2000s
The 2000s contain 393 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-04-28 | Abu Ghraib Photos Reveal Private Contractors Conducted Interrogations at Military Prison CACI International · Titan Corporation · U.S. Army · Steven Stephanowicz · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Creates Consolidated Supervised Entities Program Allowing Unlimited Investment Bank Leverage Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Bear Stearns · Lehman Brothers · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Implements Alternative Net Capital Rules for Major Investment Banks Securities and Exchange Commission · Christopher Cox · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2004-04-28 | SEC Net Capital Rule Change Enables Investment Bank Leverage Explosion Fueling Housing Bubble Securities and Exchange Commission · William Donaldson · Goldman Sachs · Morgan Stanley · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2004-03-31 | Four Blackwater Contractors Killed in Fallujah Ambush, Bodies Hung from Bridge, Triggering First Battle of Fallujah Erik Prince · Blackwater · Scott Helvenston · Jerry Zovko · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2004-03-10 | Hospital Confrontation Over NSA Surveillance Program John Ashcroft · James Comey · Alberto Gonzales · Andy Card · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-02-26 | Department of Justice Files Antitrust Lawsuit to Block Oracle-PeopleSoft Merger Department of Justice · Oracle · PeopleSoft · Larry Ellison | confirmed | |
| 2004-02-22 | Washington Post Exposes Abramoff Native American Lobbying Scandal Susan Schmidt · Washington Post · Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2004-02-01 | Accenture Awarded Competitive DHS US-VISIT Contract Accenture · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Asa Hutchinson · Smart Border Alliance | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-22 | DC Opportunity Scholarship Program - First Federally-Funded School Voucher System President George W. Bush · Speaker Dennis Hastert · Senator Judd Gregg · DC Public Schools · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-13 | OCC Federal Preemption Blocks State Anti-Predatory Lending Protections OCC · John Hawke Jr · Julie Williams · Eliot Spitzer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-08 | The Apprentice Premieres on NBC, Rehabilitating Trump's Image After Bankruptcies Donald Trump · Mark Burnett · NBC | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-08 | The Apprentice Serves as 14-Season Promotional Vehicle for Trump Properties and Brand Donald Trump · NBC · Mark Burnett | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-05 | Scott Bloch Dismisses 1,000+ Whistleblower Cases at OSC Scott Bloch · Office of Special Counsel · Whistleblower Groups · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-11-25 | Bush Administration Hides 39B Medicare Part D Cost from Congress Thomas Scully · Richard Foster · George W. Bush · Charles Rangel · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-11-25 | Medicare Part D Passes After Pharmaceutical Industry Writes Price Negotiation Ban Billy Tauzin · House Energy and Commerce Committee · PhRMA · Medicare | confirmed | |
| 2003-10-01 | Christopher Poole Founds 4chan: Anonymous Imageboard Becomes Radicalization Infrastructure Christopher Poole | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-24 | Congress Officially Defunds Total Information Awareness Program U.S. Congress · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · George W. Bush · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-19 | Paul Bremer Issues CPA Order 39 Imposing Radical Free Market Restructuring on Occupied Iraq Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Iyad Allawi | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-19 | Paul Bremer Order 39 Privatizes Iraq Economy for Foreign Corporations Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · Iraqi Government · BearingPoint Inc | confirmed | |
| 2003-08-29 | John Poindexter Resigns from DARPA After TIA Scandal, Surveillance Architect Exits to Private Sector John Poindexter · DARPA · Information Awareness Office · SAIC · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-07-14 | Robert Novak Exposes CIA Operative Valerie Plame Robert Novak · Valerie Plame · Joseph Wilson · Richard Armitage · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-07-14 | Valerie Plame's CIA Identity Leaked in Retaliation for Wilson's Iraq WMD Criticism Valerie Plame · Joseph Wilson · Robert Novak · Dick Cheney · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-07-07 | WHIG Coordinates Campaign to Discredit Joseph Wilson, Leading to Plame Leak White House Iraq Group · Karl Rove · Scooter Libby · Colin Powell · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-30 | General Dynamics Acquires Veridian for $1.5 Billion, Entering Intelligence Technology Market General Dynamics · Veridian Corporation · Department of Defense · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-26 | HCA Healthcare Pays $1.7 Billion in Largest Medicare Fraud Settlement in U.S. History HCA Healthcare · Rick Scott · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-23 | Grutter v. Bollinger - Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action but Sets 25-Year Limit Justice Sandra Day O'Connor · Justice Clarence Thomas · University of Michigan Law School · Lee Bollinger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-15 | NSA Awards AT&T $500 Million Multi-Year Surveillance Infrastructure Contract George W. Bush · Michael Hayden · AT&T Leadership · NSA Officials | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-06 | Oracle Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for PeopleSoft Worth $5.1 Billion Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft · JD Edwards | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-02 | FCC Attempts Massive Media Deregulation Under Michael Powell Despite 97% Public Opposition Michael K. Powell · Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Trent Lott · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-02 | FCC Deregulation Enables Sinclair Broadcasting Expansion Michael Powell · Federal Communications Commission · Sinclair Broadcasting · David Smith · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-28 | Bush Signs JGTRRA - Dividend and Capital Gains Rates Slashed to 15%, Massively Favoring Investment Income Over Wages George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Bill Thomas · Charles Grassley · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-06 | Coalition Provisional Authority Loses .8B in Iraqi Oil Revenue Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · Stuart Bowen · Halliburton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-06 | Paul Bremer Begins Issuing 'CPA 100 Orders' to Restructure Iraq's Economy Under Military Occupation Paul Bremer · Coalition Provisional Authority · George W. Bush · Donald Rumsfeld · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-01 | Palantir Technologies Founded by Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and PayPal Engineers Peter Thiel · Alex Karp · Nathan Gettings · Joe Lonsdale · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-01 | Powell-WHIG Template Establishes Crisis-Accelerated Institutional Capture Blueprint for Ongoing Democratic Transformation George W. Bush · Powell Memorandum Institutional Network · White House Iraq Group · Heritage Foundation · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-14 | Yoo OLC Memo Exempts 'Wartime' Domestic Surveillance from Fourth Amendment — Stealth Authorization of NSA Warrantless Wiretap Program John C. Yoo · Jay Bybee · William Haynes II · Michael Hayden · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-08 | Halliburton Gets 9.5B Iraq Contracts with Cheney Ties Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · Bunnatine Greenhouse · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-08 | Halliburton KBR Receives $7 Billion No-Bid Iraq Contract Through Systematic Corporate-State Fusion Infrastructure Coordination Dick Cheney · Halliburton Corporation · Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-01 | Abu Zubaydah - Waterboarded 83 Times, Tortured for Years, Never Charged with Any Crime Abu Zubaydah · Central Intelligence Agency · James Mitchell · Bruce Jessen · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-01 | Vanity Fair editor removes Epstein victim allegations after intimidation meeting Graydon Carter · Vicky Ward · Jeffrey Epstein · Vanity Fair · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-02-28 | NSA Officer Kwiatkowski Documents OSP-WHIG Intelligence Corruption as Whistleblower Karen Kwiatkowski · Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2003-02-05 | Colin Powell Presents False WMD Evidence to UN Security Council Colin Powell · George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-02-01 | In-Q-Tel Invests in Keyhole's EarthViewer During Iraq War Buildup In-Q-Tel · Keyhole Inc. · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · CNN | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-21 | OGC Formalizes Systematic Network Coordination Infrastructure Through Executive Order George W. Bush · Office of Global Communications · White House Iraq Group · Television Network Executives · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-15 | WHIG Establishes Systematic Opposition Research and Critic Monitoring Apparatus Karl Rove · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · Condoleezza Rice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-07 | OCC Preempts Georgia Fair Lending Law, Blocking State Consumer Protections Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · John Hawke Jr · Georgia State Legislature · National City Bank · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | Clarence Thomas Begins Undisclosed Luxury Trips on Harlan Crow's Yacht and Private Jets Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Rochelle Charter (Crow's yacht company) | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | ExxonMobil Channels Millions to Climate Denial Think Tanks and Front Groups ExxonMobil · American Enterprise Institute · Cato Institute · Marshall Institute · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | Google Establishes "Double Irish, Dutch Sandwich" Tax Avoidance