Capture lane

Surveillance Infrastructure

The Surveillance Infrastructure capture lane traces 387 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

387 events From Sep 1, 1945 To Mar 20, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-08-02Office of Special Counsel Opens Investigation into Jack Smith Following Senator Cotton Request
Jack Smith · Tom Cotton · Office of Special Counsel · Trump
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2025-08-01Columbia University Agrees to Monitor Foreign Students for Trump Administration in $221 Million Settlement
Columbia University · U.S. Department of Education · White House · Bart Schwartz · +1
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2025-08-01Ghislaine Maxwell Transferred to Minimum-Security Texas Prison Camp After Meeting with DOJ Officials
Ghislaine Maxwell · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · +1
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2025-08-01Sean Combs Associates Offer Mid-Six-Figure Payments to Trump Officials for Presidential Pardon
Sean Combs · Donald Trump · Nicole Westmoreland · White House
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2025-08-01Trump Orders States to Hand Over Medicaid, Food Assistance, and Voter Roll Data for Federal Surveillance
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · USDA · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Government Efficiency · +1
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2025-08-01U.S. Army Awards Palantir $10 Billion AI-Driven Software Contract
U.S. Army · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense · Donald Trump
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2025-07-02CDC Deactivates H5N1 Emergency Response Despite Ongoing Outbreak
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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2025-07-02Joe Rogan Publicly Criticizes Trump's "Insane" ICE Raids, Says Feels "Betrayed" - Eight Months After Trump Endorsement
Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Bernie Sanders · Bono
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2025-06-26Anthropic Claude in Amazon Bedrock Cleared for FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 in AWS GovCloud
Anthropic · Amazon Web Services · U.S. Federal Government · Department of Defense · +1
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2025-06-17Wyden, Goldman, Velázquez Letter to Palantir CEO Karp Demands Answers on ICE Surveillance Tools
Ron Wyden · Daniel Goldman · Nydia Velázquez · Alex Karp · +3
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2025-06-05Anduril Reaches $30+ Billion Valuation, Becoming Most Valuable Private Defense Startup in History
Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel
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2025-05-01100,000+ emails from Israeli Defense Minister Barak hacked, revealing Epstein partnership and global surveillance technology network
Handala hacking group · Ehud Barak · Distributed Denial of Secrets · Jeffrey Epstein · +1
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2025-05-01DOJ Sues Aetna, Humana, Elevance for Paying Illegal Medicare Advantage Kickbacks and Discriminating Against Disabled Beneficiaries
Department of Justice · Aetna · CVS Health · Humana · +5
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2025-05-01Texas Sheriff Uses Flock Safety's 83,000 Camera Network to Track Woman Who Had Abortion
Johnson County Sheriff Adam King · Flock Safety · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi · +1
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2025-04-25DOGE Building Master Immigration Enforcement Database with Palantir, Integrating IRS and Federal Agency Data
DOGE · Elon Musk · Palantir · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1
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2025-04-03In-Q-Tel Reaches 800th Investment Milestone, Expanding Into AI and Quantum Computing
In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Christopher Darby
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2025-03-27White House Establishes "The Arrests Will Continue. The Memes Will Continue" as Official Communications Doctrine
Kaelan Dorr · Abigail Jackson · White House · Donald Trump
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2025-03-26Trump Nominates Anduril Senior Director Michael Obadal as Army Under Secretary; Plans to Retain $250K-$500K Anduril Stock
Donald Trump · Michael Obadal · Anduril Industries · Elizabeth Warren · +3
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2025-03-25Trump Signs EO 'Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections' — Proof of Citizenship, Mail Ballot Restrictions
Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · +4
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2025-02-25Axon Reports $2.1 Billion Revenue for 2024, Achieving Third Consecutive Year of 30%+ Growth Through Subscription Lock-In Model
Axon · Rick Smith
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2025-02-20Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That Resigns Amid Facial Recognition Controversies
Hoan Ton-That · Clearview AI · Hal Lambert · Richard Schwartz · +1
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2025-01-28OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Gov, Defining Federal AI Product Surface Eight Days into Trump-2
OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Federal Government · Microsoft Azure Government
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2025-01-07Donald Trump Jr. Makes Unofficial Visit to Greenland, Distributes MAGA Hats
Donald Trump Jr. · Donald Trump · Greenland Government
