| 2017-12-14 | FCC Under Ajit Pai Repeals Net Neutrality in 3-2 Party-Line Vote Ajit Pai · Donald Trump · Verizon Communications · Mignon Clyburn · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-09-13 | Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Requested Military Jet for European Honeymoon, Request Denied After Scrutiny Steve Mnuchin · Louise Linton |
| confirmed |
| 2017-08-21 | Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Uses Military Jet for Solar Eclipse Viewing Trip to Kentucky Steve Mnuchin · Louise Linton · Mitch McConnell |
| confirmed |
| 2017-07-21 | Mark Esper, Former Raytheon Weapons Lobbyist, Becomes Army Secretary in Revolving Door Appointment Mark Esper · Raytheon · Donald Trump · Elizabeth Warren |
| confirmed |
| 2017-06-16 | Anduril Industries Founded by Palmer Luckey and Former Palantir Executives Palmer Luckey · Peter Thiel · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-06-01 | Anduril Industries Founded by Palantir Alumni with Thiel Backing, Building Autonomous Weapons Layer Palmer Luckey · Trae Stephens · Brian Schimpf · Matt Grimm · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-04-19 | Fox News Fires Bill O'Reilly After $13 Million Sexual Harassment Settlements - Trump Had Defended Him Bill O'Reilly · Donald Trump · Rupert Murdoch · James Murdoch · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-04-06 | Trump Orders Syria Missile Strike from Mar-a-Lago During State Dinner with Xi Jinping - Military Action as Mar-a-Lago Spectacle Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · Bashar al-Assad · Rex Tillerson · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-28 | Trump Exploits Navy SEAL Ryan Owens' Widow at Congress Address to Deflect From Botched Yemen Raid He Approved Donald Trump · Carryn Owens · William Owens · Ryan Owens · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-01-29 | Trump Approves Botched Yemen Raid Killing Navy SEAL Owens and 23+ Civilians Including 8-Year-Old American Girl Donald Trump · William Owens · Nawar al-Awlaki · Carryn Owens |
| confirmed |
| 2016-12-08 | Former Air Force Chief of Staff Mark Welsh Joins Northrop Grumman Board After B-21 Bomber Contract Award Mark Welsh · Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Wes Bush · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-10-08 | Saudi Coalition Uses US-Made Bombs to Kill 155 at Yemen Funeral Hall in Sanaa Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-20 | CEO Stumpf Testifies Before Senate, Elizabeth Warren Demands Resignation John Stumpf · Elizabeth Warren · U.S. Senate Banking Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-16 | Oliver Stone's "Snowden" Film Brings NSA Whistleblower Story to Mainstream Audiences Oliver Stone · Joseph Gordon-Levitt · Edward Snowden |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-10 | Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 31 Civilians at Yemen Water Drilling Site in Apparent War Crime Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Human Rights Watch |
| confirmed |
| 2016-09-01 | Apollo Global Management Acquires Constellis Holdings (Blackwater Successor) for Approximately $1 Billion Constellis Holdings · Apollo Global Management · Blackwater · Triple Canopy |
| confirmed |
| 2016-08-15 | Raytheon Paveway Bomb Strikes MSF Hospital in Yemen, Killing 11 Including Healthcare Workers Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Doctors Without Borders · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-28 | DaVita Pays $450 Million for Drug Wastage Fraud, Largest Unjoined Whistleblower Settlement in History DaVita · Kent Thiry · Alon J. Vainer · Daniel D. Barbir · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-27 | Northrop Grumman Wins $80 Billion B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber Contract Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Boeing · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-03 | U.S. Airstrike Destroys Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, Kills 42 Barack Obama · Doctors Without Borders · U.S. Air Force · Afghanistan |
| confirmed |
| 2015-06-18 | Northrop Grumman Pays $11.4 Million for Illegally Billing Executive Compensation to Federal Contracts Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · Defense Contract Management Agency · Defense Contract Audit Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2015-06-02 | Obama Signs USA FREEDOM Act, Ending NSA Bulk Metadata Collection Barack Obama · Mitch McConnell · Ron Wyden · Rand Paul · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-03-26 | Saudi Arabia Launches Yemen Intervention Armed with Billions in Raytheon Weapons, Beginning Eight-Year Atrocity Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-12-18 | Congress Appropriates $120 Million for Unwanted Abrams Tanks for Third Consecutive Year Despite Army Opposition General Dynamics · Mike Turner · Ray Odierno · Rob Portman · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-12-09 | Senate Intelligence Committee Releases Torture Report - CIA Program Was Brutal and Ineffective Dianne Feinstein · Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · Central Intelligence Agency · John Brennan · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-12-09 | Senate Report Documents CIA Torture Worse Than Disclosed - Rectal Feeding, Mock Executions, Deaths Central Intelligence Agency · Gul Rahman · Senate Select Committee on Intelligence · James Mitchell · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-08-16 | Gamergate Begins: 4chan Harassment Campaign Becomes Political Mobilization Blueprint Steve Bannon · Milo Yiannopoulos · Zoe Quinn |
