| 2002-08-30 | Bartlett and Fleischer Establish Rapid Response Media Coordination Infrastructure
3 src Ari Fleischer · White House Iraq Group |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-28 | WHIG Establishes Daily Executive Producer Coordination System
3 src White House Iraq Group · Dick Cheney · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-26 | WHIG Establishes Systematic Media Coordination Infrastructure with Network Executives
3 src Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Karen Hughes · Condoleezza Rice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-25 | CBS Executives Implement Corporate Policy Changes to Accommodate WHIG Propaganda Distribution
3 src George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-15 | CNN Executives Coordinate with WHIG to Facilitate September Propaganda Rollout
3 src White House Iraq Group · Karen Hughes |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-15 | CNN Executives Meet with White House on Iraq Coverage
3 src Condoleezza Rice · Karen Hughes · CNN |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-15 | WHIG Establishes Network Executive Coordination Protocols for Iraq Campaign
3 src White House Iraq Group · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · Republican National Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-02 | Poindexter Announces DARPA Total Information Awareness Program
3 src John Poindexter · DARPA · Information Awareness Office |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-01 | Bybee OLC 'Torture Memo' Redefines Severe Pain and Asserts Commander-in-Chief Override of Anti-Torture Statute
5 src Jay Bybee · John C. Yoo · Alberto Gonzales · David Addington · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-01 | Cheney Establishes Legal Framework and Authorization for CIA Torture Program
6 src Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · David Addington · John Yoo · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-01 | DynCorp Bosnia Trafficking Scandal: Contractor Employees Purchase Women and Girls for Sexual Slavery, Face No Criminal Prosecution
2 src United Nations |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-01 | White House Iraq Group Formed to Coordinate WMD Propaganda Campaign
3 src Andrew Card · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · Stephen Hadley · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-07-31 | Entergy Purchases Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant for $180 Million, Memorandum of Understanding Creates Decade of Regulatory Conflict
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2002-07-30 | Sarbanes-Oxley Act Signed Into Law as Brief Reform Moment
3 src George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2002-07-21 | Office of Global Communications Establishes Daily Media Talking Points Distribution System
3 src White House Iraq Group · George W. Bush · Television Network Executives |
| confirmed |
| 2002-07-21 | WorldCom Files for Bankruptcy with $107 Billion in Assets
3 src Bernard Ebbers |
| confirmed |
| 2002-06-27 | Zelman v. Simmons-Harris - Supreme Court Upholds School Vouchers for Religious Schools
3 src William Rehnquist · Sandra Day O'Connor · Clarence Thomas · Institute for Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-06-25 | WorldCom Announces $3.8 Billion Accounting Fraud Discovery
3 src Bernard Ebbers |
| confirmed |
| 2002-06-24 | Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci Convicted in Operation Plunder Dome Corruption Trial, Sentenced to Five Years for Racketeering Conspiracy
4 src Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 2002-06-15 | Arthur Andersen Convicted, Destroying 85,000 Jobs Worldwide
3 src Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2002-05-17 | Bush Administration Redefines Mining Waste as Fill Material to Enable Mountaintop Removal
4 src George W. Bush · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| confirmed |
| 2002-04-01 | United States Incarceration Reaches 2 Million: Highest Imprisonment Rate in World History
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2002-03-14 | Arthur Andersen Indicted for Obstruction of Justice in Enron Scandal
3 src Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice · Michael Chertoff |
| confirmed |
| 2002-02-14 | Bush Administration's Systematic Destruction of Oversight Infrastructure Enables WHIG Constitutional Crisis Operations
3 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2002-02-12 | Tigua Casino Closes After Abramoff Double-Dealing Scheme Success
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Tigua Tribe · Ralph Reed · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-15 | Post-9/11 Intelligence Budget Surge Begins, Contractor Spending Will Triple by 2007
