Intelligence Penetration
The Intelligence Penetration capture lane traces 916 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-09 | Office of Special Counsel Finds White House Social Media Director Dan Scavino Violated Hatch Act with Political Tweet Attacking Congressman
4 src Dan Scavino · Donald Trump · Justin Amash · Office of Special Counsel | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-01 | Anduril Industries Founded by Palantir Alumni with Thiel Backing, Building Autonomous Weapons Layer
2 src Palmer Luckey · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · Matt Grimm · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-01 | Trump Withdraws from Paris Climate Agreement Isolating America
3 src Donald Trump · Paris Agreement · Fossil Fuel Industry · United States · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-01 | WestExec Advisors Founded by Blinken and Flournoy: The Revolving Door Becomes a Business Model
2 src Antony Blinken · Michèle Flournoy · Avril Haines · WestExec Advisors | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-22 | TC Heartland v. Kraft: Supreme Court Limits Patent Forum Shopping, Curbing Eastern District of Texas Troll Haven
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · TC Heartland · Kraft Foods · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-17 | Rosenstein Appoints Robert Mueller as Special Counsel for Russia Investigation - Direct Response to Trump's Obstruction
3 src Robert Mueller · Rod Rosenstein · Donald Trump · James Comey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-10 | Trump Reveals Israeli Classified Intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Oval Office - Day After Comey Firing
2 src Donald Trump · Sergei Lavrov · Sergey Kislyak · H.R. McMaster · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-01 | Epstein Attempts to Blackmail Bill Gates Over Russian Affair
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Bill Gates · Mila Antonova · Anna Chapman | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-25 | DarkMatter Signs Strategic Surveillance Technology Agreement with Huawei, Facilitated by Erik Prince Network
3 src DarkMatter · Huawei · Erik Prince · Pegasus · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-15 | DOJ Begins Surveillance of Washington Post Journalists Reporting on Russia Investigation
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Ellen Nakashima · Greg Miller · Adam Entous · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-11 | Federal Court Rules Texas Voter ID Law Intentionally Discriminatory Against Minorities
4 src Texas Legislature · Federal Courts | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-07 | McConnell Invokes Nuclear Option, Eliminates Filibuster for Supreme Court Nominees, Gorsuch Confirmed 54-45
4 src Mitch McConnell · Neil Gorsuch · Chuck Schumer · Harry Reid · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-06 | Ivanka Trump Receives Chinese Trademarks During Xi Jinping Dinner
3 src Ivanka Trump · China · Xi Jinping · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-04-05 | Steve Bannon Removed from National Security Council After Unprecedented Political Appointment Sparked Bipartisan Outrage
3 src Steve Bannon · Donald Trump · H.R. McMaster · Michael Flynn · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-31 | Judge Curiel Approves $25 Million Trump University Settlement, Victims to Receive 90% Refunds
3 src Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-17 | Reuters finds Russians paid $98.4 million for Trump-branded Florida condos
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Russian buyers · Reuters | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-11 | Trump Fires Preet Bharara After Broken Promise to Keep Him - Obstruction Amid Trump-Related Investigations
3 src Donald Trump · Preet Bharara · Marc Kasowitz · Jeff Sessions · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-04 | Trump Falsely Accuses Obama of Wiretapping Trump Tower Based on "A Little Bit of a Hunch"
2 src Donald Trump · Barack Obama · James Clapper · James Comey | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-02 | Jeff Sessions Forced to Recuse from Russia Investigation After Perjury About Kislyak Meetings Revealed
2 src Jeff Sessions · Donald Trump · Sergey Kislyak · Dana Boente · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-03-02 | Ryan Zinke Opens Public Lands to Extraction While Profiting
3 src Ryan Zinke · David Bernhardt · Department of Interior · Halliburton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-28 | Trump Exploits Navy SEAL Ryan Owens' Widow at Congress Address to Deflect From Botched Yemen Raid He Approved
2 src Donald Trump · Carryn Owens · William Owens · Ryan Owens · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-15 | Cofer Black, Former Blackwater Vice Chairman and CIA Counterterrorism Chief, Joins Burisma Board
4 src Joseph Cofer Black · Erik Prince · Nikolay Zlochevskyi · Hunter Biden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-14 | Trump Asks Comey to "Let Flynn Go" in Private Oval Office Meeting
3 src Donald Trump · James Comey · Michael Flynn · Jared Kushner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-08 | Jeff Sessions Confirmed as Attorney General After Lying Under Oath About Russia Contacts
