A senior U.S. intelligence official-turned-whistleblower said Obama-era superiors pressured him to endorse flawed conclusions in a high-profile intelligence report on Russian election interference and that he was later cut out of key discussions after raising concerns about the Steele dossier’s role in shaping that assessment,

U. S. intelligence services obtained information during the 2016 presidential campaign suggesting that President Barack Obama planned to scuttle an FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and mishandling of classified information during her time as secretary of state.

Presidents in those periods faced threatened war with France (1799-1801), violent resistance to Reconstruction (1875-77), the Great Depression (1933), and Watergate (1973-74). During the only quiet ex-president-less period (1908-09), Theodore Roosevelt witnessed the return of the White Fleet’s voyage around the world.