Intelligence Penetration
The Intelligence Penetration capture lane traces 915 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1850–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-02-17 | Trump Entertainment Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Resigns from Board
3 src Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2009-02-13 | Blackwater Rebrands as Xe Services to Distance from Nisour Square Massacre and Iraq War Crimes
3 src Erik Prince · Blackwater | confirmed | |
| 2009-01-20 | Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud
3 src Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Lanny Breuer · Covington & Burling | confirmed | |
| 2009-01-01 | LAPD's Joint Regional Intelligence Center Begins Using Palantir for Surveillance
2 src Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2008-12-11 | Bernie Madoff Arrested for $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme After SEC Ignored Warnings for 16 Years
5 src Bernie Madoff · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-03 | Bush Signs 00B Bank Bailout with Minimal Oversight
3 src George W. Bush · Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions
3 src Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-03 | Emergency Economic Stabilization Act Creates $700 Billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to Bail Out Wall Street Banks with Minimal Oversight or Executive Accountability Requirements, Leading to Just One Criminal Prosecution Compared to 900+ in 1980s Savings & Loan Crisis
4 src Henry Paulson · George W. Bush · Ben Bernanke · Nancy Pelosi · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-29 | Financial Services Committee Members Who Supported Bailout Received 39% More Wall Street Money
3 src House Financial Services Committee · Wall Street | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-16 | Federal Reserve Provides $85 Billion Emergency Loan to AIG, Eventually Growing to $182 Billion in Total Taxpayer Commitments to Bail Out Insurance Giant That Gambled on Credit Default Swaps, Followed by $165 Million in Executive Bonuses Paid to Employees Who Caused the Crisis
3 src Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Timothy Geithner · Henry Paulson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-15 | Trump Jr. says Russians make up disproportionate cross-section of assets
3 src Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Organization | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-04 | Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes · U.S. District Court · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2008-08-29 | Bush Privatizes 70% of Intelligence Budget to Contractors
3 src Bush Administration · Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-31 | FISA Court Finds NSA Surveillance Programs Systematically Unconstitutional
3 src FISA Court · National Security Agency · Department of Justice · Michael Hayden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-16 | Trump sells Palm Beach 'Maison de L'Amitié' to Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95M
5 src Dmitry Rybolovlev · Donald Trump · Trump Organization | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-09 | FISA Amendments Act of 2008 Passes, Granting Telecom Immunity
3 src U.S. Congress · George W. Bush · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-01 | Bank of America Completes $4 Billion Acquisition of Countrywide Financial After Predatory Lending and Fraud Schemes Targeting Minorities Caused $50 Billion in Losses, with CEO Angelo Mozilo Paying Only $67.5 Million SEC Settlement and Facing Zero Criminal Charges
4 src Countrywide Financial · Bank of America · Securities and Exchange Commission · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-06-28 | Model Ruslana Korshunova dies in suspicious fall two years after Epstein island visit
4 src Jeffrey Epstein · Virginia Giuffre | confirmed | |
| 2008-03-20 | Sprint Nextel GPS Location Data Sharing with Law Enforcement
4 src National Security Agency · Bush Administration | confirmed | |
| 2008-01-02 | KBR's Faulty Electrical Work Kills Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, Part of Systematic Negligence Causing 18 Electrocution Deaths in Iraq with No Criminal Charges Despite Army Negligent Homicide Finding
3 src Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2008-01-01 | Palantir Gotham Platform Released for Intelligence and Defense Applications
3 src Palantir Technologies · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community | confirmed | |
| 2008-01-01 | Report: Acosta told Trump transition Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' (unconfirmed)
4 src Alexander Acosta · Jeffrey Epstein · US Intelligence · Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2007-11-15 | Thomas Drake Reports NSA Trailblazer Program Waste and Constitutional Violations
3 src Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · SAIC · Michael Hayden | confirmed | |
| 2007-11-02 | CIA Detainee Gul Rahman Froze to Death at Black Site - No One Prosecuted for Homicide