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2024-12-06USDA Issues Federal Order Requiring Mandatory Raw Milk Testing for H5N1
USDA · APHIS · Food and Drug Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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2024-10-21Institute for Justice Files Lawsuit Challenging Flock Safety Mass Surveillance as Unconstitutional
Institute for Justice · Lee Schmidt · Crystal Arrington · Norfolk Police Department · +1
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2024-10-20Eight Washington State Poultry Workers Infected with H5N1 During Depopulation Operations
Washington State Department of Health · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Benton-Franklin Health District · USDA
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2024-09-20FTC Sues Big Three PBMs for Artificially Inflating Insulin Prices Through Rebate Schemes
Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +4
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2024-09-19General Dynamics Virginia-Class Submarine Program Revealed to Be $17 Billion Over Budget with 2-3 Year Delays
General Dynamics · Huntington Ingalls Industries · Ken Calvert · Carlos Del Toro · +1
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2024-09-13State Department Exposes RT as Fully Integrated Russian Intelligence Operation with Embedded Cyber Capabilities
State Department · Antony Blinken · RT (Russia Today) · U.S. Treasury Department · +1
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2024-09-04Justice Department Seizes 32 Russian Disinformation Domains Mimicking U.S. News Sites, Exposes Kremlin Operation Directed by Putin Aide
Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · Sergei Kiriyenko · Vladimir Putin · +3
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2024-09-01Anduril Deploys 300th Autonomous Surveillance Tower at U.S.-Mexico Border
Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey
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2024-09-01Pennsylvania SCIPNet deploys Carbyne APEX across four counties, becoming first state NG911 system with $3.5 million contract
South Central Inter-County Phone Network Pennsylvania · Carbyne · Adams County Pennsylvania · Cumberland County Pennsylvania · +2
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2024-08-09Oracle Agrees to $115 Million Settlement Over Mass Surveillance Data Brokerage
Oracle · Judge Richard Seeborg · Irish Council for Civil Liberties
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2024-08-01Larry Ellison Buys $277 Million Florida Resort Near Mar-a-Lago, $450M Total Investment
Larry Ellison · Oracle · Donald Trump · Manalapan
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2024-07-23House Oversight Releases Damning PBM Report After 32-Month Investigation: Anticompetitive Policies Exposed
U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Adam Kautzner · David Joyner · +4
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2024-07-18DaVita Pays $34 Million to Settle Third Kickback Case in Decade, Revealing Systematic Fraud Business Model
DaVita · Dennis Kogod · Department of Justice · DaVita Rx
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2024-07-09FTC Report Reveals PBM Oligopoly: Top 3 Control 80% of Market, Extract $7.3 Billion Through Markups
Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +2
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2024-06-01Flock Safety Network Expands to 5,000+ Police Departments Performing 20 Billion Monthly Vehicle Scans
Flock Safety · Garrett Langley · American Civil Liberties Union · Electronic Frontier Foundation
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2024-04-23Axon Releases Draft One AI System to Automate Police Report Writing from Body Camera Audio
Axon · OpenAI · Microsoft · Electronic Frontier Foundation
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2024-02-15Chicago Terminates ShotSpotter Contract After Years of Criticism
Brandon Johnson · ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department
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2024-01-26Jury Awards E. Jean Carroll $83.3 Million in Second Defamation Trial Against Trump
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan · Roberta Kaplan
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2024-01-24Ring ends 'Request for Assistance' feature allowing police to request user footage
Ring · Amazon
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2023-11-06Trump Takes Stand in NY Fraud Trial, Delivers Combative Testimony Calling Case "Witch Hunt"
Donald Trump · Arthur Engoron · Letitia James · Trump Organization · +1
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2023-10-09Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring
Dataminr · LAPD · Talia Jane
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2023-10-05Metro Emergency Communications deploys Carbyne AI-powered 911 system in Provo, Orem, and Lindon, Utah
Metro Emergency Communications Utah · Carbyne · Provo Utah · Orem Utah · +1
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2023-07-01US Adds Intellexa and Cytrox to Entity List for Cyber Exploit Trafficking
US Commerce Department · Bureau of Industry and Security · Intellexa S.A. · Cytrox Holdings Crt · +5
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2023-06-15AT&T partners with Carbyne as authorized reseller, integrating Israeli surveillance tech into national telecom infrastructure
AT&T · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · AT&T Ventures
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2023-06-14Commerce Department Designates Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group as National Security Threat for PLA Support—Five Years After Carbyne Co-Founder Worked There
