| 2002-10-01 | WHIG Coordinates CIA and Pentagon Misleading Presentations to Congress
3 src White House Iraq Group · George Tenet · Douglas Feith · Office of Special Plans · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-28 | WHIG Launches Coordinated Pressure Campaigns Against Congressional War Authorization Skeptics
3 src Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Michael Gerson · Dick Cheney · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-25 | WHIG Launches Targeted Deception Campaigns Against Congressional War Skeptics
3 src White House Iraq Group · Ted Kennedy · Carl Levin · John Conyers · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-20 | WHIG Provides Fabricated Intelligence Briefings to Congressional Committees
3 src White House Iraq Group · George Tenet · Stephen Hadley · Scooter Libby · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-18 | WHIG Intelligence Briefing Coordination with Congress: Systematic Misrepresentation
4 src 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
3 src American Enterprise Institute · Cato Institute · Hoover Institution · Federalist Society · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-15 | WHIG Coordinates Systematic Deception in Classified Congressional Intelligence Briefings
3 src Karl Rove · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · Senate Intelligence Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-08 | WHIG Launches 'Smoking Gun/Mushroom Cloud' Propaganda Blitz
3 src White House Iraq Group · Condoleezza Rice · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-07 | WHIG Coordinates Sunday Show Booking Blitz
9 src Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · Donald Rumsfeld · Richard Armitage · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-06 | Andrew Card Reveals Marketing-Based Approach to Iraq War Campaign
3 src Andrew Card · George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-05 | Network Booking Coordinators Systematically Facilitate WHIG Synchronized Propaganda Appearances
3 src Karen Hughes |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-02 | Heritage Foundation Coordinates with WHIG for Crisis-Accelerated Implementation of Powell Memorandum Blueprint
3 src Heritage Foundation · White House Iraq Group · Edwin Feulner · Paul Weyrich · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-01 | CIA Creates Iraqi Operations Group Under Political Pressure
3 src George Tenet · Dick Cheney · Scooter Libby |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-01 | Network Executives Implement WHIG Synchronized Booking Protocol
4 src 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
3 src Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Condoleezza Rice · Karen Hughes · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-09-01 | White House Iraq Group Launches Coordinated Media Messaging Campaign
3 src Karl Rove · Andrew Card · Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 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 |
| 2002-08-01 | 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 | White House Iraq Group Formed to Coordinate WMD Propaganda Campaign
3 src Andrew Card · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · Stephen Hadley · +3 |
| 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 |
| 2002-02-14 | Bush Administration's Systematic Destruction of Oversight Infrastructure Enables WHIG Constitutional Crisis Operations
3 src George W. Bush · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2002-01-15 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 2001-10-26 | Bush Signs PATRIOT Act After 45-Day Rush with Minimal Debate
3 src George W. Bush · Tom Daschle |
| 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 |
| 2001-03-13 | Bush Administration Begins Systematic EPA Rollbacks with Withdrawal from Kyoto Protocol
3 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · American Petroleum Institute · ExxonMobil · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-29 | 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 |
| 2000-12-21 | Clinton Signs Commodity Futures Modernization Act, Cementing Derivatives Deregulation
6 src Bill Clinton · Lawrence Summers · Phil Gramm · Alan Greenspan |
| confirmed |
| 2000-12-12 | 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 |
| 2000-03-06 | Bush Creates Rangers/Pioneers Pay-to-Play Appointment System
3 src George W. Bush · Karl Rove |
| confirmed |
| 1999-11-12 | Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Retroactively Legalizes Citigroup Merger, Repeals Glass-Steagall
6 src Bill Clinton · Phil Gramm · Citigroup · Sandy Weill · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1998-12-19 | House of Representatives Impeaches President Clinton on Perjury and Obstruction Charges
4 src Bill Clinton · House Republicans · Kenneth Starr |
| confirmed |
| 1998-10-01 | Electronic Industries Alliance Blacklisting - K Street Project Enforcement
3 src Tom DeLay · Newt Gingrich · Jack Abramoff · Grover Norquist |
| confirmed |
| 1998-01-17 | Monica Lewinsky Affair Becomes Public as Clinton Issues Denial
3 src Bill Clinton · Kenneth Starr |
| confirmed |
| 1996-04-24 | Clinton Signs AEDPA, Expands Federal Surveillance and Creates FTO Terrorism Framework
3 src Bill Clinton · Orrin Hatch · Bob Dole · Joe Biden |
| confirmed |
| 1994-09-27 | Dellinger OLC Haiti Memo Establishes 'Consultation-Not-Authorization' Framework for War Powers — the Clinton-Era Doctrinal Bridge