4 src Gul Rahman · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2007-10-19 | Associated Press Investigation Exposes Comcast's Secret BitTorrent Throttling and Blocking
3 src Comcast Corporation · Associated Press · Electronic Frontier Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2007-09-16 | Blackwater Nisour Square Massacre Exposes Systematic Private Military Corporate-State Fusion Accountability Crisis and Constitutional Violation
6 src Erik Prince · State Department · Central Intelligence Agency · Iraqi Government · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2007-08-27 | Questcor Raises Acthar Gel Price from $1,600 to $23,000 Overnight - Eventually Reaching 97,000% Increase Through Bribery Scheme
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Humana · U.S. Congress · Big Pharma | confirmed | |
| 2007-08-01 | Verizon's Deep Involvement in NSA Surveillance Programs
3 src Bush Administration · National Security Agency · Verizon Communications | confirmed | |
| 2007-04-05 | Halliburton Completes Spin-Off of KBR to Distance from Iraq War Scandals, Fraud Investigations, and $2.7 Billion in Questioned Costs
2 src Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Dick Cheney · Senate Armed Services Committee | confirmed | |
| 2007-04-01 | FISA Court Judge Rejects NSA Warrantless Surveillance Expansion
3 src FISA Court · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2007-03-09 | DOJ Inspector General Documents Systematic FBI Surveillance Abuse
3 src Glenn Fine · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-03-06 | Scooter Libby Convicted on Four Counts in CIA Leak Case
3 src Lewis 'Scooter' Libby · Patrick Fitzgerald · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2007-01-01 | Israel Passes Defense Export Control Law, Creating Framework That Enables Pegasus as Diplomatic Weapon
3 src Benjamin Netanyahu · NSO Group | confirmed | |
| 2007-01-01 | Palantir Begins Rapid Expansion Across U.S. Government Agencies
2 src Palantir Technologies · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-07 | Bush Administration Fires 9 U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons
3 src Alberto Gonzales · Karl Rove · George W. Bush · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-24 | ABA Condemns Bush 800+ Signing Statements Nullifying Oversight
3 src George W. Bush · American Bar Association · Dick Cheney · David Addington · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-18 | Competitive Enterprise Institute Launches "CO2 is Life" Advertising Campaign
4 src Competitive Enterprise Institute · ExxonMobil | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-15 | eBay v. MercExchange: Supreme Court Limits Automatic Patent Injunctions, Enabling Patent Troll Business Model to Flourish
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Anthony Kennedy | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-08 | Michael Hayden Nominated as CIA Director Despite NSA Surveillance Controversy
3 src Michael Hayden · George W. Bush · Senate Intelligence Committee · National Security Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-03-09 | Dubai Ports World Abandons US Port Takeover Under Congressional Pressure
4 src Dubai Ports World · Dennis Hastert · George W. Bush · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2006-02-22 | Bush Threatens First Presidential Veto Over Dubai Ports Deal
3 src George W. Bush · Dubai Ports World · UAE · Republican Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | Ares Management Acquires Aspen Dental: Private Equity Dental Roll-Up Strategy Launches Industry Consolidation 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | Palantir Wins First Major Contract with Joint IED Defeat Organization for Iraq and Afghanistan
2 src Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-16 | New York Times Exposes NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program
5 src James Risen · New York Times · George W. Bush · National Security Agency | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-15 | Coast Guard Identifies Critical Intelligence Gaps in Dubai Ports World Deal
3 src U.S. Coast Guard · Dubai Ports World · UAE · Susan Collins | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-15 | NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice Reports Illegal Domestic Surveillance
3 src National Security Agency · Senate Intelligence Committee · James Risen · New York Times · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-08 | Dick Cheney Lobbies Congress for CIA Exemption from McCain Torture Ban
4 src Dick Cheney · John McCain · Porter Goss · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-07 | Harry Markopolos Submits 'The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud' to SEC, Agency Ignores Detailed Evidence for Third Time
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff | confirmed | |
| 2005-10-28 | Karl Rove Orchestrates Political Prosecution of Don Siegelman
3 src Karl Rove | confirmed | |
