Bush Scandals List

Table of Contents for Complete List

Introduction

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

1. Patient neglect at Walter Reed Army Hospital

Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Supporting the troops, Whistleblower

2. US Attorney firings

Posted in: Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ

3. Libby/Plame Affair (Outing a CIA agent)

Posted in: Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Iraq

4. Iraq war

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq, Middle East, WMD

5. Afghanistan (leaving before the job was done)

Posted in: Afghanistan, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror

6. Iran saber rattling

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iran, Middle East, WMD

7. North Korea (mishandling nuclear issue)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, WMD

8. The War on Terror (failure to capture Osama bin Laden, dubious allies)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror

9. Civilian contractors in Iraq (poor service for big bucks)

Posted in: Contractors, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

10. Military Commissions Act (torture, kangaroo courts, indefinite detention, and loss of habeas corpus)

Posted in: Guantanamo, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Torture, War on Terror

11. Hurricane Katrina and the drowning of New Orleans

Posted in: Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Katrina

12. NSA warrantless wiretapping

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Revolving Door, Surveillance, War on Terror, Whistleblower

13. SWIFT (international money transfers)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Surveillance, War on Terror

14. Black sites and rendition

Posted in: Guantanamo, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Torture, War on Terror

15. Department of Homeland Security (a massive boondoggle)

Posted in: DHS/Homeland Security, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror

16. K Street lobbyists (for government you can buy)

Posted in: Abramoff, Corruption, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

17. Dusty Foggo (No. 3 at the CIA)

Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ

18. Duke Cunningham (a corrupt politician)

Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Sex

19. Tom Delay (another corrupt politician)

Posted in: Abramoff, Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

20. Mark Foley and the House pages

Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Sex

21. Cheney Energy Task Force (and hiding info about it)

Posted in: Energy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

22. Tax cuts for the richest of the rich

Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

23. Global warming (denial and stalling)

Posted in: Energy, Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Inspector General

24. Terri Schiavo and the attempted trashing of family privacy rights

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Political Interference, Religion

25. Budget deficits and a greatly increased national debt

Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

26. Stacking of the Supreme Court (Roberts and Alito)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution

27. Medicare( lack of long term solvency)

Posted in: Economy, Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

28. Medicare Part D (Drug prescriptions)

Posted in: Corruption, Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

29. Healthcare general mess

Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

30. Doug Feith (stovepiping Iraq intel)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Inspector General, Intelligence, Iraq, Political Interference

31. 2000 election (stolen)

Posted in: Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

32. 2004 election (rigging)

Posted in: Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

33. 9/11 Commission limitation and manipulation of

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Political Interference, War on Terror

34. 9/11 Commission’s recommendations delayed implementation

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic, War on Terror

35. Marginalization of the UN

Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

36. Preventive war doctrine

Posted in: Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq, Law/Constitution, War on Terror

37. Loss of US prestige

Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror

38. Inaction on Israeli-Palestinian peace process

Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Middle East

39. Lack of spending on basic research

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Science

40. Alberto Gonzales

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Politicization of the DOJ, War on Terror

41. FDA restricting the mission

Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

42. EPA restricting the mission

Posted in: Energy, Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution

43. Porter Goss trashing the CIA

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Intelligence

44. Militarization of intelligence

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence

45. Rampant cronyism

Posted in: Corruption, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

46. Signing statements

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution

47. Unilateral Executive

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution

48. Abuse of the National Guard

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Supporting the troops

49. Breaking the Army

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Supporting the troops

50. Increase in the balance of trade deficit

Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

51. Grassley Bankruptcy Bill (creditors favored over debtors)

Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

52. Cross border Mexican truck safety

Posted in: Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

53. Rove’s security clearance (kept after his part in outing Valerie Plame)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Politics/Domestic

54. Anti-immigration raids (children and parents separated)

Posted in: DHS/Homeland Security, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Immigration

55. Dubai Ports deal (a Middle East company in charge of US ports in the age of terrorism)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic, War on Terror

56. Patriot Act and its Extension

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution, War on Terror

57. Privatization of Social Security (a bad idea endlessly recycled)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

58. War on Science

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Science

59. David Safavian (Abramoff associate)

Posted in: Abramoff, Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

60. Claude Allen (White House adviser caught shoplifting)

Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

61. Bush lying about firing Rumsfeld before the November 2006 election

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

62. Armstrong Williams (paid propagandists)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media

63. Labor Department (ground down by Mitch McConnell’s wife)

Posted in: Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Labor, Politics/Domestic

64. Net neutrality/media ownership

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media

65. Israeli bombing of Lebanon (delay in putting a ceasefire in place)

Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Middle East

66. PDB on Bin Laden (ignoring the terrorist threat pre-9/11)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, War on Terror

67. Ground Zero declared non-toxic

Posted in: Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror

68. Sago mining disaster (non-enforcement of safety regs)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Labor

69. Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination (a supreme act of cronyism)

Posted in: Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution

70. Vetoing stem cell research

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Science

71. Plan B contraception

Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

72. Clear Skies/ Healthy Forests Acts (weakening pollution controls and opening forests to logging)

Posted in: Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

73. Ballistic missile shield (only works to antagonize the Russians)

Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

74. Leandro Aragoncillo (the spy in Cheney’s office)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution

75. Overseas AIDS programs (reflecting the Administration’s benighted views on sex)

Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

76. Constitutional amendment against gay marriage

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Religion

77. Drilling in Bristol Bay, Alaska

Posted in: Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

78. Canard of Clintons trashing the White House before leaving

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

79. Jeff Gannon (a male prostitute in the White House press corps)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media

80. Native American trust funds

Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence, Politics/Domestic

81. Creationist materials at national parks

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Science

82. Returning US war dead (banning photographing the returning coffins)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Supporting the troops

