Not long ago, another diarist came up with 67 scandals connected to the Bush Administration.
I came up with at least that many MORE, in addition to his list.
I went through his list and mine, and put them in roughly chronological order.
I have NO DOUBT that even what I present here isn't comprehensive.
Outrages, Scandals and Crimes: A LIST
- Bush's Nat. Guard AWOL
- Halliburton (Cheney CEO @ time) & Iran Dealings
- 2000 Election Fraud (FL & other states)
- Cheney's Energy Task Force secretly dividing up Iraqi oil fields in March 2001
- Colin Powell’s delivery of $40 million dollars to the Taliban in April 2001
- Establishing an office in the Executive Branch to promote religious practices, in violation of the constitution
- Promoting Abstinence Education at Loss of Contraceptive/Safe Sex Education
- Breaking Kyoto Protocol Treaty
- Breaking ABM Treaty
- Using aggressive spy plane operations, including live targeting of Chinese information networks to provoke a confrontation with China for the purpose of marketing a national missile defense that doesn't work
- Pulling the plug on the Korean Reunification talks and pushing NK into becoming a nuclear power, also for the purpose of marketing a national missile defense that doesn’t work
- The hundred-billion-dollar expenditure for a "national missile defense" that can be defeated with reflective paint on enemy missiles
- Enron and the deliberate bankrupting of California
- Rice places counterrorism efforts on hold "for a review."
- August 2001 Presidential Memo, c/o Condi Rice: "bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S."
- Maintaining, for EIGHT MONTHS, that 9/11 was a complete surprise
- Using 9/11 to push "The Patriot Act"
- Anthrax attacks - No Arrests/New Information 5 years later
- Bin Laden still free, more than 5 years later
- Torture World Wide Via Extraordinary Rendition
- Illegal wiretapping
- Geneva Convention’s provisions for Prisoner Treatment Labeled "quaint"
- Ordering legal policies for circumvention of the Geneva Conventions
- Erasing Journalists’ Footage of Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
- Shutting down all legitimate oversight functions of Congress by arbitrarily designating EIGHT members of Congress with national security clearance
- No-Bid Contracts (Afghanistan, Iraq, Katrina, next?)
- Reclassifying information long held in the public domain
- The continuing yearly BRIBES by Halliburton to Dick Cheney for no-bid contracts
- The 140k paid to MZM by Dick Cheney, which was then paid to Duke Cunningham as a bribe
- Adopting a policy to refuse to honor FOIA requests, in violation of federal law
- Using "terror alerts" to manipulate the news media and the public
- Promoting a program to deputize any paranoid in the country to denounce his neighbors as terrorist sympathizers
- Using the establishment of the Dept of Homeland Security to undermine labor laws and the civil service
- Plotting to overthrow the government of Venezuela
- Carrying on an undeclared war against Iraq with misappropriated funds BEFORE any authorization from Congress, while claiming to be seeking diplomatic resolution of a crisis that didn't exist
- Falsification of Iraq WMD Claims
- NH Phone Jamming
- Sibel Edmonds/Ashcroft FBI Translation Slow Downs
- Bush Allows FBI to Confiscate Records of Business' Customers Without Being Allowed to Notify the Customers
- Niger Forgeries
- Leaking false information to the news media to defraud Congress, allies, and the American people with regard to pretexts for war
- Firing a career general for telling the truth about the cost of the war
- Sending Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz to LIE to Congress about the cost of the war and reconstruction
- Violation of the AUMF and UN Resolution 1441 by invading Iraq without meeting conditions
- Making false declarations in a letter to Congress declaring war
- Adopting pre-emptive warfare doctrine as United States policy, when that doctrine is prohibited by a ratified treaty (The UN Charter), and the last government that adopted that policy (Nazi Germany) had it's leadership EXECUTED after being convicted of using that policy, named "The Crime Against Peace," or alternatively, "the mother of all war crimes."
- Establishing a network of secret prisons, in violation of international law
- Illegal detentions
- Ghosting prisoners
- Inviting U.S. Journalists to "Embed" with Military Units but Requiring Them to Submit Their Stories to the Military for Pre-publication Review
- Using depleted uranium as a weapon of war
- Mission Accomplished Carrier Production
- Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson Retribution
- Looting the Iraqi National Museum for war spoils
- Publicly entreating the nation to PRAY for the success of a war motivated by profit and imperial ambitions, known to Christians as BLASPHEMY
- Immunizing Cheney, Rove, Libby, Armitage and Hadley from prosecution for outing a spy by declassifying her identity
- Paid Writers to Peddle Admin. Programs without Divulging Connection
- Jeff Gannon Journalist Mole/Closet-Gay Playmate
- Medicare Bogus "Video News" Release
- Monitoring Higher Education Courses & Teachings Via "International Studies in Higher Education Act of 2003"
- Ashcroft Spying on Peace Groups, et al
- Patriot Act II
- Ground Zero's Unsafe Air
- Banning Photographers on U.S. Military Bases From covering the Arrival of Caskets Containing the Remains Of U.S. Soldiers Killed Overseas
- Flooding Iraq with cell phones after the invasion, and tasking NSA with tracking communications in Iraq, thus distracting them from meaningful counterterrorism efforts
- Paying Iraqi Journalists to Write Positive Accounts of the U.S. War Effort
- Arresting individuals at public, tax payer-funded events for exercising their first amendment rights with bumper stickers on their cars supporting the political opposition, OUTSIDE of the event, parked in the parking lot
- U.S. Muslim Chaplain James Yee Falsely Accused of Aiding the Terrorists
- Ten billion dollars missing in a war zone
- Overcharging and fraud by government contractors in Iraq
- Placing inexperienced "Bush loyalists" right out of college in charge of Iraq reconstruction
- No Child Left Behind Underfunding
- Contracting corporations to use FOREIGN SLAVE LABOR for Iraq reconstruction, while keeping Iraqi unemployment at levels above 70%, and looting the US treasury to fill the pockets of contractors for substandard or nonexistent reconstruction projects
