Intelligence Penetration
The Intelligence Penetration capture lane traces 916 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
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10 actors · 1850–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-07-24 | European Court Rules Poland Violated Human Rights by Hosting CIA Torture Black Site
4 src European Court of Human Rights · Poland · Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-16 | EU and US Impose Sectoral Sanctions on Russia
4 src European Union · United States · Sberbank · VEB · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-01 | Academi (formerly Blackwater) Merges with Triple Canopy to Form Constellis Holdings, Third Corporate Rebranding
3 src Academi · Triple Canopy · Constellis Holdings · Blackwater | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-28 | Facebook Emotional Contagion Experiment Revealed
4 src Adam Kramer · Jamie Guillory · Jeff Hancock · Facebook · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-21 | Trump: Central Park Five Still Guilty Despite DNA Exoneration
3 src Donald Trump · Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-19 | Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank: Supreme Court Restricts Software Patents, Reducing Patent Troll Leverage Over Abstract Business Methods
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Alice Corp · CLS Bank International · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-04 | Germany Opens Criminal Investigation Into NSA Tapping of Merkel's Phone
4 src Angela Merkel · Harald Range · National Security Agency · Edward Snowden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-01 | FDA Statistician Joan Buenconsejo Joins AstraZeneca After Overseeing Company Drug Reviews
3 src Joan Buenconsejo · Food and Drug Administration · AstraZeneca · Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-01 | SCL Elections Contracts with Kogan to Launch Cambridge Analytica Data Operation
5 src SCL Group · SCL Elections · Aleksandr Kogan · Global Science Research · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-15 | FCC Approves Paid Prioritization "Fast Lanes" Proposal Despite Massive Public Backlash
3 src Tom Wheeler · Federal Communications Commission · Google · Microsoft · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-12 | Hunter Biden Joins Burisma Board While Father Leads Ukraine Policy
3 src Hunter Biden · Burisma Holdings · Joe Biden · Devon Archer | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-01 | Eric Trump says all funding comes from Russia, not U.S. banks
3 src Eric Trump · James Dodson · Trump Organization | reported | |
| 2014-04-25 | Flint Switches to Corrosive River Water to Save Money, Poisoning Entire City
4 src Darnell Earley · Flint Department of Public Works · Michigan Department of Environmental Quality | confirmed | |
| 2014-03-18 | Putin Formally Signs Treaty Annexing Crimea, Escalating International Conflict
3 src Vladimir Putin · Sergey Aksyonov · Joe Biden · Angela Merkel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2014-02-24 | Oracle Acquires BlueKai Data Broker for $400 Million, Expands Surveillance Operations
3 src Oracle · BlueKai · Larry Ellison | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-17 | Obama Announces Limited NSA Reforms While Preserving Core Surveillance Programs
4 src Barack Obama · National Security Agency · FISA Court · Edward Snowden | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-16 | NSA DISHFIRE Program Collects Nearly 200 Million Text Messages Daily Worldwide
3 src National Security Agency · GCHQ · Edward Snowden | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-14 | Verizon Lawsuit Successfully Overturns FCC Net Neutrality Rules, Court Demands Title II Reclassification
3 src Verizon Communications · DC Circuit Court of Appeals · Federal Communications Commission · Julius Genachowski | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Anonymous LLCs Enable $300B+ Annual Russian Money Flow into US Real Estate
4 src US Treasury · FinCEN · Russian Oligarchs · US real estate industry | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Candiru Spyware Company Founded by Israeli Veterans
3 src Eran Shorer · Yaakov Weizman · Isaac Zack · Omri Lavie · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | CNP Membership Includes DeVos and Mercer Families - Billionaire Donor Integration
2 src Council for National Policy · DeVos family · Mercer family · Richard DeVos · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Francisco Partners Acquires 70% Stake in NSO Group for $130 Million
3 src Francisco Partners · NSO Group · Shalev Hulio · Omri Lavie | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak tries to avoid security detail for Epstein island visits
4 src Ehud Barak · Jeffrey Epstein · Israeli security detail | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-01 | Reported: Epstein corresponded and met with FSB Academy graduate Sergei Belyakov (2014–2017)
5 src Jeffrey Epstein · Sergei Belyakov (FSB Academy graduate) · Russian Ministry of Economic Development · FSB Academy · +3 | reported | |
| 2014-01-01 | Tony Perkins Serves as CNP Vice President - Family Research Council Integration
