*'''15 January.''' Famed [[Watergate]] reporter [[Bob Woodward]] criticizes CNN, [[Jake Tapper]], John Brennan and James Clapper for false statements and politicization of the intelligence community. Four political operatives at CNN Jake Tapper, [[Jim Sciutto]], Evan Perez and Woodward's former colegue [[Carl Bernstein]], colluded with two highly politicized top level Obama administration intelligence officials, ODNI James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan, under the auspices of leaks from “anonymous senior intelligence officials” – on the construct of Russian narrative to undermine the incoming presidency of Donald Trump."<ref>https://youtu.be/s9QSiw0l_nE</ref>
*'''16 January.''' Strzok's supervisors are informed that Peter Strzok failed his lie detector test in relation to the October 2016 leak to the Devlin Barrett ''Wall Street Journal'' leak and is a national security threat, yet Strzok remains on the Russia investigation and in May 2017 is assigned to the [[Mueller probe]].
*'''18 January.''' ''McClatchy News Service'' headlined a story that the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency, the [[Justice Department]], the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and representatives of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) collaborated for months in an investigation of Donald Trump, according to two anonymous sources.<ref>http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article127231799.html#storylink=cpy</ref>