4 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-09 | Arthur Andersen Admits to Shredding Tons of Enron Documents
3 src Arthur Andersen |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-08 | No Child Left Behind Act Creates Testing-Industrial Complex and Punitive Accountability Regime
3 src George W. Bush · Ted Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-01 | Abramoff-Reed Execute Double-Dealing Scheme Against Tigua Tribe
3 src Jack Abramoff · Ralph Reed · Michael Scanlon · Grover Norquist |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-01 | ALEC Adopts Living Wage Mandate Preemption Act to Block Local Minimum Wage Increases
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-01 | ALEC's Corporate 'Scholarship' Program Funds Legislator Trips to Luxury Resort Conferences
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · PhRMA · Eli Lilly · State Legislatures |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-01 | Insulin Prices Begin Tripling 2002-2013 as Three Manufacturers Control 99% of Market - From $231 to $762 Annually
4 src Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · Big Pharma |
| confirmed |
| 2001-12-22 | Argentina Declares Largest Sovereign Default in History on $100+ Billion Debt After IMF Austerity Collapse
3 src International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa | | confirmed |
| 2001-12-13 | Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Systematically Subordinated to Corporate Input
3 src Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · Federal Agencies |
| confirmed |
| 2001-12-02 | Enron Bankruptcy After Energy Task Force Meetings
3 src Dick Cheney · Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Andrew Fastow |
| confirmed |
| 2001-12-01 | Argentina Imposes 'Corralito' Bank Account Freeze Under IMF Austerity, Triggering Mass Protests
3 src International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa | | confirmed |
| 2001-11-01 | Microsoft Antitrust Settlement Establishes Weak Precedent for Tech Monopolies
4 src U.S. Department of Justice · Microsoft Corporation · George W. Bush · John Ashcroft · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2001-11-01 | NSA Launches MAINWAY Database for Mass Metadata Collection
3 src National Security Agency · AT&T · Verizon · T-Mobile · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2001-10-26 | Bush Signs PATRIOT Act After 45-Day Rush with Minimal Debate
3 src George W. Bush · Tom Daschle |
| confirmed |
| 2001-10-22 | SEC Launches Investigation Into Enron's Related-Party Transactions
3 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Andrew Fastow · Kenneth Lay |
| confirmed |
| 2001-10-16 | Enron Reports $618 Million Loss and Reveals CFO Partnership Schemes
3 src Kenneth Lay · Jeffrey Skilling · Andrew Fastow |
| confirmed |
| 2001-10-04 | Bush Authorizes NSA Stellar Wind Program Bypassing FISA Court
4 src George W. Bush · Michael Hayden · National Security Agency · Dick Cheney · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2001-09-25 | Yoo OLC Memo Declares Presidential War Powers 'Plenary' and 'Unreviewable' — Post-9/11 Doctrinal Foundation
5 src John C. Yoo · Jay Bybee · David Addington · Dick Cheney · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2001-09-21 | AT&T Establishes Mass Internet Surveillance Infrastructure for NSA
3 src National Security Agency · Bush Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2001-09-17 | CIA Authorized to Conduct Extraordinary Rendition - Kidnapping Suspects for Torture Abroad
4 src Central Intelligence Agency · George W. Bush · George Tenet |
| confirmed |
| 2001-09-04 | Oracle Hires CIA Executive Director David Carney, Establishes Information Assurance Center
3 src Oracle · Central Intelligence Agency · Larry Ellison |
| confirmed |
| 2001-07-13 | Argentina Passes 'Zero Deficit Law' Under IMF Pressure, Cutting Salaries and Pensions 13%
3 src International Monetary Fund · Fernando de la Rúa | | confirmed |
| 2001-06-29 | Patients Bill of Rights Dies After HMO Industry Spends $60 Million Lobbying Against Managed Care Accountability
3 src George W. Bush · Health Insurance Association of America · John McCain · Edward Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 2001-06-07 | Bush Signs EGTRRA Tax Cuts - Top Rate Reduced from 39.6% to 35%, Estate Tax Phased Out, Beginning $1.5 Trillion Debt Increase
4 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Dennis Hastert · Trent Lott · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2001-06-01 | Abramoff-Reed Casino Scheme: Evangelical Infrastructure Monetized as Lobbying Weapon, Exposing Movement-Money Entanglement
