2002
75 verified events recorded in 2002.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 2002-08-15 | WHIG Establishes Network Executive Coordination Protocols for Iraq Campaign White House Iraq Group · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · network executives · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-02 | Poindexter Announces DARPA Total Information Awareness Program John Poindexter · DARPA · Information Awareness Office · George W. Bush administration | 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 | DynCorp Bosnia Trafficking Scandal: Contractor Employees Purchase Women and Girls for Sexual Slavery, Face No Criminal Prosecution DynCorp International · Kathryn Bolkovac · United Nations | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-01 | White House Iraq Group Formed to Coordinate WMD Propaganda Campaign Andrew Card · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · Stephen Hadley · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2002-07-31 | Entergy Purchases Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant for $180 Million, Memorandum of Understanding Creates Decade of Regulatory Conflict Entergy Corporation · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation · Vermont Public Service Board · Vermont Department of Public Service · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-07-30 | Sarbanes-Oxley Act Signed Into Law as Brief Reform Moment George W. Bush · Paul Sarbanes · Michael Oxley | 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 | |
| 2002-07-21 | WorldCom Files for Bankruptcy with $107 Billion in Assets Bernard Ebbers · WorldCom · Scott Sullivan | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-27 | Zelman v. Simmons-Harris - Supreme Court Upholds School Vouchers for Religious Schools Chief Justice William Rehnquist · Justice Sandra Day O'Connor · Justice Clarence Thomas · Institute for Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-25 | WorldCom Announces $3.8 Billion Accounting Fraud Discovery Bernard Ebbers · Cynthia Cooper · Scott Sullivan · WorldCom | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-24 | Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci Convicted in Operation Plunder Dome Corruption Trial, Sentenced to Five Years for Racketeering Conspiracy Vincent "Buddy" Cianci Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Attorney's Office (Maryland) · U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-06-15 | Arthur Andersen Convicted, Destroying 85,000 Jobs Worldwide Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2002-05-17 | Bush Administration Redefines Mining Waste as Fill Material to Enable Mountaintop Removal George W. Bush · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · Coal Industry | confirmed | |
| 2002-04-01 | United States Incarceration Reaches 2 Million: Highest Imprisonment Rate in World History Bureau of Justice Statistics | confirmed | |
| 2002-03-14 | Arthur Andersen Indicted for Obstruction of Justice in Enron Scandal Arthur Andersen · Department of Justice · Michael Chertoff | 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 | |
| 2002-02-12 | Tigua Casino Closes After Abramoff Double-Dealing Scheme Success 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 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 Arthur Andersen · Joseph Berardino · David Duncan | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-08 | No Child Left Behind Act Creates Testing-Industrial Complex and Punitive Accountability Regime President George W. Bush · Senator Ted Kennedy · Representative John Boehner · Pearson Education · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-01 | Abramoff-Reed Execute Double-Dealing Scheme Against Tigua Tribe Jack Abramoff · Ralph Reed · Century Strategies · Tigua Tribal Nation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-01 | ALEC Adopts Living Wage Mandate Preemption Act to Block Local Minimum Wage Increases American Legislative Exchange Council · National Restaurant Association · McDonald's · Walmart · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-01 | ALEC's Corporate 'Scholarship' Program Funds Legislator Trips to Luxury Resort Conferences American Legislative Exchange Council · PhRMA · Eli Lilly · Time Warner Cable · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-01 | Insulin Prices Begin Tripling 2002-2013 as Three Manufacturers Control 99% of Market - From $231 to $762 Annually Eli Lilly · Novo Nordisk · Sanofi · Congressional Diabetes Caucus · +1 | confirmed |