2 src Jeff Sessions · Donald Trump · Sergey Kislyak · Al Franken | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-08 | Kellyanne Conway Commits 50+ Hatch Act Violations, No Consequences
3 src Kellyanne Conway · Donald Trump · Office of Special Counsel · White House · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-08 | Trump Attacks Nordstrom Using Presidential Office to Promote Daughter Ivanka's Business After Brand Dropped
2 src Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Nordstrom · Sean Spicer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-02-01 | Rex Tillerson ExxonMobil CEO Becomes Secretary of State
3 src Rex Tillerson · ExxonMobil · Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-31 | Federalist Society Captures Federal Judiciary with $250M Dark Money
3 src Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Donald Trump · Judicial Crisis Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-30 | Deutsche Bank fined $630 million for $10 billion Russian money laundering scheme
3 src Deutsche Bank · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · New York Department of Financial Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-30 | Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Sally Yates for Refusing to Defend Muslim Ban
2 src Donald Trump · Sally Yates · Dana Boente · Jeff Sessions · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-23 | Trump Appoints Ajit Pai as FCC Chairman, Installing Former Verizon Lawyer to Regulate His Former Employer
3 src Donald Trump · Ajit Pai · Verizon Communications · Federal Communications Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-21 | Mar-a-Lago Membership Fee Doubles to $400K for Presidential Access
3 src Donald Trump · Mar-a-Lago · Chris Ruddy · Yujing Zhang · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Goldman Sachs Alumni Take Control of Trump Economic Policy
3 src Gary Cohn · Steven Mnuchin · Goldman Sachs · Dina Powell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Trump Organization Receives 3.6M from Foreign Governments
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Saudi Arabia · China · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | DeVos Confirmation Hearing Reveals Investments in Student Debt Collection - Ethics Review Incomplete
3 src Betsy DeVos · Performant Financial · RDV Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-17 | Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence After Brutal Imprisonment
3 src Barack Obama · Chelsea Manning · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-06 | Intelligence Community Assessment Concludes Putin Ordered Campaign to Influence 2016 Election
4 src Vladimir Putin · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-01 | Cytrox Established in North Macedonia as NSO Competitor
4 src Ivo Malinkovski · Cytrox · Israel Aerospace Industries · North Macedonia Ministry of Interior · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-12-13 | VEB Chairman Gorkov meets Kushner at Trump Tower
4 src Sergey Gorkov · Jared Kushner · Sergey Kislyak · VEB Bank | confirmed | |
| 2016-12-01 | Banking Committee Chairman Shelby Advocates for Financial CHOICE Act to Gut Dodd-Frank
3 src Richard Shelby · U.S. Senate Banking Committee · Wall Street · Dodd-Frank Act | confirmed | |
| 2016-11-30 | Amazon launches Rekognition facial recognition service, targeting law enforcement
3 src Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-11 | ACLU Exposes Geofeedia's Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests Through Social Media Platforms
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · Geofeedia · Twitter · Facebook · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-08 | Rumors Surface of Apprentice Outtakes Showing Trump Using N-Word, Burnett Refuses Release
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Burnett | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-03 | New York Attorney General Orders Trump Foundation to Immediately Cease Fundraising
3 src Eric Schneiderman · Donald Trump · Trump Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-13 | Washington Post Investigation Reveals Trump Foundation Used for Self-Dealing and Business Settlements
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · David Fahrenthold · Washington Post | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-12 | Indianapolis Star Investigation Exposes Nassar Abuse After FBI Sat on Allegations for 14 Months
3 src Indianapolis Star · Larry Nassar · Michigan State University Police · USA Gymnastics · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-09-01 | Apollo Global Management Acquires Constellis Holdings (Blackwater Successor) for Approximately $1 Billion
3 src Constellis Holdings · Apollo Global Management · Blackwater · Triple Canopy | confirmed | |
| 2016-08-10 | UAE Targets Human Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor with NSO Pegasus Spyware
3 src Ahmed Mansoor · Citizen Lab · NSO Group · UAE Government · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-29 | Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Law With "Surgical Precision" Ruling
4 src Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · Diana Gribbon Motz · North Carolina General Assembly | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-29 | North Carolina Voter ID Law Struck Down for Targeting African Americans