| 2005-10-15 | Dubai Ports World Initiates Controversial CFIUS Review for US Port Management Acquisition
3 src Dubai Ports World · U.S. Coast Guard · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · George W. Bush | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-03 | FBI Finds $90,000 in Cash Hidden in Rep. William Jefferson's Freezer 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-28 | KBR Employee Jamie Leigh Jones Alleges Gang Rape in Iraq, Exposes Systematic Use of Mandatory Arbitration to Shield Contractor Accountability
3 src Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · State Department · Al Franken | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-01 | Bain, KKR, and Vornado Acquire Toys 'R' Us for $6.6 Billion, Loading Company with $5 Billion Debt
3 src Bain Capital · KKR | confirmed | |
| 2005-05-10 | Bradbury OLC Memos Reconstruct CIA Interrogation Authorization Post-Goldsmith Withdrawal — Three May 2005 Memos Re-authorize Waterboarding
6 src Alberto Gonzales · David Addington · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-20 | Bankruptcy Act Makes Private Student Loans Non-Dischargeable - Weaponizing Law Against Students
3 src George W. Bush | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-20 | Two Decades of Bankruptcy Weaponization: Students Crushed While Corporations Shield Billions (2005-2024)
3 src Corinthian Colleges · University of Phoenix · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-15 | John Negroponte Becomes First Director of National Intelligence
3 src George W. Bush · Senate Intelligence Committee · Intelligence Community | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-07 | Armstrong Williams Paid 40K for Illegal Government Propaganda
3 src U.S. Department of Education | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-01 | CIA's In-Q-Tel Makes Strategic Investment in Palantir Technologies
2 src In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Palantir Technologies | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-01 | Private Equity Assets Under Management Reach $1 Trillion, Enabling Systematic Extraction Across Economy
3 src Blackstone · KKR · Bain Capital | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-30 | Trump Outbids Epstein for Palm Beach Mansion, Ending Friendship
3 src Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Dmitry Rybolovlev | confirmed | |
| 2004-08-10 | Porter Goss Begins Systematic Purge of CIA Analysts
3 src Porter Goss | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-22 | Koch Network Restructures: CSE Splits into FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity
3 src David Koch · Charles Koch · Dick Armey · FreedomWorks · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-01 | Kroll Associates sold to Marsh & McLennan for $1.9 billion
3 src Kroll Associates · Jules Kroll | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-28 | WHIG-Enabled Torture Authorization Establishes Executive Immunity Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Governance
3 src John Yoo · Jay Bybee · Alberto Gonzales · White House Iraq Group · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-24 | Supreme Court Protects Cheney Energy Task Force Secrecy
3 src Dick Cheney · U.S. Supreme Court · Anthony Kennedy · Antonin Scalia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-04 | Stewart v. Blackwell Applies Bush v. Gore Equal Protection Precedent to Ohio Voting Disparities 4 src | confirmed | |
| 2004-05-10 | Canada Concludes Maher Arar Wrongly Rendered to Syria for Torture Based on False Intelligence
4 src Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Creates Consolidated Supervised Entities Program Allowing Unlimited Investment Bank Leverage
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Bear Stearns · Lehman Brothers · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Implements Alternative Net Capital Rules for Major Investment Banks
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · Morgan Stanley · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2004-03-10 | Hospital Confrontation Over NSA Surveillance Program
6 src John Ashcroft · James Comey · Alberto Gonzales · Robert Mueller | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-05 | Scott Bloch Dismisses 1,000+ Whistleblower Cases at OSC
3 src Office of Special Counsel · U.S. Congress · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2003-11-25 | Bush Administration Hides 39B Medicare Part D Cost from Congress
3 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-19 | Paul Bremer Order 39 Privatizes Iraq Economy for Foreign Corporations
3 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · Iraqi Government | confirmed | |
| 2003-07-14 | Robert Novak Exposes CIA Operative Valerie Plame
3 src Valerie Plame · Joseph Wilson · Richard Armitage · Karl Rove · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-07-14 | Valerie Plame's CIA Identity Leaked in Retaliation for Wilson's Iraq WMD Criticism