Bureau of Industry and Security · Frontier Services Group · Erik Prince · CITIC Group · +4
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2023-05-09Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation of E. Jean Carroll, Awards $5 Million
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan
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2023-04-22Palantir Partners with Ukraine Prosecutor to Process War Crimes Evidence Using AI
Palantir Technologies · Ukraine Prosecutor General's Office · Andriy Kostin
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2023-01-13Anonymous Whistleblower Leaks 1.7 TB of Cellebrite Data Including Full Software Suite
Cellebrite · Anonymous · Enlace Hacktivista
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2023-01-01CNP Members Lead Project 2025 Coalition Organizations - Coordination Infrastructure for Trump Return
Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · Edwin Meese III · William L. Walton · +2
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2023-01-01SpaceX Wins $1.8 Billion Classified NRO Contract for Hundreds of Spy Satellites
SpaceX · Elon Musk · National Reconnaissance Office · Pentagon
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2022-12-15Trump Launches Massive NFT Collection Generating .4 Million in Initial Sales
Donald Trump
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2022-11-25FCC bans Huawei and ZTE as national security threats while Carbyne operates unchecked
Federal Communications Commission · Huawei · ZTE Corporation · Jessica Rosenworcel · +3
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2022-11-22Trump Hosts White Nationalist Nick Fuentes and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago Dinner
Donald Trump · Nick Fuentes · Kanye West
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2022-11-10New York Adult Survivors Act Creates Window for Carroll to Sue Trump for Battery
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Kathy Hochul · Brad Hoylman · +1
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2022-10-19France Fines Clearview AI €20 Million for GDPR Violations and Unlawful Biometric Surveillance
CNIL · Clearview AI · European Data Protection Board · France
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2022-08-19Oracle Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over "Surveillance Machine" Tracking 5 Billion People
Oracle · Irish Council for Civil Liberties · Johnny Ryan · Mike Katz-Lacabe · +1
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2022-07-13Ring admits providing police with warrantless access to user footage 11 times in 2022
Ring · Amazon · Brian Huseman · Ed Markey
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2022-06-14FTC Blocks JAB Consumer Partners Veterinary Clinic Roll-Up: Private Equity Monopolization Strategy
Federal Trade Commission · JAB Consumer Partners · JAB Holding Company · National Veterinary Associates · +2
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2022-05-25NRO Awards Largest-Ever Commercial Imagery Contracts: $1B to BlackSky, $3.2B to Maxar, Plus Planet
National Reconnaissance Office · BlackSky Technology · Maxar Technologies · Planet Labs · +1
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2022-05-24UK Fines Clearview AI £7.5 Million for Breaching Data Protection Laws
Information Commissioner's Office · Clearview AI · United Kingdom
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2022-03-01Clearview AI Deploys Mass Facial Recognition Technology in Ukraine War
Clearview AI · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Hoan Ton-That
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2022-02-15Pentagon Authorizes Oracle Cloud for Top Secret and Special Access Program Missions
Oracle · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Air Force · Defense Information Systems Agency
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2022-02-14Rio Grande Council of Governments, Texas launches first i3-compliant cloud-native 911 system with Carbyne
Rio Grande Council of Governments · Carbyne · City of Alpine Texas · Brewster County Texas · +3
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2022-02-01Flock Safety Reaches $3.5 Billion Valuation with 1,000+ Police Departments Using Surveillance Network
Flock Safety · Tiger Global · Andreessen Horowitz · Garrett Langley
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2022-01-21Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 80 at Yemen Detention Center in Worst Attack in Three Years
Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Amnesty International · +3
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2022-01-18NY Attorney General James Files Motion Revealing Evidence of Trump Organization Fraud
Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +3
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2022-01-13Judge Dismisses All Flint Criminal Charges on Technicality—Zero Accountability After Poisoning Thousands
Elizabeth Kelly · F. Kay Behm · Rick Snyder · Michigan Supreme Court
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2022-01-13Navient Settles for $1.85 Billion Over Student Loan Servicing Fraud - Steered Borrowers Into Costly Forbearances
Navient · Letitia James
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2021-12-16Melania Trump Launches NFT Platform with "Melania's Vision" Collection
Melania Trump
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2021-12-13USA Gymnastics Emerges from Bankruptcy with $380 Million Settlement for 500+ Nassar Survivors
