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Events (91)

• April 16, 2006: Cheney’s Staff Powerful, Secretive, and Highly Influential, Reporter Finds 2006-04-16
• June 8, 2006: National Archives Asks Cheney to Comply with Disclosure Order 2006-06-08
• June 16, 2006: Powell’s Former Chief of Staff: Cheney Runs US Foreign Policy; Former White House Staffer: Bush’s Staff ‘Terrified of Cheney’s People’ 2006-06-16
• August 23, 2006: National Archives Makes Second Request for Cheney to Obey Law 2006-08-23
• January 30, 2007: Addington: Libby Told Him ‘I Didn’t Do It’ 2007-01-30
• 9:00 a.m. February 20, 2007: Prosecution Closes; Says Case Proved Libby Lied to Grand Jury, FBI 2007-02-20
• April 27, 2007: Goldsmith Subpoenaed in New York Times Wiretapping Leak Case 2007-04-27
• May 29, 2007-June 7, 2007: National Archives Agency Head: Addington Tried to Abolish His Office in Retaliation 2007-05-29
• June 25, 2007: Kerry Slams Cheney’s Assertion that the Vice President is Not Part of Executive Branch 2007-06-25
• June 26, 2007: Cheney’s Assertion that Vice President Is Neither Executive Nor Legislative a Constitutional Crisis, Civil Libertarian Writes 2007-06-26
• June 26, 2007: Addington Tacitly Admits that Cheney’s Office Is Part of Executive Branch 2007-06-26
• June 27, 2007: Democrats Move to Strip Cheney of Executive Branch Funding over Classification Row 2007-06-27
• July 24, 2007: Gonzales Contradicts Comey’s Testimony about Pressuring Ashcroft to Reauthorize NSA Wiretapping Program 2007-07-24
• December 27, 2007: Archives Agency Head Says He Is Resigning Partly because of Battles with Cheney’s Office 2007-12-27
• June 26, 2008: Addington, Yoo Spar with Congressional Questioners, Give Few Solid Answers 2008-06-26
• September 18, 2008: Civil Liberties Organization Sues NSA, Bush Officials over Warrantless Wiretapping 2008-09-18
• February 22, 2009: Justice Department Investigation Finds OLC Opinions Unacceptably Deficient 2009-02-22
• March 28, 2009: Spanish Court Considers War Crimes Prosecution of Former Bush Officials 2009-03-28
• January 23-Late January, 2003: Navy General Counsel Shocked at Justice Department Torture Memo
• March 2002: Cheney’s Office Refuses to Disclose Travel Expenditures
• March 7 - Mid-April, 2003: Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Tortured in Poland
• March 1992: Cheney’s Deputy Orders Military Attorneys to Submit to White House Control
• April 2002 and After: President Bush Deliberately Shielded from Knowledge of Harsh Interrogation Techniques
• (2003-2004): Three White House Officials Asked about Destruction of CIA Interrogation Tapes, Response Unclear
• May 16 - 17, 2001: Cheney’s Lawyer Tells GAO It Has No Authority to Investigate Energy Task Force
• June 2003: White House Counsel Gonzales Continues to Stonewall Commission over White House Access
• Late June 2007: Bush Exempts Vice President from Disclosure Requirement
• June 1991-March 1992: Cheney Attempts to Place JAG Corps under Political Control
• July 2002: Complaints over Torture Results in Memo Granting Retroactive Legal ‘Immunity’
• September 2003: Libby to Addington: ‘I Didn’t Do It’
• Mid-March through Early April, 1987: Iran-Contra Committee Wrestles over Logistics
• Fall 2002: Justice Department Lawyers Lose Argument over Indefinite Detentions to Cheney’s Counsel
• Fall 2002 and After: Vice President Cheney’s Power Peaks as He Uses Bureaucratic Strategies to Manage Foreign Policy Himself
• Late 2005: Pentagon Refuses to Adopt Proposal Directing Military to Observe Geneva Convention Article
• Late October 2001: White House Readies Military Commissions Order; Commissions Will Usurp Power from Legislative, Judicial Branches into Executive
• Mid-August, 1990: Cheney, Powell Clash over Proposal to Scrap Army’s Tactical Nukes
• Summer 2001: White House Refusal to Comply with GAO Request Centered in Establishing Principle of Secrecy in White House Communications
• December 2003-June 2004: OLC Head Goldsmith Withdraws Torture Memos
• January-June 2004: OLC Head Goldsmith Battles Cheney Aide Over Detention of Terror Suspects
• February 2004: Contempt for FISA in White House Astonishes OLC Head Goldsmith
• Early 2005: Legal Specialist Finds Bush Issued over 500 ‘Signing Statements’ in First Term