2 src Tony Perkins · Family Research Council · Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-16 | Federal Judge Rules NSA Bulk Phone Data Collection Likely Unconstitutional
3 src Richard Leon · National Security Agency · Larry Klayman | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-05 | Tech Companies Launch Transparency Reports After NSA Revelations
4 src Google · Microsoft · Yahoo · Facebook · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-11-09 | Trump Holds Miss Universe in Moscow, Partners with Putin-Connected Agalarovs for Trump Tower Moscow
4 src Donald Trump · Aras Agalarov · Emin Agalarov · Vladimir Putin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-11-01 | Cantor Fitzgerald Signs Referral Agreement with Prince Andrew's Urramoor Limited Cantor Fitzgerald · Howard Lutnick · Prince Andrew · Jeffrey Epstein · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-21 | Microsoft and Google Challenge NSA Gag Orders in Federal Court
4 src Microsoft · Google · Brad Smith · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-02 | Yahoo's Secret FISA Court Battle Against PRISM Revealed
4 src Yahoo · National Security Agency · FISA Court · Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review | confirmed | |
| 2013-09-30 | Darnell Earley Appointed as Flint Emergency Manager, Will Oversee Disastrous Water Switch
3 src Darnell Earley · Rick Snyder | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-24 | New York Attorney General Sues Trump University for $40 Million, Calls It "Straight Up Fraud"
3 src Eric Schneiderman · Donald Trump · Michael Sexton | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-21 | Chelsea Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for WikiLeaks Disclosures
3 src Chelsea Manning · U.S. Army · Department of Justice · Obama Administration | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-08 | Lavabit Encrypted Email Service Shuts Down Rather Than Comply with NSA Demands
4 src Ladar Levison · Lavabit · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-01 | FAA Safety Official Ali Bahrami Leaves for Aerospace Industries Association During Boeing 737 MAX Development
3 src Ali Bahrami · Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing · Aerospace Industries Association · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-07-02 | Director of National Intelligence Clapper Apologizes for "Clearly Erroneous" Testimony to Congress
3 src James Clapper · Ron Wyden · Dianne Feinstein | confirmed | |
| 2013-07-01 | ALEC Coordinates 139 Education Privatization Bills Across States - Systematic Public School Defunding Campaign
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · ALEC Education and Workforce Development Task Force · Center for Media and Democracy · K12 Inc. · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2013-07-01 | North Carolina Passes "Monster" Voter Suppression Law Hours After Shelby County Decision
4 src North Carolina General Assembly · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-21 | Obama Prosecutes 8 Whistleblowers Under Espionage Act, More Than All Presidents
3 src Barack Obama · Eric Holder · Edward Snowden · Chelsea Manning · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-14 | U.S. Charges Edward Snowden with Espionage and Theft of Government Property
3 src Edward Snowden · Department of Justice · Eric Holder | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-09 | Edward Snowden Reveals Identity as NSA Whistleblower in Hong Kong Video
3 src Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Laura Poitras | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-05 | Roger Stone's Early Connections to Russian Information Networks
3 src Roger Stone · Guccifer 2.0 | reported | |
| 2013-06-05 | Snowden Reveals NSA Mass Surveillance and PRISM Program
3 src Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Laura Poitras · Bart Gellman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-01 | Elliptic Founded as First Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Firm
2 src Elliptic · Adam Joyce · Tom Robinson · James Smith | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-01 | Justice O'Connor Expresses Regret Over Bush v. Gore Damage to Court Reputation
4 src Sandra Day O'Connor · U.S. Supreme Court · Bush v. Gore majority | confirmed | |
| 2013-05-02 | Obama Nominates Telecom Industry Lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman
4 src Tom Wheeler · Barack Obama · Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) · National Cable Television Association (NCTA) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-15 | Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Drone Costs Surge to $222 Million Per Aircraft
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Government Accountability Office | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-11 | Federal Court Rules Texas 2011 Redistricting Intentionally Discriminated Against Latino Voters
4 src Texas Legislature · Republican Party · MALDEF | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-06 | Holder Testifies Some Banks Are Too Big to Jail
