Executive Power Expansion
The Executive Power Expansion capture lane traces 775 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-24 | NSA Monitored Angela Merkel's Phone and 35 Other World Leaders National Security Agency · Angela Merkel · Barack Obama · Edward Snowden | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-01 | Russia Grants Snowden Temporary Asylum After 39 Days in Moscow Airport Edward Snowden · Russia · Vladimir Putin · Anatoly Kucherena · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-21 | Obama Prosecutes 8 Whistleblowers Under Espionage Act, More Than All Presidents Barack Obama · Eric Holder · Edward Snowden · Chelsea Manning · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-03 | Google's Political Influence Derails FTC Antitrust Investigation Federal Trade Commission · Google Inc. · Larry Page · Eric Schmidt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2012-12-11 | HSBC Pays $1.9B for Money Laundering, No Executives Jailed HSBC · Lanny Breuer · Department of Justice · Mexican Drug Cartels · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2012-11-15 | BP Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges and Agrees to Record $4.5 Billion Criminal Settlement BP (British Petroleum) · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Vidrine · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2012-05-01 | Obama Administration Counts All Military-Age Males Killed by Drones as Combatants Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2011-03-23 | Trump Launches Political Career with Racist Birther Conspiracy Donald Trump · Barack Obama | confirmed | |
| 2010-04-20 | Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Begins - Environmental Disaster and Corporate Negligence BP (British Petroleum) · Transocean Ltd · Halliburton · Minerals Management Service · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-27 | Obama Criticizes Citizens United at State of Union, Alito Responds 'Not True' Barack Obama · Samuel Alito · John Roberts · Ruth Bader Ginsburg · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2009-12-21 | Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding Joins Merck as Vaccine Division President Dr. Julie Gerberding · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Merck · Gardasil vaccine | confirmed | |
| 2009-06-01 | Obama Cuts $80B PhRMA Deal Abandoning Medicare Negotiation Promise Barack Obama · PhRMA · Billy Tauzin · Jim Messina · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2009-01-20 | Obama Admin Prosecutes Zero Wall Street Executives Despite Crisis Fraud Eric Holder · Department of Justice · Wall Street Banks · Lanny Breuer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-03 | Bush Signs 00B Bank Bailout with Minimal Oversight George W. Bush · Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · Citigroup · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2008-10-03 | Congress Passes $700 Billion TARP Bailout Without Criminal Accountability Provisions Henry Paulson · Goldman Sachs · JPMorgan Chase · Bank of America · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-07 | Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Placed in Federal Conservatorship, $187 Billion Taxpayer Bailout U.S. Treasury Department · Henry Paulson · Federal Housing Finance Agency · Fannie Mae · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2008-09-04 | Jack Abramoff Sentenced to 48 Months Prison and $23 Million Restitution Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes · U.S. District Court · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-09 | FISA Amendments Act of 2008 Passes, Granting Telecom Immunity U.S. Congress · George W. Bush · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2007-11-15 | Thomas Drake Reports NSA Trailblazer Program Waste and Constitutional Violations Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · DOD Inspector General · Trailblazer Program · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2007-06-25 | DOJ Voting Section Politicization: Bush Administration Weaponizes Civil Rights Division for Voter Suppression Alberto Gonzales · Hans von Spakovsky · Bradley Schlozman · John Tanner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-05-23 | Monica Goodling Admits Political Screening of DOJ Lawyers Monica Goodling · Alberto Gonzales · Regent University · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2006-07-24 | ABA Condemns Bush 800+ Signing Statements Nullifying Oversight George W. Bush · American Bar Association · Dick Cheney · David Addington · +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 | |
| 2006-02-22 | Bush Threatens First Presidential Veto Over Dubai Ports Deal George W. Bush · Charles Schumer · Dubai Ports World · UAE · +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 | |
| 2005-11-16 | 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 | |
| 2005-08-08 | Energy Task Force Recommendations Become EPA Policy Without Review Dick Cheney · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · ExxonMobil · Chevron · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2005-06-08 | Phil Cooney Climate Science Censorship Exposed by Whistleblower Phil Cooney · Rick Piltz · James Hansen · ExxonMobil · +1 | 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 | |
| 2005-01-15 | John Negroponte Becomes First Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte · George W. Bush · Senate Intelligence Committee · Director of National Intelligence · +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 | |
| 2004-08-24 | CIA Awards Blackwater Classified Intelligence Contracts, Creating Private Paramilitary-Intelligence Capability Blackwater · Erik Prince · Central Intelligence Agency · Total Intelligence Solutions · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-06-28 | 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 | |
