President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum on October 9, 2025, authorizing the construction of up to four Arctic Security Cutters (ASCs) abroad to address ‘urgent national security needs’ in the Arctic region. The memorandum invokes presidential authority under 14 U.S.C. 1151(b) …
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On October 1, 2025, the Department of Justice fired Michael Ben’Ary, the chief of the national security section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, after pro-Trump activist and writer Julie Kelly posted on social media falsely linking him to internal …
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard killed the forthcoming Global Trends 2025 report and dismantled the intelligence unit that produced it, ending a practice dating to 1997 of publishing quadrennial unclassified assessments of future threats to U.S. national security. Gabbard’s …
The New York Times revealed that after UAE entity MGX (controlled by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed) invested $2 billion in World Liberty Financial—a cryptocurrency venture co-founded by Trump and special envoy Steve Witkoff—the White House approved the UAE’s acquisition of hundreds of thousands of …
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Chief Data Officer Charles Borges exposed a critical national security vulnerability involving an unauthorized copy of the entire NUMIDENT Social Security database. Senior DOGE-affiliated officials uploaded a live copy of sensitive personal information for over 450 million Americans to an unsecured …
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A critical whistleblower complaint filed by Charles Borges, SSA Chief Data Officer, alleges that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) improperly copied the entire NUMIDENT database, containing sensitive personal information for over 300 million Americans, into an unsecured cloud …
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In a landmark whistleblower disclosure, Charles Borges, Chief Data Officer of the Social Security Administration (SSA), revealed that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials improperly accessed and attempted to copy the entire NUMIDENT database, containing sensitive personal information …
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SSA Chief Data Officer Charles Borges filed a comprehensive whistleblower complaint revealing a critical data security breach. DOGE employees, including Ed Coristine, created an unsecured cloud copy of the NUMIDENT database containing sensitive personal information for over 300 million Americans. …
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On August 22, 2025, the FBI executed simultaneous, court-authorized searches of John Bolton’s Maryland home and Washington, D.C. office, seizing electronic devices and documents related to potential classified information mishandling. The raid stems from an ongoing investigation into …
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On June 9, 2025, the Department of Justice under Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche released updated Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) guidelines, effectively ending the four-month enforcement pause instituted by a Trump administration executive order. The new guidelines fundamentally reshape …
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Pentagon officials initially planned to brief Elon Musk on 29 ultra-classified weapons programs related to potential conflict with China, but canceled the meeting after media reports. Musk ultimately met with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an unclassified meeting about ‘innovation and …
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EO on federal collective bargaining exclusions issued; OPM guidance and White House fact sheet published exempting agencies with national security missions from federal collective bargaining requirements
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SpaceX executives allowed Chinese investment through Cayman Islands shell companies, raising significant national security concerns about foreign ownership in a critical U.S. military contractor. Investor testimony revealed direct Chinese stakes in SpaceX, with a potential $50 million investment …
The Pentagon modified a planned meeting with Elon Musk after reports emerged that he was set to receive a classified briefing on potential U.S. war plans against China. Trump administration officials denied Musk would receive sensitive information, and the meeting was ultimately scaled back to a …
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Wealthy Chinese investors have secretly used special-purpose vehicles to invest over $30 million in Elon Musk’s private companies, including SpaceX, xAI, and Neuralink. These investments are routed through Cayman Islands-registered entities to obscure direct ownership, raising significant …
President Trump executed a coordinated mass firing of approximately 17 inspectors general across federal agencies on February 7, 2025, in an unprecedented action that effectively dismantled critical government oversight mechanisms. The purge targeted inspectors general conducting sensitive …
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Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov held a 1% stake in SpaceX through Delaware-based Heritage Trust for four years while under U.S. sanctions (2018-2022), with the stake acquired in 2017 before sanctions and disposed of before the trust was blocked in June 2022.