3 src Jack Abramoff · Ralph Reed · Grover Norquist · Michael Scanlon · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2001-06-01 | Choctaw Tribe Contract Reveals Abramoff-Scanlon Lobbying Fraud
3 src Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians · Michael Scanlon · Jack Abramoff |
| confirmed |
| 2001-06-01 | Saudi Arabia purchases entire 45th floor of Trump World Tower for UN mission
3 src Saudi Arabia · Trump Organization | | confirmed |
| 2001-05-31 | Air Force Secretary James Roche Appointed After 17 Years as Northrop Grumman Executive
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2001-05-17 | National Energy Policy Adopts Enron Recommendations Verbatim
3 src Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · Enron · Kenneth Lay · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2001-05-16 | National Energy Policy Report Released Reflecting Oil Industry Priorities
3 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · Shell Oil · +5 | | confirmed |
| 2001-04-17 | Kenneth Lay's Influence on Cheney Energy Task Force: Corporate Policy Capture
4 src Kenneth Lay · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · Enron Corporation |
| confirmed |
| 2001-03-13 | Bush Administration Begins Systematic EPA Rollbacks with Withdrawal from Kyoto Protocol
3 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · American Petroleum Institute · ExxonMobil · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2001-02-22 | Clinton Pardon Scandal Reveals Payments to President's Brother and Brother-in-Law
4 src Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton |
| confirmed |
| 2001-02-09 | Cheney Energy Task Force Begins Secret Meetings with Enron Executives
4 src Dick Cheney · Kenneth Lay · George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-29 | Bush Administration Establishes Faith-Based Initiative Infrastructure for Systematic Constitutional Transformation
3 src George W. Bush · Pat Robertson · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-29 | Cheney Creates Secret Energy Task Force with Oil Executives
3 src Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · Shell Oil · BP America · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-20 | Bush Administration Hires 150 Regent University Graduates
3 src Pat Robertson · Monica Goodling · Kay Coles James · George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-20 | Clinton Pardons Fugitive Marc Rich Amid Corruption Allegations
4 src Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-12 | Clinton Roadless Rule Protects 58 Million Acres of National Forests from Logging
3 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Forest Service |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-01 | Abramoff Moves to Greenberg Traurig, Partners with Michael Scanlon
3 src Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Tom DeLay |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-01 | Bush and Obama Administrations Cement Bipartisan Chicago School Antitrust Consensus, Approve Historic Consolidation
4 src George W. Bush · Barack Obama · Department of Justice · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-01 | Purdue Pharma Bonus System Incentivizes Sales Reps to Target Highest Opioid Prescribers
3 src Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family |
| confirmed |
| 2000-12-21 | Clinton Signs Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Cementing Derivatives Deregulation
6 src Bill Clinton · Lawrence Summers · Phil Gramm · Alan Greenspan |
| confirmed |
| 2000-12-15 | Phil Gramm Inserts 262-Page CFMA into 11,000-Page Spending Bill Hours Before Christmas Recess
4 src Phil Gramm · U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · Bill Clinton · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-12-12 | Supreme Court Delivers Partisan Bush v. Gore Decision with Corporate Legal Team Involvement
4 src George W. Bush · Al Gore · William Rehnquist · Sandra Day O'Connor · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-12-09 | Supreme Court Grants Bush Emergency Stay with Scalia's "Irreparable Harm" Logic
6 src Antonin Scalia · William Rehnquist · Clarence Thomas · Sandra Day O'Connor · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-11-26 | Katherine Harris Certifies Bush Victory While Serving as Campaign Co-Chair
5 src George W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 2000-11-22 | Brooks Brothers Riot: Republican Operatives Physically Stop Miami-Dade Recount
4 src Roger Stone · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · Amy Coney Barrett · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2000-11-08 | James Baker Coordinates Bush Supreme Court Election Strategy from Day One
4 src George W. Bush · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 2000-10-10 | Clinton Signs China PNTR Ending Annual Review, Enabling WTO Entry and Manufacturing Exodus