3 src Eric Holder · Department of Justice · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-03-01 | Trump Foundation Paid $25,000 to Settle Trump University Legal Claim Using Charity Funds
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-29 | DOJ Criminal Division Chief Lanny Breuer Resigns After PBS Frontline Documentary 'The Untouchables' Exposes 'Too Big to Jail' Policy Resulting in Zero Major Bank Executive Prosecutions Compared to 900+ Convictions in 1980s S&L Crisis
4 src Lanny Breuer · Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Covington & Burling · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-14 | Jeffrey Sterling Indicted Under Espionage Act for Alleged Leak to James Risen
3 src Jeffrey Sterling · James Risen · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | 70% of $80 billion intelligence budget goes to private contractors
4 src Intelligence Community · Private contractors · Edward Snowden · Booz Allen Hamilton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-11 | HSBC Pays $1.9B for Money Laundering, No Executives Jailed
3 src HSBC · Lanny Breuer · Department of Justice · Mexican Drug Cartels · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-10-23 | John Kiriakou Pleads Guilty - Only Person Jailed Over CIA Torture Program
3 src John Kiriakou · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2012-09-01 | New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations
4 src New England Compounding Center · Barry Cadden · Food and Drug Administration · Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-08-30 | Holder Closes Durham CIA Torture Investigations With No Charges — Completing the Obama-Era Ratchet Click on Torture Non-Prosecution
4 src Eric Holder · John Durham · Barack Obama · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-18 | Facebook IPO Market Manipulation by Morgan Stanley
3 src Morgan Stanley · Facebook · William Galvin · James Gorman | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-04 | Heartland Institute Billboard Compares Climate Scientists to Unabomber
4 src Heartland Institute · Ted Kaczynski · James Sensenbrenner · State Farm · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-04-06 | Magnitsky Act Passed by US Congress
3 src Sergei Magnitsky · Bill Browder · Benjamin Cardin · John McCain · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2012-03-01 | Trump Foundation Illegally Used $158,000 in Charity Funds to Settle Mar-a-Lago Legal Dispute
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Foundation · Town of Palm Beach | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-15 | PredPol Predictive Policing Company Founded
2 src George Mohler · Jeff Brantingham | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Leonard Leo Directs Hidden Payments to Ginni Thomas Through Kellyanne Conway, Instructs "No Mention of Ginni"
4 src Leonard Leo · Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Kellyanne Conway · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-01-01 | Stock Buybacks Reach $500 Billion Annually as S&P 500 Companies Return 91% of Earnings to Shareholders
3 src S&P 500 companies · Shareholders · Workers | confirmed | |
| 2011-12-12 | Erik Prince Sells Xe Services (formerly Blackwater), Rebranded as Academi with John Ashcroft on Board
3 src Erik Prince · Xe Services · Academi · John Ashcroft · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2011-10-31 | MF Global Bankruptcy: $1.6 Billion in Customer Funds Missing Under Jon Corzine
3 src Jon Corzine | confirmed | |
| 2011-09-01 | FBI Surveils Occupy Wall Street as "Terrorist Threat" Before First Protest
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Occupy Wall Street · Joint Terrorism Task Force | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Arizona Becomes First State to Enact ALEC-Inspired Education Savings Accounts - Pioneering Universal Voucher Path
4 src Jan Brewer · American Legislative Exchange Council · ALEC Education Task Force · Goldwater Institute · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin Begin Systematic NRA Infiltration Operation
4 src Maria Butina · Alexander Torshin · National Rifle Association · David Keene · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | North Carolina Republicans Begin Aggressive Racial Gerrymandering
4 src North Carolina General Assembly · Republican Party · Robert Rucho · David Lewis | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | Wells Fargo Employees Begin Creating 3.5 Million Fake Accounts
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt | confirmed | |
| 2010-12-15 | FDA Arthritis Drug Reviewer Jeffrey Siegel Joins Genentech After Approving Company Tocilizumab
4 src Jeffrey Siegel · Food and Drug Administration · Genentech · Roche · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-09-28 | Trump associate Tevfik Arif arrested on yacht with underage Eastern European girls
3 src Tevfik Arif · Alexander Mashkevich · Patokh Shodiev · Alijan Ibragimov · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-09-24 | FBI Raids Anti-War Activists' Homes in Coordinated Nationwide Operation
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · Anti-war activists · Grand jury | confirmed | |
