John Dean

Events (144)

• March 18, 2003: Bush Sends Formal Determination of Iraqi WMDs to Congress, but Determination Is Later Criticized as Inadequate 2003-03-18
• July 6, 2003: Wilson Op-Ed Charges Bush Administration with Deliberately Lying about Iraqi Attempts to Procure African Uranium 2003-07-06
• February 1, 2004: Republican Leadership Transforming House of Representatives into ‘Dictatorship,’ Investigator Claims 2004-02-01
• February 5, 2004: Gore: Bush Manipulated Fears of 9/11 to Conflate Iraq and al-Qaeda 2004-02-05
• April 27, 2004: Supreme Court Hears Arguments for and against Keeping Cheney Energy Task Force Records Sealed 2004-04-27
• May 12, 2004: Dean: Wilson’s Book Details ‘Vicious Hatchet Job’ against Him, Wife 2004-05-12
• June 24, 2004: Supreme Court Sends Cheney Energy Task Force Case Back to Appeals Court 2004-06-24
• July 26, 2004: Threat to Suspend Elections Has No Basis in Law, Former White House Counsel Writes 2004-07-26
• September 15, 2004: CIA Is Given Court Order to Preserve All Records about Treatment of Detainees 2004-09-15
• May 31, 2005: Felt Revealed as ‘Deep Throat’ 2005-05-31
• October 31, 2005 - February 1, 2006: Alito Becomes Supreme Court Justice; Swings Balance of Court to Right 2005-10-31
• December 20, 2005: Cheney Evokes Iran-Contra to Frame Views of Presidential Powers 2005-12-20
• January 13, 2006: Bush Using Signing Statements to ‘Nullify’ Laws, Says Dean 2006-01-13
• March 12, 2006 and After: Democratic Senator Says He Wants to Censure President over Domestic Surveillance Program, Motion Thwarted by Republican and Democratic Leadership 2006-03-12
• March 31, 2006: Nixon Lawyer Says Warrantless Wiretapping Program Worse than Watergate 2006-03-31
• September 22, 2006: Dean: Military Commissions Act Befits ‘Totalitarian State’ More than a Democracy 2006-09-22
• October 17, 2006: Military Commission Act Becomes Law; Authorizes Torture, Restricts Fundamental Legal Rights 2006-10-17
• August 10, 2007: Dean: Protect America Act a Presidential Power Grab 2007-08-10
• March 2, 2009: Bush Became ‘Close to Unconstitutional Dictator,’ Says Former White House Counsel 2009-03-02
• March 12, 2009: ’Executive Assassination Wing’ Potentially a ‘War Crime,’ Says Former Nixon Lawyer 2009-03-12
• April 30, 2009: Former White House Counsel: Rice May Have Admitted to Criminal Conspiracy over Bush Torture Policies 2009-04-30
• Early February 1973: White House Aides Decide to Pretend to Cooperate with Upcoming Senate Investigation, but Actually Obstruct Probe
• February 1978: Haldeman’s New Book Says CIA, Democrats Involved in Watergate; Blames Nixon, Colson for Conspiracy
• April 2004: Wilson’s Book Stirs Controversy, Provokes Death Threats towards Family
• May 1991:Silent CoupPublished, Immediately Discredited
• June 19 or 20, 1972: Dean Informs Attorney General Kleindienst of Connection between Watergate Burglary and White House; Kleindienst Conceals Knowledge
• July 2006: Nixon Honored Rule of Law by Resigning, Dean Writes, but Bush and Cheney Would Not
• July, 1997:Silent CoupPublishers Settle Dean Lawsuit for Undisclosed Amount
• September 2007: Former White House Lawyer and Law Professor Say Bush Abuses Presidential Signing Statements
• October 2005: Law Professor, Author Debunk ‘Ticking Bomb’ Scenario Used to Justify Torture
• October 1974: Watergate Burglar Says He Never Asked for ‘Hush Money,’ but Simply What Any Clandestine Intelligence Operative Would Expect
• November 1991: Columbia Journalism Review Presents Contradictory Views ofSilent Coup
• December 1998 - Fall 1999: ’Vulcans’ Tutor Bush on Foreign Affairs
• Fall 1971: Nixon Aides Develop ‘Operation Sandwedge’
• Late Fall, 1976: Frost Researchers Find Damning Transcripts of Nixon-Colson Conversations
• Late Fall, 1976: Frost Researchers Procure Documents Indicating Government’s Line of Inquiry in Prospective Nixon Prosecution
• Mid-February, 1973: ’Deep Throat’ Says Nixon Administration Unable to Prevent ‘Real Story’ of Watergate from Coming Out
• Late March, 1973: FBI Director Gray Gagged by Attorney General
• Late December 1972: FBI Director Burns Incriminating Nixon Administration Documents
• Mid-January, 1973: Reporter Learns of Fundamental Investigative Failures of FBI
• 1989: Cheney Advocates Predominant Executive Power for Foreign Policy
• 1986: Leaker Prosecuted for Espionage
• Early August, 2004: Carnegie Think Tank Critically Examines Bush Administration’s Case for Iraqi WMDs
• December 1990: Cheney Tells Congress the President Does Not Need Its Approval to Go to War