| 2004-03-10 | Hospital Confrontation Over NSA Surveillance Program John Ashcroft · James Comey · Alberto Gonzales · Andy Card · +1 | 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 | |
| 2003-07-14 | 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 | |
| 2003-05-01 | 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 | |
| 2003-02-28 | NSA Officer Kwiatkowski Documents OSP-WHIG Intelligence Corruption as Whistleblower Karen Kwiatkowski · Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-21 | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2002-11-25 | 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 | |
| 2002-10-16 | 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 | |
| 2002-10-05 | WHIG Systematically Withholds Contradictory Intelligence from Congress White House Iraq Group · Stephen Hadley · Scooter Libby · George Tenet · +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 | |
| 2002-09-20 | 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 | 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 | |
| 2002-09-08 | 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 | |
| 2002-09-06 | Andrew Card Reveals Marketing-Based Approach to Iraq War Campaign Andrew Card · George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · Elisabeth Bumiller | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-05 | Network Booking Coordinators Systematically Facilitate WHIG Synchronized Propaganda Appearances Network Booking Coordinators · Karen Hughes · White House Communications Staff · CNN Booking Producers · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-02 | 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 | 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 | |
| 2002-08-15 | WHIG Establishes Network Executive Coordination Protocols for Iraq Campaign White House Iraq Group · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · network executives · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | Bybee OLC 'Torture Memo' Redefines Severe Pain and Asserts Commander-in-Chief Override of Anti-Torture Statute Jay Bybee · John C. Yoo · Alberto Gonzales · David Addington · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | Cheney Establishes Legal Framework and Authorization for CIA Torture Program Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · David Addington · John Yoo · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | White House Iraq Group Formed to Coordinate WMD Propaganda Campaign Andrew Card · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · Stephen Hadley · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-07-21 | Office of Global Communications Establishes Daily Media Talking Points Distribution System Office of Global Communications · White House Iraq Group · George W. Bush · Television Network Executives · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-02-14 | Bush Administration's Systematic Destruction of Oversight Infrastructure Enables WHIG Constitutional Crisis Operations George W. Bush · Louise Jordan · Roberta Gross · Sean O'Keefe · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-15 | Post-9/11 Intelligence Budget Surge Begins, Contractor Spending Will Triple by 2007 George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2001-12-13 | Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Systematically Subordinated to Corporate Input Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · John Graham · Corporate Stakeholder Panels · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2001-10-26 | Bush Signs PATRIOT Act After 45-Day Rush with Minimal Debate George W. Bush · Russ Feingold · Tom Daschle · Jim Sensenbrenner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2001-10-04 | Bush Authorizes NSA Stellar Wind Program Bypassing FISA Court 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 John C. Yoo · Timothy E. Flanigan · Jay Bybee · David Addington · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2001-03-13 | Bush Administration Begins Systematic EPA Rollbacks with Withdrawal from Kyoto Protocol George W. Bush · Christine Todd Whitman · Dick Cheney · American Petroleum Institute · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-29 | Bush Administration Establishes Faith-Based Initiative Infrastructure for Systematic Constitutional Transformation George W. Bush · Pat Robertson · Faith-Based Organizations · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-29 | Cheney Creates Secret Energy Task Force with Oil Executives Dick Cheney · ExxonMobil · Shell Oil · BP America · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2001-01-20 | Bush Administration Hires 150 Regent University Graduates Pat Robertson · Monica Goodling · Kay Coles James · Regent University · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-12-21 | Clinton Signs Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Cementing Derivatives Deregulation Bill Clinton · Lawrence Summers · Phil Gramm · Alan Greenspan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2000-12-12 | Supreme Court Delivers Partisan Bush v. Gore Decision with Corporate Legal Team Involvement 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 Antonin Scalia · Supreme Court Conservative Majority · William Rehnquist · Clarence Thomas · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2000-03-06 | Bush Creates Rangers/Pioneers Pay-to-Play Appointment System George W. Bush · Karl Rove · Mercer Reynolds · Thomas Scully · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1999-11-12 | Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Retroactively Legalizes Citigroup Merger, Repeals Glass-Steagall President Bill Clinton · Phil Gramm · Jim Leach · Thomas Bliley Jr · +3 | confirmed |