4 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 2000-08-30 | Clear Channel Acquires AMFM Inc. Creating Radio Monopoly with Over 1,200 Stations
4 src Clear Channel Communications · Lowry Mays |
| confirmed |
| 2000-08-30 | Clear Channel Radio Empire Reaches 1,240 Stations After AMFM Acquisition - Conservative Talk Radio Infrastructure Dominates American Airwaves
5 src Clear Channel Communications · Rush Limbaugh · Lowry Mays · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 2000-06-14 | Media Magnate Gusinsky Arrested, Marking Putin's Media Crackdown
3 src Vladimir Gusinsky · Vladimir Putin | | confirmed |
| 2000-05-05 | ALEC's 'Environmental Literacy Improvement Act' Mandates Teaching Climate Denial in Schools
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heartland Institute · Koch Industries · ExxonMobil · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-05-03 | FCC Approves $35.6 Billion Viacom-CBS Merger Despite Ownership Concentration Violations
4 src Viacom · FCC Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2000-04-05 | Duncan Campbell Delivers Interception Capabilities 2000 Report to European Parliament, Forces ECHELON Inquiry
3 src National Security Agency · Government Communications Headquarters |
| confirmed |
| 2000-03-10 | Dot-Com Bubble Peaks, Exposes IPO Fraud and Analyst Conflicts
4 src Investment banks · Securities and Exchange Commission · Nasdaq |
| confirmed |
| 2000-03-06 | Bush Creates Rangers/Pioneers Pay-to-Play Appointment System
3 src George W. Bush · Karl Rove |
| confirmed |
| 2000-03-01 | Subprime Lending Explodes as Predatory Practices Spread to Minority Communities
3 src Citigroup |
| confirmed |
| 2000-02-01 | Halliburton Opens Tehran Office While Cheney Still CEO, Completing $40 Million Annual Iran Business Through Cayman Islands Subsidiary Designed to Circumvent U.S. Sanctions
3 src Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Bill Clinton |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-21 | Bolivia's Cochabamba Water War: Indigenous-Led Uprising Forces Reversal of World Bank-Mandated Bechtel Privatization
3 src World Bank | | confirmed |
| 2000-01-11 | AOL-Time Warner $164 Billion Merger Creates Largest Media Conglomerate in History
4 src FCC Federal Communications Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-09 | Ecuador President Mahuad Announces Dollarization 'Jump Into the Abyss' Amid Economic Crisis
3 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank | | confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | ALEC Membership Reaches 2,000+ State Legislators - Represents One-Quarter to One-Third of All State Legislators Nationwide
5 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | ALEC Promotes Private Correctional Facilities Act Written by CCA Executives on Criminal Justice Task Force
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Corrections Corporation of America · GEO Group · State Legislators |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | CNP and Federalist Society Coordination - Leonard Leo Links Judicial and Political Networks
2 src Council for National Policy · Federalist Society · Leonard Leo · Clarence Thomas |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Florida Disenfranchises 1.4 Million Citizens Through Felony Voting Bans, Highest Rate in Nation
4 src Florida Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Indigenous Consensus Decision-Making: A Democratic Innovation Framework
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Major Strikes Collapse to 16 Annually, Down 95% from Pre-PATCO Era
2 src American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Opioid Epidemic Death Toll Reaches 500,000 Americans Between 2000-2020
3 src Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Food and Drug Administration · Drug Enforcement Administration · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Ron Burkle becomes Diddy's business partner and godfather to his children
4 src Sean Combs · Bill Clinton · Jeffrey Epstein | | confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Stock Options Become Primary Executive Compensation, Aligning CEO Interests with Short-Term Stock Price Manipulation
3 src Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Systematic Coordination Emerges in Corporate PAC Explosion Post-Buckley
5 src Supreme Court Justices |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Top 10% of Firms Capture 90% of Profit Growth Between 1980-2000, Documenting Monopolization
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Trump, Epstein, Maxwell, and Melania at Mar-a-Lago Charity Event
3 src Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Melania Trump | | confirmed |