| confirmed |
| 2014-07-01 | Academi (formerly Blackwater) Merges with Triple Canopy to Form Constellis Holdings, Third Corporate Rebranding Academi · Triple Canopy · Constellis Holdings · Blackwater |
| confirmed |
| 2014-06-19 | Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank: Supreme Court Restricts Software Patents, Reducing Patent Troll Leverage Over Abstract Business Methods U.S. Supreme Court · Clarence Thomas · Alice Corp · CLS Bank International · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2014-01-16 | NSA DISHFIRE Program Collects Nearly 200 Million Text Messages Daily Worldwide National Security Agency · GCHQ · Edward Snowden |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-21 | Chelsea Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for WikiLeaks Disclosures Chelsea Manning · U.S. Army · Department of Justice · Obama Administration |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-14 | U.S. Charges Edward Snowden with Espionage and Theft of Government Property Edward Snowden · Department of Justice · Eric Holder |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-06 | Washington Post and Guardian Reveal NSA PRISM Program for Direct Server Access Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Bart Gellman · National Security Agency · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-10-23 | John Kiriakou Pleads Guilty - Only Person Jailed Over CIA Torture Program John Kiriakou · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2010-03-17 | Obama Authorizes CIA Signature Strikes - Killing Based on Behavior Patterns, Not Identity Barack Obama · John Brennan · Central Intelligence Agency · Leon Panetta |
| confirmed |
| 2009-04-16 | Obama Releases CIA Torture Memos But Promises No Prosecutions for Torturers Barack Obama · Eric Holder · Central Intelligence Agency · John Yoo · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-08-18 | General Dynamics Pays $4 Million to Settle Fraud Charges for Defective Submarine and Aircraft Parts General Dynamics · Benton J. Campbell · Defense Criminal Investigative Service · U.S. Navy |
| confirmed |
| 2007-10-02 | Erik Prince Testifies Before Congress Defending Blackwater Despite Evidence of 195 Shooting Incidents Erik Prince · Blackwater · U.S. House Oversight Committee · Henry Waxman |
| confirmed |
| 2005-11-28 | Rep. Duke Cunningham Pleads Guilty to $2.4 Million Bribery Scheme Duke Cunningham · Mitchell Wade · Carol Lam · Donald Trump |
| 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 |
| 2003-10-01 | Christopher Poole Founds 4chan: Anonymous Imageboard Becomes Radicalization Infrastructure Christopher Poole |
| confirmed |
| 2003-06-06 | Oracle Launches Hostile Takeover Bid for PeopleSoft Worth $5.1 Billion Oracle · Larry Ellison · PeopleSoft · JD Edwards |
| 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 |
| 2003-02-01 | In-Q-Tel Invests in Keyhole's EarthViewer During Iraq War Buildup In-Q-Tel · Keyhole Inc. · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · CNN |
| confirmed |
| 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 |
| 2002-09-07 | WHIG Executes Coordinated Media Blitz Demonstrating Crisis Template Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · George W. Bush · Andrew H. Card Jr. · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-08-01 | DynCorp Bosnia Trafficking Scandal: Contractor Employees Purchase Women and Girls for Sexual Slavery, Face No Criminal Prosecution DynCorp International · Kathryn Bolkovac · United Nations |
| confirmed |
| 2001-01-01 | Purdue Pharma Bonus System Incentivizes Sales Reps to Target Highest Opioid Prescribers Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family |
| confirmed |
| 1999-02-12 | Senate Acquits President Clinton on Both Impeachment Articles Bill Clinton · U.S. Senate · Senate Republicans · Senate Democrats |
| confirmed |
| 1998-12-19 | House of Representatives Impeaches President Clinton on Perjury and Obstruction Charges Bill Clinton · House Republicans · Kenneth Starr |
| confirmed |
| 1998-05-01 | Sandline "Arms-to-Africa" Scandal: UK Parliamentary Inquiry Tests PMC Accountability and Finds It Wanting Tim Spicer · Sandline International · Robin Cook · Tony Blair · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1998-04-03 | American Petroleum Institute "Victory" Memo Outlines Climate Disinformation Strategy American Petroleum Institute · Randy Randol · ExxonMobil · Chevron · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1997-08-01 | Boeing-McDonnell Douglas Merger Approved: Defense Contractor Consolidation Creates Oligopoly Boeing · McDonnell Douglas · Federal Trade Commission · U.S. Department of Defense · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1996-08-22 | Welfare Reform Imposes Five-Year Lifetime Limit on Cash Assistance Bill Clinton · Republican Congress · Poor Families |