5 src Bill Clinton · U.S. Office of Legal Counsel · Bob Dole · Strom Thurmond · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1994-09-13 | Violent Crime Control Act Expands Federal Wiretap Predicates and Roving Wiretap Authority
2 src Bill Clinton · Joe Biden · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1993-01-01 | Grover Norquist Wednesday Meetings Begin - Conservative Coordination Hub
3 src Grover Norquist · Americans for Tax Reform |
| confirmed |
| 1991-01-01 | Sean Combs joins Uptown Records under Andre Harrell, beginning rapid rise
4 src Sean Combs | | confirmed |
| 1988-06-29 | Morrison v. Olson: Scalia's Lone Dissent Articulates Unitary-Executive Theory That Becomes Movement Doctrine
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · William Rehnquist · Antonin Scalia · Edwin Meese |
| confirmed |
| 1987-11-18 | Iran-Contra Minority Report: Cheney, Addington Lay Groundwork for Unitary-Executive Doctrine That Shapes Bush II and Trump II
3 src Dick Cheney · David Addington · Henry Hyde · Orrin Hatch · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1986-02-25 | Meese Announces West Publishing Deal: Presidential Signing Statements Enter U.S. Code Legislative History
3 src Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Samuel Alito · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1984-06-01 | CIA Director Casey and Oliver North Create "The Enterprise" -- A Private Intelligence Operation Template
4 src William Casey · Oliver North · John Poindexter · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1983-06-23 | INS v. Chadha: Supreme Court Invalidates Legislative Veto in 200+ Statutes, Structural Shift Toward Executive Power
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Warren Burger · Byron White · William Rehnquist · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1983-01-01 | Reagan Administration's Mass Immigration Emergency Plan Mandates 10,000 Detention Beds — First Systematic Detention Infrastructure Requirement in U.S. History
4 src Ronald Reagan · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · Kenneth Starr |
| confirmed |
| 1981-12-04 | Reagan Signs Executive Order 12333, Loosening Intelligence Restrictions and Enabling Private Contractor Involvement
4 src Ronald Reagan · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1981-09-29 | Reagan Orders Coast Guard Interdiction of Haitian Refugees, Establishing Maritime Asylum Denial
3 src Ronald Reagan · U.S. Coast Guard · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of State |
| confirmed |
| 1981-07-01 | AG Smith Declares Detention-as-Deterrence Doctrine, Eliminating Bond Rights for Asylum Seekers
5 src Ronald Reagan · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · Haitian refugees |
| confirmed |
| 1981-06-05 | AIDS Epidemic Begins: Reagan Administration Maintains Years of Deadly Silence
4 src Ronald Reagan · C. Everett Koop |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-28 | Reagan Appoints James Watt as Interior Secretary - Oil Industry Capture
5 src Ronald Reagan · James Watt |
| confirmed |
| 1981-01-01 | ALEC Establishes Cabinet Task Forces and Partners with Reagan's Task Force on Federalism
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1980-11-04 | Ronald Reagan Elected President, Conservative Infrastructure Achieves Powell Memo Goals
3 src Ronald Reagan · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1980-07-01 | Reagan Aide Edwin Meese Coordinates with Heritage on "Mandate for Leadership"
2 src Edwin Meese III · Ronald Reagan · Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Charles Heatherly Produces "Mandate for Leadership" Outline, Assembling 300 Contributors
2 src Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | ALEC Begins Tobacco Industry Partnership for Legislative Influence
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Begins "Mandate for Leadership" Preparation for Reagan Transition
2 src Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-25 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as Executive-Power Bargain: Statutory Authorization in Exchange for Court Review Becomes Template
3 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Frank Church · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Clark Clifford and Robert Altman Begin Representing BCCI in US Operations
3 src Agha Hasan Abedi |
| confirmed |
| 1977-12-28 | International Emergency Economic Powers Act: Carter-Era Statute Becomes Principal Modern Instrument of Unilateral Economic Action
3 src Jimmy Carter · Clement Zablocki · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1977-07-01 | Exxon Internal Climate Research Program Confirms Human-Caused Global Warming
3 src ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 1976-09-14 | National Emergencies Act: Congress Attempts to Catalogue and Constrain 470 Executive Emergency Powers
3 src Frank Church · Gerald Ford · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford EO 11905: Executive-Self-Regulation of Intelligence Establishes Assassination Ban Without Statute
3 src Gerald Ford · George H.W. Bush · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Intelligence Community |
| confirmed |
| 1976-01-01 | Tobacco Industry 'Operation Berkshire' and global coordination to resist smoking regulation
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-22 | Church Committee: Landmark Democratic Resistance Framework Against Intelligence Abuses
