Drop Site News
Our investigations stand on Drop Site News' reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The reporting we cite
10 stories, each opening at its source.
- Drop Site News — Democrats for Mike Rogers Coalition Is Powered by Right-Wingers
- Drop Site News — the $10B WWPS shortlist (one of eight firms) and the scrubbed Manatt 'capture strategy' biography
- Drop Site News — reporting the SKDK/Stagwell–MoFA relationship (cites the FARA filing)
- Drop Site News — interview with David Pyne (ex-Pentagon Arrow 2 civilian; ex-aide to Sen. Mike Lee)
- Drop Site News, ‘Ask Jeffrey’: Epstein Ran Wexner’s Pro-Israel Philanthropy from the Inside (December 9, 2025)
- Drop Site News ongoing investigative series on Epstein's brokering role for Wexner, Barak, and multiple heads of state (2024–2025)
- Larry Ellison, Netanyahu, and vetting for Israel — Drop Site (hacked-email reporting; treated as a lead, not a FACT anchor)
- Drop Site News — Benjamin Moser's remarks that Israel is 'actively fomenting' antisemitism by claiming to act in the name of all Jews
- Drop Site News — 'Epstein, Israel, and the CIA: How the Iran-Contra Planes Landed at Les Wexner's Base' (the Benz-aligned account)
- Drop Site News — rare survivors of the Pacific boat strikes
Where their work appears on this site
- Rented Democrats →
- Epstein and 'Spook Air' →
- Execution at Sea →
- In Our Names →
- The Permanent Pollster →
- The Ellison Press →
- The Gavel and the Contract →
- U.S. Makes, Israel Takes: Who Really Built Iron Beam and Arrow →
- Leslie Wexner →
- The Epstein Class →
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
- Fake Opposition →
- Media Ownership →
- Military Grift →
- Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
- The Club →
How we graded the claims built on their work
21 FACT · 6 PROBABLY TRUE · 2 SOME SMOKE · 1 PURE SPECULATION. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- Rented Democrats →
'Democrats for Mike Rogers' is predominantly Republican-funded — its two biggest checks came from GOP super PACs.
FACT - The Gavel and the Contract →
2010: the $10 billion shortlist, and a company bio later scrubbed from the web.
FACT - The Permanent Pollster →
A firm in Penn’s Stagwell empire registered as a foreign agent for Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
FACT - The Permanent Pollster →
A leaked, Stagwell-branded report advised Israel to ‘foment fear of Radical Islam.’
PROBABLY TRUE - U.S. Makes, Israel Takes: Who Really Built Iron Beam and Arrow →
A named Pentagon official who ran Arrow 2: the US did the work and paid the bill, and Israel wouldn't share the result.
FACT - Leslie Wexner →
Birthright Israel, Wexner Israel Fellowship, Hillel International renewal, and PEJE: the visible Mega Group outputs
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Cohn Exports the Model: The Lineage to Maxwell and Epstein
PROBABLY TRUE - The Ellison Press →
Ellison is personally close to Benjamin Netanyahu.
FACT - Leslie Wexner →
Epstein as trustee, 1992–2007
FACT - The Gavel and the Contract →
His own disclosures: from little to steadily richer.
FACT - In Our Names →
Moser's sharper claim — Israel 'foments antisemitism' by acting in all Jews' names — is his argument, posed not asserted.
SOME SMOKE - U.S. Makes, Israel Takes: Who Really Built Iron Beam and Arrow →
Section 219 would make the one-way arrangement permanent — written into the must-pass defense bill.
FACT - The Gavel and the Contract →
Seven months after he took the gavel, Aegis won a billion-dollar embassy contract.
FACT - The Gavel and the Contract →
She built Aegis's American arm — from two employees to nearly a thousand.
FACT - The Gavel and the Contract →
The campaign's answer — and the deflection in it.
FACT - Leslie Wexner →
The Ehud Barak payments, 2004–2006
FACT - Leslie Wexner →
The Foundation and its programs
FACT - Rented Democrats →
The front figures aren't the organic Democratic grassroots they appear to be.
FACT - U.S. Makes, Israel Takes: Who Really Built Iron Beam and Arrow →
The laser that became Iron Beam was a US program first — 'THEL became Iron Beam.'
FACT - The Gavel and the Contract →
The line we will not cross: 'he slow-walked Benghazi to protect her.'
PURE SPECULATION - Epstein and 'Spook Air' →
The load-bearing claim — that Epstein was the 'authorized signatory' who brokered the move — is better-sourced than a viral thread, but still not proven.
SOME SMOKE - The Gavel and the Contract →
The marriage, and where Kristi Clemens came from.
FACT - The Gavel and the Contract →
The revolving door: and then he joined the industry he'd overseen.
FACT - Execution at Sea →
The three Ecuadorian strikes may be a separate, covert CIA program — not Operation Southern Spear.
PROBABLY TRUE - U.S. Makes, Israel Takes: Who Really Built Iron Beam and Arrow →
The US funded Arrow to the tune of ~$4–5 billion — and Israel's 'share' was largely paid with US aid.
FACT - Leslie Wexner →
The Wexner Foundation as a funding channel to Ehud Barak
PROBABLY TRUE - U.S. Makes, Israel Takes: Who Really Built Iron Beam and Arrow →
US intelligence warned the tech was being handed to China — a 1999 DIA report said so.
FACT - U.S. Makes, Israel Takes: Who Really Built Iron Beam and Arrow →
US universities and taxpayers quietly did the R&D — routed through the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
FACT - Leslie Wexner →
What Wexner Foundation records look like once Epstein’s trustee role and the $2.3M Barak transfers are factored in
PROBABLY TRUE - Leslie Wexner →
Wikipedia and later reporting call the Mega Group a pro-Israel lobby; the 1998 WSJ called it philanthropic
PROBABLY TRUE