| 2010-07-21 | Dodd-Frank Act Creates Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Regulate Predatory Lending
4 src Barack Obama · Elizabeth Warren · Richard Cordray · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | confirmed | |
| 2010-06-27 | Anna Chapman and Russian Spy Ring Arrested in Manhattan
4 src Anna Chapman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Russian Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2010-06-27 | DOJ charges 'Illegals Program' (including Anna Chapman); 10 plead guilty and are swapped
4 src Anna Chapman · US Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2010-06-18 | Vice President Biden Credits Palantir Software for Detecting Stimulus Fraud
3 src Joe Biden · Peter Orszag · Palantir Technologies · Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board | confirmed | |
| 2010-06-01 | Trump University Changes Name to "Trump Entrepreneur Initiative" Under Pressure from NY Education Department
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Sexton · Joseph Frey | confirmed | |
| 2010-05-27 | Chelsea Manning Arrested for Leaking Classified Documents to WikiLeaks
3 src Chelsea Manning · WikiLeaks · U.S. Army · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2010-05-15 | Wells Fargo Hires SEC Enforcement Chief: Investigation Needed
3 src Wells Fargo | reported | |
| 2010-04-16 | SEC Charges Goldman Sachs with Fraud Over ABACUS 2007-AC1 Synthetic CDO Deal Where Hedge Fund Manager John Paulson Selected Mortgage Securities to Bet Against While Goldman Sold Package to Investors, Resulting in $550 Million Settlement but No Criminal Charges
2 src Goldman Sachs · Fabrice Tourre · John Paulson · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2010-04-14 | Robo-Signing Scandal Exposed Systematic Foreclosure Document Fraud
3 src Bank of America · JPMorgan Chase · Wells Fargo · Citigroup · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-04-08 | Thomas Drake Indicted Under Espionage Act for NSA Whistleblowing
3 src Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2010-04-05 | Purdue Reformulates OxyContin as "Abuse-Deterrent" After 14 Years, Drives Users to Heroin
3 src Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · Sackler Family | confirmed | |
| 2010-03-26 | SpeechNow.org v. FEC Appeals Court Decision Creates Super PACs with Unlimited Contribution Authority
3 src David Keating · Federal Election Commission · U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit | confirmed | |
| 2010-03-17 | Obama Authorizes CIA Signature Strikes - Killing Based on Behavior Patterns, Not Identity
4 src Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency · Leon Panetta | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-27 | Oracle Completes Sun Microsystems Acquisition for $7.4 Billion, Gains Java and MySQL
3 src Oracle · Sun Microsystems · Larry Ellison · European Commission | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-15 | Northrop B-2 Bomber Operating Costs Reach $150,000 Per Flight Hour
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | Hospital Consolidation Wave (2010-2020): 1,164 Mergers with Only 1% FTC Enforcement Rate
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Hospital corporations | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | NSO Group Founded in Israel to Develop Pegasus Spyware
3 src Shalev Hulio · Omri Lavie · Niv Karmi · NSO Group | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | NYPD Counterterrorism Unit Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance Operations
2 src New York Police Department · Palantir Technologies · Richard Falkenrath · New York City Police Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2009-12-21 | Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding Joins Merck as Vaccine Division President
3 src Dr. Julie Gerberding · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Merck · Gardasil vaccine | confirmed | |
| 2009-11-17 | Climategate Email Hack Manufactures Controversy Before Copenhagen Summit
4 src Climate Research Unit · University of East Anglia · Phil Jones · Michael Mann · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2009-10-06 | Senate Passes Franken Amendment Banning Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Assault Claims by Defense Contractors, 30 Republicans Vote to Protect Corporate Impunity
3 src Al Franken · Jamie Leigh Jones · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-09-12 | 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington Demonstrates Koch Network Mobilization Power
3 src FreedomWorks · Americans for Prosperity · Dick Armey · Brendan Steinhauser · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2009-06-01 | Obama Cuts $80B PhRMA Deal Abandoning Medicare Negotiation Promise
3 src Barack Obama · PhRMA · Billy Tauzin · Jim Messina · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-05-01 | Russian Digital Sky Technologies Invests $200M in Facebook
3 src Alisher Usmanov · Yuri Milner · Mark Zuckerberg · Digital Sky Technologies | confirmed | |
| 2009-04-16 | Obama Releases CIA Torture Memos But Promises No Prosecutions for Torturers
4 src Barack Obama · Eric Holder · Central Intelligence Agency · John Yoo · +3 | confirmed |