3 src Frank Church · U.S. Senate · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-12-30 | Hughes-Ryan Amendment: Congress Requires Presidential Findings for Covert Action, Ends Plausible-Deniability Era
3 src Gerald Ford · Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1974-07-12 | Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act: Congress Strips Nixon's Unilateral Authority to Withhold Appropriated Funds
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Sam Ervin · Edmund Muskie |
| confirmed |
| 1974-06-01 | Nixon Executive-Privilege Theory (1973-74) Establishes Doctrinal Infrastructure Cited by Every Subsequent Presidency
3 src Richard Nixon · Archibald Cox · Leon Jaworski · John Dean · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1973-11-07 | War Powers Resolution Enacted Over Nixon Veto: Congress Attempts to Reclaim Authority After Cambodia Bombing
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · Clement Zablocki |
| confirmed |
| 1973-07-16 | Butterfield Reveals White House Taping System: Nixon's Executive-Privilege Refusals Trigger Defining Separation-of-Powers Crisis
2 src Richard Nixon · Sam Ervin · Archibald Cox |
| confirmed |
| 1972-12-01 | Business Roundtable Established as CEO Coordination Body for Corporate Political Power
3 src John Connally · Arthur Burns · U.S. Treasury · Federal Reserve |
| confirmed |
| 1972-08-22 | Case-Zablocki Act: Congress Requires Reporting of Executive Agreements, Partial Reassertion of Senate Treaty Power
3 src Clement Zablocki · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1972-06-19 | Supreme Court Keith Decision Requires Warrants for Domestic Security Surveillance, Reserves Foreign Intelligence Question
3 src Lewis Powell · Department of Justice · John Mitchell |
| confirmed |
| 1971-08-15 | Nixon's New Economic Policy: Unilateral Price Controls, Gold-Window Closure, and 10% Import Surcharge Demonstrate Peak Imperial Presidency
3 src Richard Nixon · John Connally · Arthur Burns · Paul Volcker · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1971-06-30 | Supreme Court Rules 6-3 for Press Freedom in Pentagon Papers Case - Rejects Nixon Administration Prior Restraint Attempt
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · New York Times · Washington Post · Daniel Ellsberg · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1969-07-17 | Nixon Administration Articulates Comprehensive Executive-Supremacy Doctrine: Impoundment, Secret Bombing, Pocket Vetoes, Surveillance
3 src Richard Nixon · John Mitchell · Henry Kissinger · William Rehnquist · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1969-03-18 | Nixon and Kissinger Launch Secret Illegal Bombing Campaign Against Cambodia - Operation Menu Kills 150,000-500,000 Civilians
3 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1965-03-01 | McNamara and Johnson Administration Begin Systematic Deception About Vietnam War Progress Creating "Credibility Gap"
3 src Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1964-08-10 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Signed: LBJ Receives Advance Blank-Check War Authorization, Template for Post-9/11 AUMF
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1962-01-17 | Kennedy Executive Order 10988 Grants Federal Workers Collective Bargaining Rights
3 src John F. Kennedy · Federal employees |
| confirmed |
| 1952-06-02 | Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer: Supreme Court Strikes Steel Seizure; Jackson Concurrence Becomes Canonical Executive-Power Framework
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Harry S. Truman · Fred Vinson |
| confirmed |
| 1952-04-08 | Truman Issues Executive Order 10340 Seizing Nation's Steel Mills; Sets Up Steel Seizure Case
3 src Harry S. Truman · Philip Murray | | confirmed |
| 1951-12-06 | Truman Commissions Brownell Committee to Investigate AFSA Failure, Blueprint for NSA Created
3 src Harry S. Truman · Armed Forces Security Agency · National Security Council |
| confirmed |
| 1950-12-16 | Truman Proclaims National Emergency for Korean War: Declaration Remains Legally Operative for 26 Years
2 src Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson | | confirmed |
| 1950-06-27 | Truman Commits U.S. Forces to Korean War by Executive Action Alone, Establishing 'Police Action' Precedent
3 src Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson · Robert Taft · U.S. Congress · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1947-07-26 | National Security Act: Structural Transfer of Military-Intelligence Policy From Congressional to Executive Control
3 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1942-07-02 | FDR Proclamation 2561 Creates Military Tribunal for Nazi Saboteurs; Ex parte Quirin Becomes Cited Precedent for Post-9/11 Detention
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Supreme Court · Francis Biddle · J. Edgar Hoover |
| confirmed |
| 1942-02-19 | Executive Order 9066 as Executive-Power Template: FDR's Internment Authority Predicate for 2001 Detention Architecture
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Francis Biddle · Earl Warren |
| confirmed |
| 1942-02-19 | Executive Order 9066 Authorizes Japanese American Internment
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. War Department |
| confirmed |
| 1939-04-03 | Reorganization Act of 1939: FDR Creates Executive Office of the President, Permanent Staff Infrastructure of Modern Presidency
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |