2000s
The 2000s contain 393 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-03-06 | Scooter Libby Convicted on Four Counts in CIA Leak Case Lewis 'Scooter' Libby · Patrick Fitzgerald · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2007-03-01 | Stephen Miller and Richard Spencer Organize White Nationalist Speaker at Duke University Stephen Miller · Richard Spencer | confirmed | |
| 2007-01-01 | ALEC Launches 'Rich States, Poor States' Report with Arthur Laffer - Annual Corporate Tax Competition Manifesto to Drive Interstate Race-to-Bottom American Legislative Exchange Council · Arthur Laffer · Stephen Moore · Jonathan Williams · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-01-01 | Cellebrite Launches Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) for Law Enforcement Cellebrite | confirmed | |
| 2007-01-01 | Israel Passes Defense Export Control Law, Creating Framework That Enables Pegasus as Diplomatic Weapon Israeli Ministry of Defense · Defense Export Control Agency (DECA) · Benjamin Netanyahu · NSO Group | confirmed | |
| 2007-01-01 | Palantir Begins Rapid Expansion Across U.S. Government Agencies Palantir Technologies · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-31 | New Century Financial Conceals Massive Early Payment Defaults Through Accounting Fraud in 2006 New Century Financial Corporation · Brad Morrice · David Einhorn · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-29 | AT&T Completes $86 Billion BellSouth Acquisition: Bell System Reassembled After 1984 Breakup AT&T Inc. · BellSouth Corporation · Federal Communications Commission · SBC Communications | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-07 | Bush Administration Fires 9 U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons Alberto Gonzales · Karl Rove · David Iglesias · Carol Lam · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-12-01 | Subprime Mortgage Delinquencies Surge to 13%, Nearly Double Mid-2005 Rates, as Crisis Accelerates Subprime borrowers · Mortgage lenders · Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2006-10-23 | Jeffrey Skilling Sentenced to 24 Years for Enron Fraud Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice · Sim Lake | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-29 | Bush Signs Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, But Law Fails to Address Core Conflicts of Interest President George W. Bush · Securities and Exchange Commission · Moody's Investors Service · Standard & Poor's · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-29 | Federal Regulators Issue Weakened Mortgage Guidance After Year of Industry Lobbying, Ignoring Warnings Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Reserve · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · Office of Thrift Supervision · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-15 | Congressman Bob Ney Pleads Guilty in Abramoff Corruption Scandal Bob Ney · Jack Abramoff · U.S. House of Representatives · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-09-06 | Bush Publicly Acknowledges CIA Secret Prisons for First Time, Transfers Detainees to Guantanamo George W. Bush · Central Intelligence Agency · Khalid Sheikh Mohammed · Abu Zubaydah · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-27 | Voting Rights Act Reauthorization of 2006: 25-Year Extension Passes with Bipartisan Supermajority Before Conservative Legal Assault George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · James Sensenbrenner · John Lewis · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-24 | ABA Condemns Bush 800+ Signing Statements Nullifying Oversight George W. Bush · American Bar Association · Dick Cheney · David Addington · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-05 | Ken Lay Dies Before Sentencing, Conviction Later Vacated Kenneth Lay | confirmed | |
| 2006-07-01 | Housing Bubble Peaks as Predatory Subprime Lending Reaches Maximum, Setting Stage for Collapse Countrywide Financial · New Century Financial · Washington Mutual · Ameriquest · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-06-07 | Model Ruslana Korshunova, 18, flies to Epstein's island two years before suspicious death Ruslana Korshunova · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2006-06-01 | Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates to 5.25%, Triggering Payment Shock for Subprime Borrowers Federal Reserve · Ben Bernanke · Subprime borrowers · Mortgage lenders | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-25 | Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling Convicted of Enron Fraud and Conspiracy Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-18 | Competitive Enterprise Institute Launches "CO2 is Life" Advertising Campaign Competitive Enterprise Institute · Myron Ebell · ExxonMobil · Curt Davis | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-15 | eBay v. MercExchange: Supreme Court Limits Automatic Patent Injunctions, Enabling Patent Troll Business Model to Flourish U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Anthony Kennedy · eBay · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-08 | Michael Hayden Nominated as CIA Director Despite NSA Surveillance Controversy Michael Hayden · George W. Bush · Senate Intelligence Committee · National Security Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-01 | Magnetar Capital Launches $30 Billion CDO Strategy, Betting Against Housing While Encouraging Investor Purchases Magnetar Capital · JPMorgan Chase · Investment banks · Institutional investors | confirmed | |