3 src North Carolina General Assembly · Governor Pat McCrory · Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-22 | WikiLeaks Releases 20,000 Stolen DNC Emails Three Days Before Democratic Convention
4 src WikiLeaks · Julian Assange · Russian GRU · Democratic National Committee · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-07-01 | Harvey Weinstein Hires Black Cube to Suppress Rose McGowan Allegations
4 src Harvey Weinstein · Black Cube · Rose McGowan · Stella Penn Pechanac · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-02 | Trump Attacks Federal Judge Curiel as "Mexican" Despite Indiana Birth, Paul Ryan Calls It "Textbook Racism"
3 src Donald Trump · Gonzalo Curiel · Paul Ryan | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-01 | Paul Manafort Shares Trump Campaign Data with Russian Intelligence
3 src Paul Manafort · Konstantin Kilimnik · Russian Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-01 | Trump University Victims Testify to Losing Retirement Savings, Disability Income to Fraudulent Scheme
3 src Donald Trump · Ronald Schnackenberg · George Hanus | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-31 | Judge Unseals Trump University Documents Revealing Predatory Sales Playbook Targeting Vulnerable Consumers
3 src Gonzalo Curiel · Donald Trump · Ronald Schnackenberg | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-09 | Twitter Blocks Intelligence Agencies from Using Dataminr for Social Media Surveillance
3 src Twitter · Dataminr · Central Intelligence Agency · In-Q-Tel | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-01 | Roger Stone Meets Russian National Offering Clinton Dirt for $2 Million
3 src Roger Stone · Michael Caputo · henry-greenberg · Russian Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2016-04-27 | Dennis Hastert Sentenced to 15 Months, Judge Calls Him 'Serial Child Molester'
3 src Dennis Hastert · Thomas Durkin · Scott Cross | confirmed | |
| 2016-04-03 | Panama Papers Expose Global Offshore Financial Networks
3 src Mossack Fonseca · Vladimir Putin · Petro Poroshenko · Nawaz Sharif · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-04-01 | JD Vance Joins Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital as Principal
3 src JD Vance · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital | confirmed | |
| 2016-03-16 | Obama Nominates Merrick Garland to Supreme Court, McConnell and Senate Republicans Refuse to Hold Hearings or Vote
4 src Barack Obama · Merrick Garland · Mitch McConnell · Chuck Grassley | confirmed | |
| 2016-03-15 | CDC Issues First Opioid Prescribing Guidelines, Twenty Years After OxyContin Launch
3 src Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2016-03-01 | FBI Works with Cellebrite to Crack San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone After Apple Refuses
4 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Cellebrite · Apple | confirmed | |
| 2016-03-01 | Trump Model Management Lawsuit Dismissed on Technicality Despite Evidence
4 src Alexia Palmer · Trump Model Management · Donald Trump · Federal Courts · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-02-16 | FBI Orders Apple to Break iPhone Encryption in San Bernardino Case
4 src Apple · Tim Cook · Federal Bureau of Investigation · James Comey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2016-02-13 | Justice Antonin Scalia Dies, McConnell Immediately Vows to Block Any Obama Nominee
4 src Antonin Scalia · Mitch McConnell · Barack Obama | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-05 | Snyder Finally Declares State of Emergency After Federal Investigation and Public Outcry
3 src Rick Snyder · Barack Obama · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Cambridge Analytica Deploys Harvested Facebook Data for Trump Campaign Electoral Manipulation
6 src Cambridge Analytica · Trump Campaign · Alexander Nix · Steve Bannon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Deutsche Bank Flags Suspicious Trump-Russia Transactions
4 src Deutsche Bank · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Russian money launderers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | Illicit Fentanyl Overtakes Prescription Opioids as Leading Cause of Overdose Deaths
3 src Drug Enforcement Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Illicit Fentanyl Suppliers | confirmed | |
| 2016-01-01 | J.D. Vance Joins Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital as Principal
4 src J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital | confirmed | |
| 2015-12-10 | NRA Leaders Travel to Moscow on Trip Arranged by Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin, Meet High-Level Russian Officials
3 src Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · National Rifle Association · David Clarke · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-12-01 | Guardian Exposes Cambridge Analytica's Unauthorized Facebook Data Use for Ted Cruz Campaign
3 src Harry Davies · The Guardian · Cambridge Analytica · Ted Cruz · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-11-29 | NSA Officially Ends Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Under USA Freedom Act
4 src National Security Agency · U.S. Congress · Barack Obama · Edward Snowden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-28 | DaVita Pays $450 Million for Drug Wastage Fraud, Largest Unjoined Whistleblower Settlement in History