- Firing a public official for telling the truth about the cost of a "Medicaid reform" that funneled tens of millions of dollars to HMOs
- Secretly operating illegal domestic spying operations that had been proposed to, and rejected by, the Congress
- 50% of the public believed Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11, on election day, 2004
- Kidnapping of Haiti’s Democratically Elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- 2004 Election fraud (Ohio & other states)
- Gouging the American public at the gas pump: NO INVESTIGATION
- Halliburton Gas Price Gouging
- Reemergence of Nuclear Weapons Development
- STRATCOM plan to attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons
- Compounding the crime of adopting pre-emptive warfare doctrine by officially including the pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons as policy
- REFUSING to implement safeguards against terrorist attacks
- Stubbornly pursuing policies which INCREASE the threat of terrorism, while marketing the threat as a pitch for more defense expenditures, and then spending that money pursuing policies that increase the threat of terrorism, also known as running a PROTECTION RACKET
- Justice Scalia Refuses to Recuse Himself from Cheney Energy Task Force Case
- Show trials in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
- Denial of due process for Guantanamo detainees
- Abu Ghraib
- Deliberate and intentional policies to starve the operations of the federal government with military expenditures from perpetual warfare (Grover Norquist)
- Deliberately stacking the judiciary with judges that belong to an openly anti-republican legal organization representing an extreme, radical minority of the legal community
- Bernard Kerick nomination for Secretary of Homeland Security
- Censuring scientists from issuing factual reports on the threat from global warming
- Giving medals to Bremer and Tenet
- Promoting Rice to Secretary of State, the NSA who didn’t connect the dots
- Jack Abramoff’s connections to the Whitehouse
- Threatening the government of Germany with retaliation, for war crimes prosecutions of US government officials
- FALSELY claiming to have foiled terrorist plots, later revealed as fabricated hoaxes
- Purging the CIA of Democrats
- Katrina
- Dick Cheney telling Senator Patrick Leahy, on the Senate Floor, to "Go fuck yourself."
- Using FBI agents to goad poverty-stricken drug addicts into participating in a "terrorist plot" invented and orchestrated by the government
- Refusing to Disclose Statistics on Civilian Casualties in Iraq
- Using "national security" as a cover for the commission of several crimes, and to attempt to defeat judicial review
- Malicious and false prosecutions of political dissidents, including a former UN weapons inspector who exposed intelligence fraud used as a pretext for war
- Threatening prosecutions of journalists and intelligence officials who exposed WAR CRIMES
- Using appointments and transfers to stall the Abramoff investigation
- NPR and PBS Used as White House Propaganda Machine
- Tax Incentives for U.S. Companies to Move Off-Shore
- Cheney Shoots Supporter in Face
- A signing statement policy that institutes rule by decree
- Signing legislation that was not passed by Congress into law
- Building concentration camps in the United States
- Use of RNC Servers for Official Gov'ment Business
- 250 emails Alberto Gonzales "forgot" to turn over to Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald
- Defrauding the Supreme Court, in the Hamdi case
- Bankrolling two terrorist groups to carry on an undeclared war in Iran
- Government contracts for a 20,000 strong mercenary army specializing in urban guerilla warfare, and exempt from any rule of law (Blackwater)
- Erosion of Habeus Corpus
- Immunizing government officials from prosecution for war crimes, which is ITSELF a war crime
- Malicious and false prosecutions of public officials, for the purpose of influencing elections
- US Attorney Firings
- Rove's "math" and proven vote switching in the 2006 election
- 80,000 people on the no-fly list, some for attending peace rallies
- Reversing a specific prohibition in law against unwarranted searches of registered mail, BY DECREE
- Expanding the proliferation of nuclear weapons in East Asia, by selling nuclear materials to India
- Threatening Iran with pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons, in violation of the UN Charter
- Taking Iranian diplomats HOSTAGE who were in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government, and illegally detaining them for unsubstantiated allegations of espionage.
- Representing non-Iranian weapons as "Iranian weapons" in an attempt to fabricate a pretext for war with Iran
- Bankrolling al-queda!
- Walter Reed Scandal
- Sending Troops to War that are Unfit for Battle
- Conspiring to establish permanant colonial control over 70% of Iraq's oil
- Publicly stated intention, by the Vice President, to defy subpoenas issued by the Congress under any circumstances
- Public statement, by the Vice President, that for purposes of inquiry of the executive branch, he is a member of the legislative branch, and for purposes of inquiry of the legislative branch, he is a member of the executive branch.
- Public statement, by the Vice President, that Congress can't stop the president from initiating a war
- Matteo Fontana Placed on Leave from the Department of Education for Receiving $100,000 in Stock from a Student Loan Lender
- Bush's Top Domestic Policy Advisor, Claude Alexander Allen, Going Down in a $5,000 Shop-lifting Spree
- Lurita Doan, Head of GSA, hosts a luncheon explaining how political contributions to the GOP can help donors get government contracts.
- USAID Secretary Caught in Call-Girl Ring
- Director of National Intelligence explains to Senate Intelligence Committee, that the president has the constitutional authority to bypass FISA laws and authorize illegal domestic wiretaps, three months after the Attorney General testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the president has suspended illegal wiretapping and will comply with FISA. The government argued after the AG’s announcement in January that court cases about the illegal taps were moot.