| 2006-03-09 | Dubai Ports World Abandons US Port Takeover Under Congressional Pressure Dubai Ports World · House Appropriations Committee · Charles Schumer · Dennis Hastert · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2006-03-01 | FBI Infiltrates Orange County Mosques with Informant in Dragnet Surveillance Federal Bureau of Investigation · Craig Monteilh · Muslim community · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2006-02-22 | Bush Threatens First Presidential Veto Over Dubai Ports Deal George W. Bush · Charles Schumer · Dubai Ports World · UAE · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-29 | NSA Cancels Trailblazer Program After SAIC Wastes Over $1 Billion on Failed Surveillance System Science Applications International Corporation · National Security Agency · Michael Hayden · William Binney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-23 | Ameriquest Agrees to $325 Million Settlement for Predatory Lending Practices with 49 States Ameriquest Mortgage Company · ACC Capital Holdings · State Attorneys General · California Attorney General Bill Lockyer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-03 | Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty in 5M Corruption Scandal Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Bob Ney · Tom DeLay · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | Ares Management Acquires Aspen Dental: Private Equity Dental Roll-Up Strategy Launches Industry Consolidation Aspen Dental · Ares Management · Leonard Green & Partners · American Securities | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | Countrywide Begins Process to Switch to Office of Thrift Supervision for Lighter Regulation Countrywide Financial · Angelo Mozilo · Office of Thrift Supervision · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | IndyMac and WaMu Drive Option ARM Mortgages to 42% of Adjustable-Rate Market in 2006 IndyMac Bank · Washington Mutual · Countrywide Financial · Wachovia · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | Palantir Wins First Major Contract with Joint IED Defeat Organization for Iraq and Afghanistan Palantir Technologies · Joint IED Defeat Organization · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-01 | Synthetic CDO Issuance Explodes to $61 Billion in 2006, Amplifying Housing Market Risk Exponentially Goldman Sachs · Deutsche Bank · Morgan Stanley · JPMorgan Chase · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-16 | New York Times Exposes NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program James Risen · Eric Lichtblau · New York Times · George W. Bush · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-15 | Coast Guard Identifies Critical Intelligence Gaps in Dubai Ports World Deal US Coast Guard · Dubai Ports World · UAE · 9/11 Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-15 | NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice Reports Illegal Domestic Surveillance Russell Tice · National Security Agency · Senate Intelligence Committee · James Risen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-28 | Rep. Duke Cunningham Pleads Guilty to $2.4 Million Bribery Scheme Duke Cunningham · Mitchell Wade · Carol Lam · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-16 | Energy Committee Hearings Expose Oil Industry Climate Denial Campaign and Regulatory Capture House Energy and Commerce Committee · Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · American Petroleum Institute | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-16 | Oil Executives Deny Task Force Participation Despite Documentary Evidence ExxonMobil · Chevron · ConocoPhillips · Shell Oil · +11 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-09 | CIA Destroys 92 Torture Interrogation Videotapes to Conceal Evidence Jose Rodriguez · Central Intelligence Agency · Gina Haspel · Abu Zubaydah · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-08 | Dick Cheney Lobbies Congress for CIA Exemption from McCain Torture Ban Dick Cheney · John McCain · Porter Goss · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-07 | Harry Markopolos Submits 'The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud' to SEC, Agency Ignores Detailed Evidence for Third Time Harry Markopolos · Securities and Exchange Commission · Bernie Madoff | confirmed | |
