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Events (839)
- Late January 2001: Islamic Militants Converge at Beirut Conference
- Late March 1989 and After: Defense Secretary Cheney Advocates Enforced Regime Change in Soviet Union
- Late 2005: Pentagon Refuses to Adopt Proposal Directing Military to Observe Geneva Convention Article
- Late September or Early October, 2003: Libby Tells Cheney that He Learned Identity of Plame Wilson from Him
- Late October 2001: White House Readies Military Commissions Order; Commissions Will Usurp Power from Legislative, Judicial Branches into Executive
- Late November 2001: CIA Advises Bush and Cheney That Allies Won’t Help Trap Bin Laden, but No Action Is Taken
- Late November, 1976: Team B Breaches Security to Successfully Whip up Fears of Soviet Threat
- Late December 2000: Sexual Liaisons Cost Wolfowitz Post as Director of CIA
- Late December 2000 and Early January 2001: Bush Transition Teams Install Neoconservatives in Key Offices
- Late December 2001: US Decides to Accept Iran’s Help against Al-Qaeda but Offer Nothing in Return
- Late 1990: Defense Secretary Cheney Helps Plan Iraq Invasion
- Mid-January, 2001: Hastert Gives Cheney Office Space on Capitol Hill; Move Designed to Make Congress More Subservient to White House
- Mid-2001 - Early 2002: Cheney Agitates for Water Release that Leads to Massive Fish Kill
- Mid-February, 2001: National Mining Association Succeeds in Keeping EPA out of Greenhouse Gas Regulations
- Mid-February, 2001: Exxon, Enron Executives Meet with Cheney Energy Task Force
- Mid-2006: Former Justice Official Blames Cheney for Abrogating Congressional Powers
- Mid-2006: CIA Suffered Long-Lasting Damage from Depredations by Bush Administration, Say Former CIA Officials
- Mid-2006: ’Army Is Broken,’ Says General
- Mid-August, 1990: Cheney, Powell Clash over Proposal to Scrap Army’s Tactical Nukes
- Mid-October, 1986: Reagan Staffer Abrams and CIA Officials Lie to Congress about Administration Involvement with Contras
- Mid-1990: US Intelligence Community Predicts Iraq Will Not Invade Kuwait
- Late September 2002: Top Republican In House Finds Cheney’s WMD Briefing Unconvincing
- Spring 2006: Liz Cheney Pushes for War with Iran from Senior State Department Post
- April 2002 and After: Cabinet-Level Bush Officials Frequently Discuss and Approve Specific ‘Harsh’ Interrogation Techniques
- Summer 2001: White House Refusal to Comply with GAO Request Centered in Establishing Principle of Secrecy in White House Communications
- Summer 2003: CIA Officials Obtain Permission from Rice to Use Harsh Interrogation Tactics on New Detainee
- Summer 2004: Bush Foreign Policy Dominated by Small Core of Insular, Ill-Informed Advisers
- Summer 2005: Rumsfeld Warns Pentagon Officials Away from Proposed Detainee Treatment Act; Says Issue Belongs to Cheney
- Summer 1975: Ford Angers Conservatives by Refusing to Meet with Soviet Dissident
- Late 2006: US Policy Shift in Iraq Aimed at Rolling Back Growing Iranian Influence
- Late November 2006: Cheney Flies to Saudi Arabia to Meet with King Abdullah and Prince Bandar
- (2005-2006): Cheney Accused of Stalling Investigation of White House’s Use of Intelligence before Iraq War
- Autumn 1999: Cheney Gives Speech at Institute of Petroleum
- February 2003: Scientist Says Congress Terminated TIA but Kept Massive US Data Mining Alive
- 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
- 2006: Telecommunications Committee Facilitates NSA’s Domestic Wiretapping Program
- Late 2003-2005: Some at Justice Department Oppose Bush Administration Civil Liberties Policies
- 1989: Cheney Advocates Predominant Executive Power for Foreign Policy
- Early 2005: Legal Specialist Finds Bush Issued over 500 ‘Signing Statements’ in First Term
- Early September, 2001: Congressional Document Request Causes Dilemma for White House
- 2003: Cheney’s Office Refuses to Comply with Executive Orders; Says Vice President Not Part of Executive Branch
- Late July, 2007: Cheney Still Says Office of Vice President Not Strictly Part of Executive Branch
- Late January, 2001: Bush Says He Knows Difference between Executive, Legislative Branches
- Spring 2001: New Bush Administration Policy Allows NSA to Illegally Spy on US Citizens
- Mid-December 2003: Newsweek Finds Link between Iraqi National Congress and Cheney
- Mid-September, 2001: Cheney and Rumsfeld Create ‘Cabal’ to Influence Foreign Policy
- Early October 2002: Bush Receives Intelligence Memo Noting Dissents About Iraqi Aluminum Tubes
- January 2003: Bush Receives Intelligence Memo Saying Iraq ‘Unlikely’ to Attack US Unless Provoked
- August 1992: Defense Secretary Cheney Publicly Defends Decision Not to Overthrow Hussein, Privately Disagrees