USA Gymnastics · Robyn Moberly · U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee · Simone Biles · +5
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2021-11-23Apple Sues NSO Group Over FORCEDENTRY Exploit and Pegasus Spyware Targeting
Apple · NSO Group · Citizen Lab · US District Court Northern California
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2021-08-15ShotSpotter Accuracy Crisis - Chicago Inspector General Report and Williams Case
ShotSpotter · Michael Williams · Chicago Police Department
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2021-07-27Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months for Exposing Drone War Crimes
Daniel Hale · National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · +1
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2021-07-18Pegasus Project Exposes Global Surveillance of 50,000 Targets by NSO Group Clients
Forbidden Stories · Amnesty International · Citizen Lab · The Guardian · +3
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2021-07-01Twitter Permanently Suspends Nick Fuentes, Completing Major Platform Deplatforming
Nick Fuentes
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2021-04-06Stephen Miller Founds America First Legal to Challenge Biden Administration and Advance White Nationalist Agenda
Stephen Miller · Mark Meadows · Matthew Whitaker
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2021-03-18Cellebrite Halts Sales to Russia and Belarus After Human Rights Abuse Revelations
Cellebrite · Eitay Mack
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2021-02-15Republican State Parties Censure Senators Who Voted to Convict Trump
Bill Cassidy · Richard Burr · Ben Sasse · Pat Toomey · +3
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2021-02-13Senate Acquits Trump 57-43 Despite Bipartisan Majority Finding Him Guilty
Donald Trump · Mitt Romney · Richard Burr · Bill Cassidy · +4
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2021-02-13Senate Votes 55-45 to Call Witnesses, Then Reverses After McConnell Threatens Delay
Jaime Herrera Beutler · Kevin McCarthy · Donald Trump · Jamie Raskin · +2
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2021-02-10Impeachment Managers Present Devastating 13-Minute Video Compilation of January 6 Attack
Jamie Raskin · Stacey Plaskett · Eric Swalwell · Eugene Goodman · +2
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2021-02-05Robinhood DTCC Collateral Waiver Revealed in GameStop Short Squeeze Fallout
Robinhood Financial · DTCC · Dan Gallagher · U.S. House Committee on Financial Services
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2021-02-04Biden Administration Pauses $760 Million Raytheon and Boeing Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Over Yemen
Joe Biden · Jake Sullivan · Raytheon · Boeing · +2
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2021-02-03Canadian Privacy Commissioners Declare Clearview AI Represents "Mass Surveillance" of Citizens
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada · Clearview AI · RCMP
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2021-01-25Pelosi Transmits Impeachment Article to Senate After Biden Inauguration
Nancy Pelosi · Jamie Raskin · Chuck Schumer · Mitch McConnell · +1
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2021-01-15PredPol Rebrands as Geolitica Amid Mounting Criticism of Racial Bias
PredPol · Geolitica
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2021-01-14Rick Snyder Charged With Misdemeanors for Poisoning Thousands—First Governor Ever Criminally Charged
Rick Snyder · Dana Nessel · Fadwa Hammoud
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2021-01-13House Impeaches Trump for Second Time on Single Charge of "Incitement of Insurrection"
Donald Trump · Nancy Pelosi · Liz Cheney · Adam Kinzinger · +1
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2021-01-06Nick Fuentes Rallies Supporters Outside Capitol During January 6 Insurrection
Nick Fuentes · Donald Trump
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2021-01-06Stephen Miller Writes Trump's January 6 Ellipse Speech, Adds Language About Pence Overturning Election
Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · Mike Pence
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2021-01-02CNP Attorney Cleta Mitchell Joins Trump Call Pressuring Georgia Officials
Cleta Mitchell · Donald Trump · Brad Raffensperger · Council for National Policy
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2020-12-22Trump Pardons Four Blackwater Contractors for Nisour Square Massacre
Donald Trump · Erik Prince · Betsy DeVos · Nicholas Slatten · +3
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2020-12-01Trump Pardon Corruption - Systematic Monetization of Presidential Clemency Power
Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Jared Kushner · William Barr
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2020-11-25Trump Pardons Michael Flynn After Guilty Plea and Sidney Powell Conspiracy Theories
Donald Trump · Michael Flynn · Sidney Powell · Emmet Sullivan · +1
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2020-11-20CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM
Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft · +2
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2020-11-12CNP Holds Post-Election Strategy Meeting - Planning Electoral College Challenge
Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · J. Christian Adams · Hans von Spakovsky · +2
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2020-11-03Judge Sullivan Orders Emergency USPS Ballot Sweeps, DeJoy Initially Defies Court Order
Emmet Sullivan · Louis DeJoy · USPS · Federal Courts
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