| confirmed |
| 1994-10-01 | Operation Gatekeeper Launches Clinton Border Militarization, Funneling Migrants to Deadly Terrain Bill Clinton · Janet Reno · Doris Meissner · Immigration and Naturalization Service · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1992-12-24 | Bush Pardons Six Iran-Contra Officials on Christmas Eve, Completing Cover-Up George H.W. Bush · Caspar Weinberger · Robert McFarlane · Elliott Abrams · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1991-06-05 | Trump Plaza Fined $200,000 for Removing Black Employees from Gaming Floor Donald Trump · Robert LiButti · Kip Brown |
| confirmed |
| 1990-02-16 | Reagan Testifies "I Don't Recall" Repeatedly in Iran-Contra Deposition Ronald Reagan · John Poindexter |
| confirmed |
| 1989-12-20 | U.S. Invades Panama to Capture Former CIA Asset Manuel Noriega George H.W. Bush · Manuel Noriega |
| confirmed |
| 1989-05-04 | Oliver North Convicted of Iran-Contra Felonies, Later Overturned on Immunity Oliver North · Gerhard Gesell · Lawrence Walsh |
| confirmed |
| 1989-01-01 | Executive Outcomes Founded in South Africa: First Modern Private Military Company Conducts Combat Operations Eeben Barlow · Executive Outcomes · Tony Buckingham · Simon Mann · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1987-05-06 | CIA Director William Casey Dies Before Testifying on Iran-Contra Role William Casey · Ronald Reagan · Richard Secord |
| confirmed |
| 1987-02-26 | Tower Commission Report Released, Criticized as Whitewash of Iran-Contra Ronald Reagan · John Tower · Edmund Muskie · Brent Scowcroft · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1986-10-27 | Anti-Drug Abuse Act Establishes 100-to-1 Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1985-12-04 | NSC Running Shadow Foreign Policy Through McFarlane and Poindexter Robert McFarlane · John Poindexter · Oliver North · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1985-08-20 | First Secret Arms Shipment to Iran Initiates Iran-Contra Scandal Ronald Reagan · Robert McFarlane · Oliver North · Manucher Ghorbanifar |
| confirmed |
| 1983-12-20 | Donald Rumsfeld Meets Saddam Hussein as Reagan Special Envoy to Iraq Donald Rumsfeld · Saddam Hussein · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1982-01-01 | Reagan Deficit Explosion: National Debt Triples From $1T to $3T in Eight Years Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Office of Management and Budget · Department of the Treasury |
| confirmed |
| 1981-08-13 | Reagan Signs ERTA: Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthy Begin Inequality Explosion Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Jack Kemp · William Roth |
| confirmed |
| 1981-05-01 | Council for National Policy Founded - Secret Conservative Coordination Network Tim LaHaye · Paul Weyrich · Nelson Bunker Hunt · Howard Phillips · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1981-04-13 | Reagan Appoints William Baxter as Antitrust Chief, Enforcement Collapses as Chicago School Takes Control Ronald Reagan · William F. Baxter · Department of Justice · Stanford Law School · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1980-03-24 | U.S. Backs El Salvador Death Squad Government Through 12-Year Civil War Ronald Reagan · Roberto D'Aubuisson · Oscar Romero |
| confirmed |
| 1979-06-01 | Moral Majority Founded - Corporate Agenda Masked by Religious Cultural Warfare Paul Weyrich · Jerry Falwell · Richard Viguerie · Howard Phillips · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Budget Surges to $10 Million - Think Tank Infrastructure Expansion American Enterprise Institute · William Baroody Sr. · Gerald Ford · Howard Pew Freedom Trust · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1976-09-30 | Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Requires Pre-Merger Notification, Last Major Antitrust Strengthening Before Reagan Dismantlement Gerald Ford · Senator Philip Hart · Senator Hugh Scott · Representative Peter Rodino · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-06-21 | Chuck Colson Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice in Ellsberg Case, Serves Seven Months Chuck Colson · Daniel Ellsberg · E. Howard Hunt · John Ehrlichman | | confirmed |
| 1972-11-01 | Eagle Forum Founded as Permanent Conservative Infrastructure for 'Pro-Family' Organizing Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum · New Right | | confirmed |
| 1971-06-13 | Pentagon Papers Published Revealing Systematic Government Deception About Vietnam War Daniel Ellsberg · New York Times · Washington Post · President Richard Nixon · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1971-03-29 | William Calley Convicted of My Lai Murders - Only Officer Prosecuted Despite Widespread Command Responsibility - Serves 3.5 Years House Arrest Lieutenant William Calley · President Richard Nixon · Secretary of the Army Howard Callaway · Lieutenant General William Peers | | confirmed |
| 1970-09-13 | Milton Friedman's 'The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits' Establishes Shareholder Primacy Doctrine Milton Friedman · Chicago School economists |