83. False military reporting (Pat Tillman, Jessica Lynch)

Posted in: Afghanistan, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media

84. AIPAC spy scandal

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence

85. Detainee court cases (a quick guide)

Posted in: Guantanamo, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution, War on Terror

86. Opening US mail

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Law/Constitution

87. Subprime mortgage bubble

Posted in: Corruption, Economy, Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

88. Bush’s ties to Enron

Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Political Interference

89. 2001 California energy crisis (refusal to intervene in this Enron manufactured crisis)

Posted in: Corruption, Energy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

90. Darfur (calling it genocide is not a policy)

Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

91. Russian loose nukes (underfunding)

Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, WMD

92. OPR Gonzales investigation (stymied)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ

93. Interference in lawsuit against Big Tobacco

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ

94. Phone jamming in New Hampshire (with White House connections)

Posted in: Corruption, Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

95. Steven Griles (Abramoff’s man at Interior)

Posted in: Abramoff, Corruption, Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

96. US Attorney targeting of Democratic office holders

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ

97. Interim US Attorney provision (an attempt to appoint USAs without Senate approval)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ

98. FBI National Security Letters (overuse and abuse)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Law/Constitution

99. GSA (Hatch Act violations)

Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

100. Karl Rove

Posted in: Abramoff, Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

101. Civil Rights Division at Justice (voter fraud used to suppress minority voting)

Posted in: Corruption, Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

102. Campaign finance (still rotten)

Posted in: Corruption, Elections

103. Swift boating of John Kerry

Posted in: Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

104. No Child Left Behind (an uneducated President’s predictable approach to education)

Posted in: Education, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

105. Susan Dudley (an anti-regulator regulator)

Posted in: Anti-candidate, Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

106. Paul Wolfowitz (two disasters for the price of one: Iraq and the World Bank)

Posted in: Anti-candidate, Cronyism, Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq, War on Terror

107. Kenneth Tomlinson (conservative interference in public broadcasting)

Posted in: Corruption, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media

108. Matteo Fontana (student loan administrator bought and paid for by student loan companies)

Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media

109. Rachel Paulose (abrasive crony interim USA for Minnesota)

Posted in: Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ

110. White House email on RNC servers (in contravention of White House Records Act)

Posted in: Criminality, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Incompetence

111. Georgia Thompson Wisconsin employee railroaded by Republican USA before an election

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ

112. Pre-election investigation of Bob Menendez

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ

113. Kay James (political hires)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ

114. Bernard Kerik (Giuliani crony)

Posted in: Cronyism, DHS/Homeland Security, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq

115. Bush’s early years

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

116. Watch lists (so many, so large, so ineffective)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror

117. Classification and de-classification Cheney style

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution

118. Cheney shoots Harry Whittington

Posted in: Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media

119. ATS (another database, this one at the DHS)

Posted in: DHS/Homeland Security, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror

120. Scalia conflict of interest (his duck hunting trip with Cheney)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution, Political Interference

121. Election Assistance Commission (suppressed a report showing voter fraud was not a problem)

Posted in: Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Political Interference

122. Attacks against Mohammed ElBaradei (mostly for being right about Iraqi and Iranian WMD)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq, WMD

123. Alice Fisher (Criminal Division Justice)

Posted in: Abramoff, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ

124. House Ethics Committee (the ethics part is just for laughs)

Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

125. Media complicity in the Bush years

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Media

126. Democratic inaction (in the same time frame)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

127. Lack of Republican oversight (ditto)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

128. AUMF against Iraq (often cited, seldom read)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq, War on Terror

129. Medals of Freedom for the disaster in Iraq

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Iraq

130. Real ID Act

Posted in: Elections, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Surveillance

131. Jose Padilla (an American enemy combatant)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Law/Constitution, War on Terror

132. Electronic prescription reporting

Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence

133. Jean-Bertrand Aristide (Haiti)

Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

134. Hugo Chavez (Venezuela)

Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

135. Ethanol (a political fuel)

Posted in: Energy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

136. Republican filibustering

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

137. Stacking of federal judiciary with hacks

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

138. Ralph Reed (Abramoff associate)

Posted in: Abramoff, Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

139. Proselytizing at the US Air Force Academy

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Religion

140. Office of Faith Based Initiatives (a sop to the religious right)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic, Religion

141. Military disability ratings (another story of how Bush really supports the troops)

Posted in: Health, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Supporting the troops

142. Earmarks (good when Republicans do them, bad when Democrats use them)

Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politics/Domestic

143. Medicare privatization (more victimization of the elderly)

Posted in: Corruption, Health

144. Nuclear proliferation (a very unequal approach)

Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, WMD

145. Julie MacDonald (Fish and Wildlife)

Posted in: Anti-candidate, Environment, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

146. Darleen Druyum (defense procurement scam)

Posted in: Corruption, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Revolving Door

147. Luis Posada Carriles/Vang Pao (terrorists but our terrorist)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror

148. No White House investigation into Plame affair

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Intelligence, Iraq

149. Politics at NASA

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Inspector General

150. Attempt to limit federal prisoners testifying before Congress

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Politicization of the DOJ

151. Corporate remuneration

Posted in: Corruption, Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

152. Financial analysis and investment (a supposed separation)

Posted in: Corruption, Economy, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals

153. Scott Bloch (whistleblower protection, not really)

Posted in: Anti-candidate, Corruption, Cronyism, Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, Whistleblower

154. Richard Levernier and Bogdan Dzakovic (whistleblowers)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror, Whistleblower

155. Sibel Edmonds (whistleblower)

Posted in: Hugh's List of Bush Scandals, War on Terror, Whistleblower

156. Monica Goodling (political hires)

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