The Department of Justice implements a new national security data security program that potentially allows for increased surveillance of journalists. Under the program, DOJ creates mechanisms to access bulk data that could be used to track reporters, particularly those investigating administration …
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Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, 19, was appointed to DOGE and granted access to the State
Department, CISA, DHS, FEMA, and Office of Personnel Management despite being fired from
Path Network in 2022 for leaking data and running DiamondCDN which serviced the EGodly
cybercrime group. …
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Anthropic achieved comprehensive FedRAMP High certification for Claude across multiple cloud platforms, enabling secure AI deployment across all three branches of the U.S. government. Through a groundbreaking $1 OneGov deal with the General Services Administration (GSA), Anthropic offers Claude AI …
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Meta announced a groundbreaking policy shift, making its open-source Llama AI models available to US government agencies and defense contractors. Partnering with companies like Accenture, AWS, Anduril, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Oracle, Scale AI, and others, Meta opened its technology for national …
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Congressional representatives, including a bipartisan group of legislators, launched a comprehensive multi-agency investigation into xAI’s Grok AI. The investigation uncovered systemic issues with algorithmic bias, content generation risks, and problematic government contracting practices. Key …
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Oracle announced on August 15, 2023, that its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) received authority to operate Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) from the 18-agency Intelligence Community, marking a major expansion of Oracle’s access to the nation’s most classified …
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Elon Musk began regular direct communication with Vladimir Putin while controlling critical US infrastructure through SpaceX and Starlink, creating unprecedented foreign influence over defense and communications systems.
President Trump signed the $738 billion National Defense Authorization Act on December 20, 2019, which established the United States Space Force as the sixth branch of the U.S. military. The new military service, first created since the Air Force in 1947, will initially comprise 16,000 active-duty …
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President Trump overrode security clearance denials for at least 25 individuals including Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, despite FBI and CIA objections citing foreign influence, conflicts of interest, personal conduct, financial problems, and drug use. Kushner’s clearance was denied due to …
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On December 18, 2018, federal Judge Emmet Sullivan delivered a scathing rebuke to Michael Flynn during what was scheduled to be his sentencing hearing, telling Trump’s former National Security Advisor “arguably you sold your country out” for working as an unregistered foreign agent …
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President Trump abruptly reversed U.S. sanctions on Chinese telecom giant ZTE just days after China agreed to provide $500 million in loans to an Indonesian theme park featuring Trump properties. ZTE had been banned from buying U.S. components after violating sanctions on Iran and North Korea. Trump …
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Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI regarding his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition. Flynn became the first White House official and the highest-ranking Trump administration member …
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Sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov holds 1% stake in SpaceX from 2017-2022 through Delaware’s Heritage Trust, worth 10 million when acquired, valued at .5 billion today, creating security risks for classified space contracts.
Sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov held a strategic 1% stake in SpaceX from 2017-2022 through Delaware’s Heritage Trust, initially worth $10 million and later valued at $500 million. The investment, managed by Citigroup and structured to obscure Kerimov’s ownership, raised …
On March 9, 2006, Dubai Ports World (DPW) announced it would abandon its controversial plan to control US port operations, marking a pivotal moment in the Bush presidency’s foreign investment strategy. The decision came after the House Appropriations Committee voted 62-2 to block the $6.8 …
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President George W. Bush threatened to cast his first presidential veto if Congress blocked Dubai Ports World’s (DPW) acquisition of US port operations, sparking a major national security controversy. The $6.8 billion deal would have given a UAE state-owned company control of cargo terminals …
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US Coast Guard intelligence officials produced a classified report raising significant security risks associated with DP World’s proposed management of US port operations. The assessment identified critical intelligence gaps preventing proper evaluation of risks from DP World’s …
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On October 15, 2005, Dubai Ports World (DPW), a UAE state-owned company, initiated a CFIUS review to acquire British firm P&O’s port management operations, which included six major U.S. ports. The 30-day review process involved 12 government agencies, with the Intelligence Community …
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WHIG launches systematic media campaign with Bush administration officials appearing across all major networks in coordinated messaging offensive. Condoleezza Rice delivers “smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” message on CNN while Cheney appears on Meet the Press and Bush makes CBS …
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At the DARPATech 2002 Conference in Anaheim, California, Rear Admiral John Poindexter publicly unveils the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, describing it as a comprehensive surveillance system to detect terrorists by monitoring ’transaction spaces’ including financial records, …
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President George W. Bush authorized the NSA’s Stellar Wind warrantless domestic surveillance program, completely bypassing FISA court oversight in a fundamental alteration of constitutional checks and balances. The program allowed the NSA to collect phone metadata and internet communications …
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Oracle Corporation hired David W. Carney as Vice President of Information Assurance on September 4, 2001, just one week before the September 11 terrorist attacks, marking a significant deepening of Oracle’s relationship with the U.S. intelligence community. Carney retired after 32 years at the …
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Democratic fundraiser Johnny Chung receives $300,000 from Ji Shengde, the head of Chinese military intelligence, with instructions to funnel the money to help reelect President Clinton in 1996. Chung tells federal investigators that he passed on $35,000 of this money to the Democratic National …
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