradise Papers Expose Global Elite's Systematic Offshore Financial Manipulation
3 src Appleby · Estera · Queen Elizabeth II · Wilbur Ross · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-05 | Paradise Papers Reveal Commerce Secretary Ross Concealed Stake in Russian-Linked Shipping Company
3 src Wilbur Ross · Kirill Shamalov · Gennady Timchenko · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2017-11-01 | Kushner Shares Classified Intel Leading to Saudi Mass Arrests
3 src Jared Kushner · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-26 | Trump Declares Opioid Public Health Emergency Without Requesting Any New Funding
3 src Donald Trump · Eric Hargan · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-05 | CFPB Finalizes Payday Lending Rule Requiring Ability-to-Repay Assessment After Industry Spent $13 Million Lobbying
4 src Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Community Financial Services Association of America · Jeb Hensarling | confirmed | |
| 2017-10-05 | George Papadopoulos Becomes First Trump Campaign Official to Plead Guilty in Mueller Probe
4 src George Papadopoulos · Joseph Mifsud · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-29 | HHS Secretary Tom Price Resigns After $1 Million Private Jet Scandal
6 src Tom Price · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2017-09-26 | Ramaswamy's Axovant Alzheimer drug fails, stock crashes 75% after pump-and-dump
3 src Vivek Ramaswamy · Axovant Sciences · Roivant Sciences · GlaxoSmithKline | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-15 | Trump Defends White Nationalists with "Very Fine People On Both Sides" Remarks
3 src Donald Trump · Heather Heyer · James Alex Fields Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-12 | White Supremacist Rally in Charlottesville Ends with Heather Heyer Murdered by Neo-Nazi
3 src James Alex Fields Jr. · Heather Heyer · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-01 | Courts Strike Down North Carolina Racial Gerrymandering, Legislature Redraws With Explicit Partisan Intent
3 src North Carolina General Assembly · David Lewis · Robert Rucho · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-01 | Equifax Executives Sell $1.8 Million in Stock Days After Discovering Massive Data Breach
3 src John Gamble · Joseph Loughran · Rodolfo Ploder · Equifax · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-08-01 | Intelligence-Media Pipeline Matures: Six Former Intelligence Directors Simultaneously Hold Cable News Analyst Positions
2 src James Clapper · John Brennan · Michael Hayden · Michael Morell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-07-19 | Netanyahu Meets Visegrad Leaders in Budapest Before Hungary and Poland Purchase Pegasus
3 src Benjamin Netanyahu · Viktor Orban · Beata Szydło · Mateusz Morawiecki · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-07-01 | Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp Purges 560,000 Voters in Single Day Using "Exact Match" System
4 src Brian Kemp · Brad Raffensperger | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-19 | Citizen Lab Exposes Mexican Government Targeting of Journalists and Activists with Pegasus
3 src Citizen Lab · NSO Group · Mexican Government · Carmen Aristegui · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-16 | Anduril Industries Founded by Palmer Luckey and Former Palantir Executives
2 src Palmer Luckey · Peter Thiel · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-14 | DeVos Freezes Borrower Defense Rule Protecting Defrauded Students - States Sue for Unlawful Delay
3 src Betsy DeVos · Maura Healey | confirmed |