3 src DaVita · Kent Thiry · Alon J. Vainer · Daniel D. Barbir · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-16 | Flint Switches Back to Detroit Water After 18 Months—But Damage to Children Is Permanent
3 src Rick Snyder · Dayne Walling · Flint City Government | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-03 | U.S. Airstrike Destroys Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, Kills 42
4 src Barack Obama · Doctors Without Borders · U.S. Air Force · Afghanistan | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-02 | Michigan Finally Confirms Lead Problem and Advises Filters—18 Months After Poisoning Began
3 src Michigan Department of Health and Human Services · Rick Snyder · Genesee County Health Department | confirmed | |
| 2015-09-24 | Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha Reveals Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Flint Children
3 src Mona Hanna-Attisha · Michigan Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2015-09-01 | Chainalysis Secures First Federal Contract with FBI for $9,000
2 src Chainalysis · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Internal Revenue Service | confirmed | |
| 2015-08-01 | David Pecker Agrees to Catch and Kill Negative Trump Stories at Trump Tower Meeting
5 src David Pecker · Donald Trump · Michael Cohen · Hope Hicks · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-07-28 | FBI Indianapolis Field Office Receives Nassar Allegations from USA Gymnastics, Fails to Open Investigation for 14 Months
4 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · W. Jay Abbott · Michael Langeman · USA Gymnastics · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-29 | NBC Fires Trump from The Apprentice Following Racist Comments About Mexican Immigrants
3 src Donald Trump · NBC | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-02 | Obama Signs USA FREEDOM Act, Ending NSA Bulk Metadata Collection
3 src Barack Obama · Mitch McConnell · Ron Wyden · Rand Paul · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-01 | Russian Internet Research Agency begins Facebook ad campaign to influence U.S. politics
3 src Internet Research Agency · Facebook · Yevgeny Prigozhin | confirmed | |
| 2015-05-07 | Second Circuit Rules NSA Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Illegal Under Patriot Act
3 src Second Circuit Court of Appeals · Gerard Lynch · National Security Agency · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 2015-04-08 | Russian Agents Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin Attend NRA Annual Meeting, Meet Federal Reserve Vice Chairman
2 src Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · National Rifle Association · Stanley Fischer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-02-18 | LeeAnne Walters' Water Tests Show Lead at 104 ppb—Nearly 7 Times EPA Limit
3 src LeeAnne Walters · Marc Edwards · City of Flint · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | confirmed | |
| 2015-02-03 | S&P Settles for $1.375 Billion Over Fraudulent AAA Ratings on Junk Mortgage Securities, While Moody's Pays $864 Million, Exposing 'Issuer-Pays' Conflict of Interest Model Where 73% of 2006 AAA-Rated Securities Were Downgraded to Junk by 2010
3 src Standard & Poor's · Moody's Investors Service · Fitch Ratings · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-02-01 | PredPol Predictive Policing Software Adopted by 60 U.S. Police Departments
3 src PredPol | confirmed | |
| 2015-01-01 | ABC News kills Amy Robach interview with Virginia Giuffre about Epstein network
3 src Amy Robach · Virginia Giuffre · ABC News · Prince Andrew · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2015-01-01 | Eastern District of Texas Patent Troll Haven: Judge Rodney Gilstrap Handles 25% of All U.S. Patent Cases, Forum Shopping Peak
5 src Rodney Gilstrap · Eastern District of Texas · John Roberts · Lex Machina | confirmed | |
| 2015-01-01 | Epstein and Barak invest in Carbyne surveillance tech founded by Unit 8200 chief
5 src Jeffrey Epstein · Ehud Barak · Pinchas Buchris · Peter Thiel · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-09 | Senate Intelligence Committee Releases Torture Report - CIA Program Was Brutal and Ineffective
4 src Dianne Feinstein · Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-12-09 | Senate Report Documents CIA Torture Worse Than Disclosed - Rectal Feeding, Mock Executions, Deaths
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · Gul Rahman · Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · James Mitchell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-22 | DaVita Pays $350 Million to Settle Doctor Kickback Allegations, Exposing Systematic Dialysis Profiteering Scheme
3 src DaVita · Kent Thiry · Department of Justice · HHS Office of Inspector General | confirmed | |
| 2014-10-01 | Chainalysis Founded to Provide Blockchain Forensics to Governments and Banks
3 src Chainalysis · Michael Gronager · Jonathan Levin · Jan Møller | confirmed | |
| 2014-09-17 | Apple Announces iOS 8 Encryption Makes iPhones Unlockable Even by Apple
4 src Apple · Tim Cook · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2014-09-02 | Eric Cantor Joins Wall Street Investment Bank for $3.4M After House Leadership
3 src Eric Cantor · Moelis & Company · House Republicans | confirmed |