Structure Google · Larry Page · Sergey Brin · Irish government · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | State Policy Network Organizational Profile: Coordinating 66 State Think Tanks for Synchronized Corporate Capture State Policy Network · Thomas A. Roe · Bradley Foundation · DonorsTrust · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-12-19 | Central Park Five Exonerated: DNA Proves Innocence After 13 Years Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · Kevin Richardson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-12-18 | OSP Fabricates Iraq-al Qaeda Intelligence for WHIG Propaganda Campaign Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · Michael Maloof · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-12-01 | CIA Begins Systematic Use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques on Detainees Central Intelligence Agency · Abu Zubaydah · Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri · James Mitchell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-25 | WHIG Establishes Executive Deception Infrastructure as Constitutional Precedent for Crisis Governance White House Iraq Group · Andrew Card · Karl Rove · Dick Cheney · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-20 | OSP Systematically Bypasses CIA Vetting to Feed Fabricated Intelligence to WHIG Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · Harold Rhode · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-15 | Federalist Society Provides WHIG with Crisis-Accelerated Legal Justification Infrastructure for Powell Memorandum Implementation Federalist Society · John Yoo · Jay Bybee · Steven Calabresi · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-09 | New York Times Exposes Total Information Awareness Surveillance Program, Sparking Public Outcry New York Times · John Markoff · DARPA · John Poindexter · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-11-05 | OSP Fabricates Iraq-Al Qaeda Connection Intelligence for WHIG Distribution Douglas Feith · Paul Wolfowitz · Donald Rumsfeld · Dick Cheney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-29 | Help America Vote Act Signed: Provisional Ballots, Voter ID, and Electronic Voting Vulnerabilities George W. Bush · U.S. Election Assistance Commission | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-28 | Trump Calls Epstein "Terrific Guy" Who Likes Women "On the Younger Side" Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-25 | WHIG Coordinates Post-Vote Intelligence Suppression Campaign White House Iraq Group · Dick Cheney · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-16 | WHIG Achieves Systematic Bypass of Constitutional Separation of Powers Through Congressional Deception George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · U.S. Congress · Constitutional Framework · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-15 | OSP-WHIG Coordination Establishes Systematic Intelligence Manipulation Pipeline Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · Karl Rove · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-12 | OSP and WHIG Establish Daily Intelligence-Propaganda Coordination Meetings Douglas Feith · Paul Wolfowitz · Andrew Card · Dick Cheney · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-11 | Iraq War Authorization Vote Succeeds Through WHIG's Systematic Congressional Deception White House Iraq Group · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Senate · Hillary Clinton · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-10 | Congressional Iraq Authorization Vote Based on WHIG Fabrications White House Iraq Group · Dick Cheney · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-08 | Bush Invokes Taft-Hartley Against Locked-Out Dockworkers, First Use Since 1971 George W. Bush · Pacific Maritime Association · International Longshore and Warehouse Union · U.S. District Court | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-05 | WHIG Systematically Withholds Contradictory Intelligence from Congress White House Iraq Group · Stephen Hadley · Scooter Libby · George Tenet · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-01 | Powell Memorandum Media Infrastructure Coordinates with WHIG for Crisis-Accelerated Propaganda Implementation CNN Corporate Leadership · Fox News Corporation · CBS Corporate Structure · NBC Universal Coordination · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-10-01 | WHIG Coordinates CIA and Pentagon Misleading Presentations to Congress White House Iraq Group · George Tenet · Douglas Feith · Office of Special Plans · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-28 | WHIG Launches Coordinated Pressure Campaigns Against Congressional War Authorization Skeptics Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Michael Gerson · Dick Cheney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-25 | WHIG Launches Targeted Deception Campaigns Against Congressional War Skeptics White House Iraq Group · Robert Byrd · Ted Kennedy · Carl Levin · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-22 | WHIG Develops Targeted Deception Campaigns for Congressional Skeptics Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Condoleezza Rice · Dick Cheney · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-20 | WHIG Provides Fabricated Intelligence Briefings to Congressional Committees White House Iraq Group · George Tenet · Stephen Hadley · Scooter Libby · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-18 | WHIG Intelligence Briefing Coordination with Congress: Systematic Misrepresentation Karl Rove · Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · Lewis 'Scooter' Libby · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-15 | Major Network News Divisions Integrate WHIG Messaging Guidelines White House Iraq Group · Dick Cheney · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-15 | Powell Memorandum Institutional Network Establishes Systematic Crisis Coordination with WHIG Operations American Enterprise Institute · Cato Institute · Hoover Institution · Federalist Society · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-15 | WHIG Coordinates Systematic Deception in Classified Congressional Intelligence Briefings Karl Rove · Nicholas E. Calio · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-12 | Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski Indicted for $600 Million Fraud Dennis Kozlowski · Mark Swartz · Mark Belnick | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-08 | WHIG Launches 'Smoking Gun/Mushroom Cloud' Propaganda Blitz White House Iraq Group · Condoleezza Rice · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-07 | WHIG Coordinates Sunday Show Booking Blitz Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · Donald Rumsfeld · Richard Myers · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-07 | WHIG Executes Coordinated Media Blitz Demonstrating Crisis Template Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · George W. Bush · Andrew H. Card Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-06 | Andrew Card Reveals Marketing-Based Approach to Iraq War Campaign Andrew Card · George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · Elisabeth Bumiller | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-06 | WHIG Provides Networks Pre-Written Interview Questions and Expert Lists White House Iraq Group · Dick Cheney · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-05 | Network Booking Coordinators Systematically Facilitate WHIG Synchronized Propaganda Appearances Network Booking Coordinators · Karen Hughes · White House Communications Staff · CNN Booking Producers · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-05 | WHIG Develops "Smoking Gun/Mushroom Cloud" Propaganda Template Michael Gerson · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · George W. Bush · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-02 | Heritage Foundation Coordinates with WHIG for Crisis-Accelerated Implementation of Powell Memorandum Blueprint Heritage Foundation · White House Iraq Group · Edwin Feulner · Paul Weyrich · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | CIA Creates Iraqi Operations Group Under Political Pressure George Tenet · Dick Cheney · Scooter Libby · Iraqi Operations Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | Network Executives Implement WHIG Synchronized Booking Protocol White House Iraq Group · Dick Cheney · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | Pentagon Creates Office of Special Plans for Iraq Intelligence Manipulation Douglas Feith · Abram Shulsky · Pentagon · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | Think Tank Network Coordinates Iraq War Support Following Powell Memo Template American Enterprise Institute · Heritage Foundation · Dick Cheney · Paul Wolfowitz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | WHIG Establishes Systematic Talking Points Distribution Network Across Media Platforms Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Condoleezza Rice · Karen Hughes · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | White House Iraq Group Launches Coordinated Media Messaging Campaign Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-30 | Bartlett and Fleischer Establish Rapid Response Media Coordination Infrastructure Dan Bartlett · Ari Fleischer · White House Iraq Group · television network reporters · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-28 | WHIG Establishes Daily Executive Producer Coordination System White House Iraq Group · Dick Cheney · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-26 | WHIG Establishes Systematic Media Coordination Infrastructure with Network Executives Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Karen Hughes · Condoleezza Rice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-25 | CBS Executives Implement Corporate Policy Changes to Accommodate WHIG Propaganda Distribution Leslie Moonves · CBS News Division · CBS Corporate Legal · George W. Bush · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-15 | CNN Executives Coordinate with WHIG to Facilitate September Propaganda Rollout Walter Isaacson · CNN Executives · White House Iraq Group · Karen Hughes · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-15 | CNN Executives Meet with White House on Iraq Coverage Walter Isaacson · Eason Jordan · Condoleezza Rice · Karen Hughes · +1 | confirmed |