6 src Valerie Plame · Joseph Wilson · Dick Cheney · Scooter Libby · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-07-07 | WHIG Coordinates Campaign to Discredit Joseph Wilson, Leading to Plame Leak
3 src White House Iraq Group · Karl Rove · Scooter Libby · Colin Powell · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-15 | NSA Awards AT&T $500 Million Multi-Year Surveillance Infrastructure Contract
3 src George W. Bush · Michael Hayden | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-06 | Coalition Provisional Authority Loses .8B in Iraqi Oil Revenue
3 src Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · Halliburton · Iraqi Government | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-01 | Powell-WHIG Template Establishes Crisis-Accelerated Institutional Capture Blueprint for Ongoing Democratic Transformation
3 src George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · Heritage Foundation · Federalist Society | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-14 | Yoo OLC Memo Exempts 'Wartime' Domestic Surveillance from Fourth Amendment — Stealth Authorization of NSA Warrantless Wiretap Program
5 src John C. Yoo · Jay Bybee · Michael Hayden · George Tenet · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-08 | Halliburton Gets 9.5B Iraq Contracts with Cheney Ties
4 src Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-08 | Halliburton KBR Receives $7 Billion No-Bid Iraq Contract Through Systematic Corporate-State Fusion Infrastructure Coordination
3 src Dick Cheney · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Douglas Feith · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-01 | Vanity Fair editor removes Epstein victim allegations after intimidation meeting
3 src Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2003-02-28 | NSA Officer Kwiatkowski Documents OSP-WHIG Intelligence Corruption as Whistleblower
3 src Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · Michael Maloof · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2003-02-05 | Colin Powell Presents False WMD Evidence to UN Security Council
3 src Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-21 | OGC Formalizes Systematic Network Coordination Infrastructure Through Executive Order
3 src George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · Television Network Executives | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-15 | WHIG Establishes Systematic Opposition Research and Critic Monitoring Apparatus
3 src Karl Rove · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · Condoleezza Rice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-12-18 | OSP Fabricates Iraq-al Qaeda Intelligence for WHIG Propaganda Campaign
3 src Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · Michael Maloof · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-25 | WHIG Establishes Executive Deception Infrastructure as Constitutional Precedent for Crisis Governance
3 src White House Iraq Group · Andrew Card · Karl Rove · Dick Cheney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-20 | OSP Systematically Bypasses CIA Vetting to Feed Fabricated Intelligence to WHIG
3 src Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · Karl Rove · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-15 | Federalist Society Provides WHIG with Crisis-Accelerated Legal Justification Infrastructure for Powell Memorandum Implementation
3 src Federalist Society · John Yoo · Jay Bybee · Steven Calabresi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-05 | OSP Fabricates Iraq-Al Qaeda Connection Intelligence for WHIG Distribution
3 src Douglas Feith · Paul Wolfowitz · Donald Rumsfeld · Dick Cheney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-28 | Trump Calls Epstein "Terrific Guy" Who Likes Women "On the Younger Side"
3 src Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-25 | WHIG Coordinates Post-Vote Intelligence Suppression Campaign
3 src White House Iraq Group · Dick Cheney · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-16 | WHIG Achieves Systematic Bypass of Constitutional Separation of Powers Through Congressional Deception
3 src George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · U.S. Congress · Constitutional Framework · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-15 | OSP-WHIG Coordination Establishes Systematic Intelligence Manipulation Pipeline
3 src Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · Karl Rove · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-12 | OSP and WHIG Establish Daily Intelligence-Propaganda Coordination Meetings
3 src Douglas Feith · Paul Wolfowitz · Andrew Card · Dick Cheney · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-11 | Iraq War Authorization Vote Succeeds Through WHIG's Systematic Congressional Deception
3 src White House Iraq Group · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · Hillary Clinton · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-10 | Congressional Iraq Authorization Vote Based on WHIG Fabrications
4 src White House Iraq Group · Dick Cheney · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · +3 | confirmed |