| 2005-11-02 | Washington Post Reveals CIA's Secret Prison Network in Eastern Europe Central Intelligence Agency · Dana Priest · Washington Post · Poland · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-10-28 | Karl Rove Orchestrates Political Prosecution of Don Siegelman Don Siegelman · Karl Rove · Jill Simpson · Leura Canary · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-10-15 | Dubai Ports World Initiates Controversial CFIUS Review for US Port Management Acquisition Dubai Ports World · Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum · CFIUS · US Coast Guard · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-09-28 | House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Indicted for Money Laundering and Conspiracy Tom DeLay | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-29 | Hurricane Katrina Enables .4B No-Bid Disaster Capitalism Takeover Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Bechtel · Shaw Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-25 | Hans von Spakovsky Overrules DOJ Career Staff to Approve Georgia Voter ID Law Targeting Black Voters Hans von Spakovsky · Department of Justice Civil Rights Division · Georgia Legislature · Harold Murphy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-11 | Jack Abramoff Indicted for Wire Fraud in SunCruz Casinos Purchase Jack Abramoff · Adam Kidan | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-08 | Energy Task Force Recommendations Become EPA Policy Without Review Dick Cheney · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · ExxonMobil · Chevron · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-03 | FBI Finds $90,000 in Cash Hidden in Rep. William Jefferson's Freezer William Jefferson · Lori Mody | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-28 | KBR Employee Jamie Leigh Jones Alleges Gang Rape in Iraq, Exposes Systematic Use of Mandatory Arbitration to Shield Contractor Accountability Jamie Leigh Jones · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Halliburton · Ted Poe · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-13 | WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison Bernard Ebbers · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2005-07-01 | Bain, KKR, and Vornado Acquire Toys 'R' Us for $6.6 Billion, Loading Company with $5 Billion Debt Bain Capital · KKR · Vornado Realty Trust · Toys R Us | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-30 | Investigation Reveals $15M in Lobbyist-Funded Congressional Travel and Fact-Finding Junkets Tom DeLay · Jack Abramoff · Susan Hirschmann · Robert Wexler | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-15 | FAA Delegates Safety Certification Authority to Boeing Through Organization Designation Authorization Program Federal Aviation Administration · Boeing Corporation · Aircraft manufacturers · FAA certification officials · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-08 | Phil Cooney Climate Science Censorship Exposed by Whistleblower Phil Cooney · Rick Piltz · James Hansen · ExxonMobil · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-03 | L-3 Communications Acquires Titan Corporation for $2.65 Billion, Absorbing Abu Ghraib Contractor L-3 Communications · Titan Corporation · Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2005-05-23 | Trump Launches "Trump University" Real Estate Seminars Without Academic License or Accreditation Donald Trump · Michael Sexton | confirmed | |
| 2005-05-10 | Bradbury OLC Memos Reconstruct CIA Interrogation Authorization Post-Goldsmith Withdrawal — Three May 2005 Memos Re-authorize Waterboarding Steven G. Bradbury · Alberto Gonzales · John A. Rizzo · David Addington · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-20 | Bankruptcy Act Makes Private Student Loans Non-Dischargeable - Weaponizing Law Against Students George W. Bush · MBNA · Sallie Mae | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-20 | Two Decades of Bankruptcy Weaponization: Students Crushed While Corporations Shield Billions (2005-2024) Corinthian Colleges · ITT Tech · University of Phoenix · Purdue Pharma · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-11 | Trump Admits to Entering Pageant Dressing Rooms on Howard Stern Donald Trump · Howard Stern | confirmed | |
| 2005-04-01 | Public Citizen Report Shows 43% of Lawmakers Leaving Congress Became Lobbyists Public Citizen · U.S. Congress · K Street | confirmed | |
| 2005-03-14 | Tom Daschle Joins Private Equity Firm and Lobbying After Senate Majority Leadership Tom Daschle · InterMedia Advisors · Alston & Bird · Leo Hindery | confirmed | |
| 2005-03-01 | Palm Beach police investigation begins after parent reports $300 payment to 14-year-old Palm Beach Police Department · Jeffrey Epstein · Unnamed parent · 14-year-old victim · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-15 | John Negroponte Becomes First Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte · George W. Bush · Senate Intelligence Committee · Director of National Intelligence · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-07 | Armstrong Williams Paid 40K for Illegal Government Propaganda Armstrong Williams · Rod Paige · U.S. Department of Education · Ketchum Inc · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-03 | Dick Gephardt Founds Lobbying Firm After 28 Years as House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt · Gephardt Group · DLA Piper | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-01 | ALEC Approves 'Great Schools Tax Credit' Model - Launches Systematic Education Privatization Campaign American Legislative Exchange Council · ALEC Education Task Force · K12 Inc. · Koch Industries · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-01 | ALEC Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Models Achieve Nationwide Adoption, Guaranteeing Private Prison Profits American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · State Legislators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-01 | CIA's In-Q-Tel Makes Strategic Investment in Palantir Technologies In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Palantir Technologies | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-01 | Private Equity Assets Under Management Reach $1 Trillion, Enabling Systematic Extraction Across Economy Blackstone · KKR · Bain Capital · Apollo · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-17 | Intelligence Reform Act Creates DNI, Accelerates Contractor Dependence George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · 9/11 Commission · Office of the Director of National Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-15 | Billy Tauzin Joins PhRMA as CEO After Shepherding $200B Medicare Drug Bill Billy Tauzin · PhRMA · Medicare | confirmed | |
| 2004-12-13 | Oracle Completes PeopleSoft Acquisition for $10.3 Billion After Defeating Antitrust Challenge Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft · JD Edwards | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-30 | Trump Outbids Epstein for Palm Beach Mansion, Ending Friendship Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Judge Steven Friedman · Joseph Luzinski (bankruptcy trustee) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-21 | Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Files Bankruptcy, Trump Removed as CEO Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-18 | FDA Whistleblower David Graham Testifies on Vioxx Cover-up Before Senate Dr. David Graham · Food and Drug Administration · Merck · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-02 | Diebold Voting Machine Irregularities in Ohio 2004 Presidential Election Walden O'Dell · John Conyers · Kenneth Blackwell · Matt Damschroder | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-02 | Massey Energy CEO Spends $3 Million to Elect Judge in Case Against His Company Don Blankenship · Brent Benjamin · Hugh Caperton · Massey Energy Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-02 | Ohio Evangelical Turnout Delivers Bush Reelection: "Values Voters" Become the Decisive Electoral Bloc George W. Bush · Ken Blackwell · Rod Parsley · Russell Johnson | confirmed | |
| 2004-10-27 | Google Acquires CIA-Backed Keyhole, Foundation for Google Earth Google · Keyhole Inc. · In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2004-09-30 | Merck Withdraws Vioxx After Concealing Heart Attack Risk, FDA Failure Causes Estimated 28,000-55,000 Deaths Merck · Food and Drug Administration · David Graham · Raymond Gilmartin | confirmed | |
| 2004-08-24 | CIA Awards Blackwater Classified Intelligence Contracts, Creating Private Paramilitary-Intelligence Capability Blackwater · Erik Prince · Central Intelligence Agency · Total Intelligence Solutions · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-08-19 | Google IPO Raises $1.67B With "Don't Be Evil" Motto Google · Larry Page · Sergey Brin · Eric Schmidt | confirmed | |
| 2004-08-10 | Porter Goss Begins Systematic Purge of CIA Analysts Porter Goss · John McLaughlin · Stephen Kappes · Michael Sulick · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-22 | Koch Network Restructures: CSE Splits into FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity David Koch · Charles Koch · Dick Armey · Nancy Pfotenhauer · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-11 | CIA Director George Tenet Departs After Iraq Intelligence Failures, Joins Investment Bank and Intelligence Company Boards George Tenet · Allen & Company · QinetiQ · L-1 Identity Solutions · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-07 | Enron Founder Ken Lay Indicted on 11 Counts of Fraud and Conspiracy Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2004-07-01 | Kroll Associates sold to Marsh & McLennan for $1.9 billion Kroll Associates · Marsh & McLennan · Jules Kroll | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-28 | WHIG-Enabled Torture Authorization Establishes Executive Immunity Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Governance John Yoo · Jay Bybee · Alberto Gonzales · White House Iraq Group · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-24 | Supreme Court Protects Cheney Energy Task Force Secrecy Dick Cheney · U.S. Supreme Court · Anthony Kennedy · Antonin Scalia · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-04 | Stewart v. Blackwell Applies Bush v. Gore Equal Protection Precedent to Ohio Voting Disparities Sixth Circuit Court · Ohio Secretary of State · Ken Blackwell · Stewart v. Blackwell plaintiffs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-01 | The Apprentice Serves as 14-Season Promotional Vehicle for Trump Properties and Brand Donald Trump · Mark Burnett · NBC | reported | |
| 2004-05-10 | Canada Concludes Maher Arar Wrongly Rendered to Syria for Torture Based on False Intelligence Maher Arar · Central Intelligence Agency · Royal Canadian Mounted Police · Syria · +1 | confirmed |