| confirmed |
| 1969-12-01 | Draft Lottery Reform Attempts to Address Class Inequality After College Deferments Shield Wealthy from Vietnam Service Selective Service System · U.S. Congress · Congressman Alexander Pirnie | | confirmed |
| 1969-11-12 | Seymour Hersh Exposes My Lai Massacre Cover-Up After Army Conceals Atrocity for 20 Months - Wins Pulitzer Prize Journalist Seymour Hersh · Whistleblower Ronald Ridenhour · Lieutenant William Calley · U.S. Army · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1969-03-18 | Nixon and Kissinger Launch Secret Illegal Bombing Campaign Against Cambodia - Operation Menu Kills 150,000-500,000 Civilians President Richard Nixon · National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger · Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird · Secretary of State William Rogers · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1968-03-16 | My Lai Massacre - U.S. Soldiers Murder Between 347 and 504 Unarmed Vietnamese Civilians in War Crime Lieutenant William Calley · Captain Ernest Medina · Charlie Company 1st Battalion 20th Infantry Regiment · Hugh Thompson Jr. (helicopter pilot who intervened) · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1967-08-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Launches Monthly Newsletter, Building Conservative Communications Network Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum · National Federation of Republican Women | | confirmed |
| 1967-07-28 | Reagan Signs Mulford Act Gun Control Law With NRA Support to Disarm Black Panthers Armed Patrols Governor Ronald Reagan · Don Mulford · National Rifle Association · Black Panther Party · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1967-01-01 | Vietnam War Defense Contractor Profiteering Reaches Peak as Congressional Investigations Expose Waste and Corruption RMK-BRJ consortium · Halliburton · Lockheed · Boeing · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1966-10-15 | Black Panther Party Formation in Oakland Triggers Immediate FBI COINTELPRO Surveillance and State Repression Bobby Seale · Huey P. Newton · FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover · California State Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1966-06-13 | Miranda v. Arizona Decision Requiring Rights Warnings Sparks Law Enforcement Backlash and Conservative Law-and-Order Politics U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Earl Warren · Richard Nixon · Law enforcement organizations |
| confirmed |
| 1965-01-01 | Bell Helicopter Profits Surge from $150 Million to $2 Billion During Vietnam War - Huey Production Defines "Helicopter War" Bell Helicopter · U.S. Department of Defense · Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association |
| confirmed |
| 1964-08-07 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passes Based on Fabricated Second Attack Authorizing Vietnam War Escalation President Lyndon B. Johnson · Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · National Security Agency · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1962-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Establishes Defense Committee and Hires First Full-Time President National Association of Manufacturers · Werner P. Gullander · National Defense Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1961-01-17 | President Eisenhower's Farewell Address Warns Against Military-Industrial Complex Dwight D. Eisenhower · Malcolm Moos · Ralph Williams · Milton Eisenhower | | confirmed |
| 1960-01-18 | Congressional Report Finds 1,400 Retired Military Officers Employed by Top Defense Contractors F. Edward Hebert · House Armed Services Committee · General Dynamics · Frank Pace |
| confirmed |
| 1959-01-01 | Congress Holds 25 Hearings on Pentagon Revolving Door, General Bradley Testifies Against Contractor Influence U.S. Congress · General Omar Bradley · U.S. Department of Defense · Defense contractors |
| confirmed |
| 1954-06-09 | Joseph Welch Confronts McCarthy with Have You No Sense of Decency in Army Hearings Joseph Welch · Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · G. David Schine | | confirmed |
| 1953-10-30 | Eisenhower Approves New Look Defense Policy - Cuts Military Budget by One-Third Despite Pentagon Resistance Dwight D. Eisenhower · John Foster Dulles · Robert B. Carney · Matthew B. Ridgway · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1953-01-28 | Charles Wilson Confirmed Defense Secretary After "Good for General Motors" Controversy Reveals Corporate-State Fusion Charles Erwin Wilson · Dwight D. Eisenhower · General Motors · Senate Armed Services Committee · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1951-08-01 | Electric Boat Awarded Contract for First Nuclear Submarine USS Nautilus, Launching General Dynamics Electric Boat · General Dynamics Corporation · John Jay Hopkins · U.S. Navy · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1950-09-08 | Defense Production Act Institutionalizes Korean War Industrial Mobilization, Defense Budget Quadruples to $50 Billion Harry Truman · Office of Defense Mobilization · Boeing · Lockheed · +2 |
| confirmed |