INDEX

Abacha, Sani

ABC

abortion

Abraham, Spencer

torture scandal

as Cheney's attack dog

as Cheney's chief of staff

Agriculture Department

Iraq connection theory invented by Cheney

prisoners

September 11 attacks

Altanmia Commercial Marketing Company

American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA)

"Defending Civilization" report of

American Enterprise Institute

American Petroleum Institute

American Political Science Association (APSA)

Amoco

Amoco Political Action Committee

Army Corps of Engineers

Berlin Wall, collapse of

Bradley Woods and Company

Brazil

Briody, Dan The Halliburton Agenda,

British Petroleum

Brookings Institution

Bureau of Land Management

Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs

1992 election loss

gaffe-prone nature of

as governor of Texas

inexperience

Ken Lay and

overpowered by Cheney

right-wing Christianity of

September 11 response

as Texas Rangers owner

tutored by Cheney

2000 campaign and election

2003 State of the Union address

VP search charade

see also Bush-Cheney administration

Bush, Laura

Bush-Cheney administration: Bush overpowered by Cheney

Cheney pushes Bush into Iraq War

CO₂ pledge broken

defense expenditures

domestic eavesdropping and banking surveillance programs

energy policy

Enron ties

environmental policy

executive-centered concept of government

false intelligence to justify Iraq War

foreign policy

Geneva Conventions suspended by

Halliburton ties

influence of Ford White House on

insularity of

Iraq contracts to Halliburton

Iraq-9/11 connection invented by

paper trail avoided by

plans for preemptive attack on Iran

pre-9/11 disarray

Russia and

September 11 response

Bush-Cheney Presidential Transition Foundation, Inc.

Byheejay

1976 presidential campaign

Casey, Bill

Casper Star-Tribune,

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

bin Laden escape

Cheney's contempt for

covert activity in Nicaragua

in need of repair

President's Daily Briefing

torture activities

Valerie Wilson outed from

wiretapping activities

on "evil" in academia

Executive Privilege,

in high school

as housebound mother

as NEH head

as second fiddle to her husband

Cheney, Mary

Cheney, Richard B.: anti-Soviet policy

approval numbers

APSA fellowship

ascent to congressional power

attack dog role

"Backseat" nickname

becomes chief of staff for Ford

Bush overpowered by

Bush tutored by

Bush's VP search charade and

celebrity of

Central American issues

CIA hated by

cold warrior role

in Congress

Congress controlled by

conservationist moment of

convention speech (2000)

courtship and marriage

daughters of

as defense buildup advocate

as defense secretary

diminishing power of

doctrine of fear

draft dodged by

drinking and partying

energy policy

executive-centered concept of government

false intelligence to justify Iraq War

"Grand Teuton" nickname

Gulf War and

as Halliburton CEO

Halliburton deferred compensation and stock options

heart problems

in high school

hunting expeditions and accidents

as inept business leader

Iran-Contra investigation role

Iraq contracts to Halliburton

Iraq-9/11 connection invented by

leaking skill

-Lieberman debate

Niger yellow cake documents

1975 presidential campaign and

1978 congressional campaign

paper trail avoided by

in PEOC bunker

personality change due to health problems

Colin Powell and

profanity of

questions for

Nelson Rockefeller and

Donald Rumsfeld and

sanctions opposed by

Antonin Scalia and

second Capitol office

secrecy of

September 11 response

staff of

telegenic qualities lacking in

torture policy

transition team

2000 campaign and election

WW speech

VP nomination accepted by

wealth of

Welch affair

Whittington shot by

wit of

Jim Wright and

see also Bush-Cheney administration

Chevron

China

Christianity, right-wing

Church Commission

civil liberties, Bush-Cheney disregard for

Clarke, Richard

Against All Enemies,

defense spending and cuts

foreign policy

impeachment of

1992 campaign and election

Commodity Futures Political Action Fund

communism

fall of

"compelling emergency,"

Congress, U.S.

Cheney's career in

Cheney's contempt for

Contra funding and

defense cuts

Democratic

Ford administration and

Iraq War and

oversight responsibility

post-9/11 security concerns

Republican

SHAMROCK hearings

2006 elections

Watergate-era reforms

see also House of Representatives, U.S.;

Senate, U.S.

Conoco

Conservative Opportunity Society (COS)

Constitution, U.S.

Bush-Cheney contempt for

Contras

illegal funding of

see also Iran-Contra

Contratto, Dana

Cooley, Denton

Cost of Living Council

Courter, Jim

Court of Appeals, U.S.

Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.

Davis, Gray

Davis, Sandy

Dean, John

Conservatives Without Conscience,

Defense Department

Cheney as defense secretary

Iraq War contracts to Halliburton

Rumsfeld as defense secretary

spending and cuts

Welch affair

Defense Planning Guidance report

Democratic Party

"Downing Street Memos,"

Dunlap, Al "Chainsaw,"

education

Lynne Cheney on "evil" in academia

history teaching standards

Education Department

Edwards, Mickey

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Bush-Cheney administration

Enron and

Ford administration

GAO investigation of

California trading schemes

scandal and collapse

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

European Marine Contractors

Executive Order 13211

executive power

Bush-Cheney expansion of

executive privilege

signing statements

Exelon

Export-Import Bank of the United States

Exxon

Fahd, King

Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

federal deficit

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Federal Trade Commission

administration of

intelligence and wiretapping scandals

leaks

1976 presidential campaign

Nixon pardoned by

Nixon-to-Ford transition

Ford, Jim

Ford Library

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

foreign policy

Bush-Cheney administration

Bush père administration

Carter administration

Clinton administration

détente

Ford administration

Reagan administration

Fortune magazine

Fox News

Bush-Cheney ties to

fracking see hydraulic fracturing

France

Frandsen, Joan

Franklin, Ben

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

lawsuit

Bush-Cheney disregard for

Bush's CO₂ pledge broken

2000 presidential campaign

Goss, Porter

Government Accountability Office (GAO),

Cheney sued by

energy task force investigation

role of

Great Britain

colonialism

role of Iraq War

Gulf War (1991)

accounting irregularities

background of

Gulf War and

lack of ethics

Nigeria bribery allegations

Harvard University

Ford administration articles

Highland Insurance group

history teaching standards

homosexuality

Horton, Frank

House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense

House Committee on Government Reform

House Ethics Committee

House Government Reform Committee

House Intelligence Committee

House Interior Affairs Committee

House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee

House Judiciary Committee

House of Representatives, U.S.

Cheney in

hall parties

office space

see also Congress, U.S.

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

House Research Committee

Hudson Institute

Hughes, Karen

human rights

Abu Ghraib prison scandal

Halliburton disregard for

9/11 connection theory

nuclear weapons program

Oil for Food corruption

overthrow of

Hyde, Henry

hydraulic fracturing

ICBMs >

Ingersol Dresser Pump Company

Inouye, Daniel

Intelligence Identities Protection Act

Interior Department

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),

Iran

Halliburton projects in

hostage crisis

-Iraq war

nuclear policy

planned U.S. bombing of

Reagan administration and

request for negotiations with U.S.

sanctions

U.S. business interests in

Iran-Contra

Cheney's role

hearings

joint investigative committee

majority report

minority report

North testimony

Iran Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA)

-Iran war

postwar government

Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority

Iraqi National Congress (INC)

Iraq War

beginning of

Bush-Cheney policy

casualties

false intelligence as justification for

Halliburton and KBR contracts

original document

poor planning and execution

run-up to

seeds of

September 11 connection invented by Cheney

U.S. energy policy interests

Jackson, Henry M. "Scoop,"

in Bush's VP search charade

compromising gift controversy

political career ruined by Cheney

Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR)

Hussein's invasion of

Bush-Cheney campaign

Cheney's skill in

CIA activity in Nicaragua

Defense Planning Guidance report

Ford administration

Valerie Wilson case

Lebanon, Israeli bombing of

Libby, I. Lewis "Scooter,"

as Cheney's chief of staff

indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice

Iraq War and

plot to discredit Wilson

debate with Cheney

Limited Contingency Study

London Sunday Times,

MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour;

MAD (mutually assured destruction)

Mann, James

Rise of the Vulcans,

Mann, Thomas

Marsh, Jack

Marshall, John

Marshall, Joshua Micah

anti-torture amendment

2000 presidential campaign

as Vietnam prisoner of war

McNeill, Corbin A.,Jr.

media

Niger uranium story and Plame leak

on plan to bomb Iran

on September 11 attacks

on torture policy

on 2000 campaign

on Whittington hunting accident

see also specific publications, journalists, and television shows

Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh

Mujahedeen e Khalq (MEK)

National Council on the Humanities

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

National Energy Policy Development Group

GAO investigation of

Iraq War and

secret participants and deliberations

National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq

National Journal, The,

national security

post-9/11 security concerns

National Security Agency (NSA)

National Security Council (NSC)

NATO

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

New York Times, The,

Bush-Cheney administration and

Hersh articles on Ford administration

Niger uranium op-ed and Plame leak

Nicaragua

illegal funding of Con-tras in

Reagan's secret war in

Sandinistas

Somoza dynasty

Nields, John

Niger: Wilson's trip to

yellow cake documents

Nigeria

Halliburton corruption scandal in

Iran-Contra testimony

nuclear energy

end of Cold War

Nunn-Lugar Comparative Threat Reduction Initiative

Odessa Permian Basin oilfields

Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)

Office of Legal Counsel (OLC),

Office of Legal Policy

Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Office of the Vice President (OVP)

Oklahoma City bombing

Osprey helicopter

Bush-Cheney absence of

Cheney as defense secretary

Iraq War policy

plans for preemptive attack on Iran

Plame, Valerie see Wilson, Valerie Plame

Podhoretz, Norman

Poe, Heather

Poindexter, John

political action committees

polls

Powell, Colin

Abu Ghraib and

as chair of Joint Chiefs

Cheney and

diplomacy-first position on Iraq

Gulf War and

as secretary of state

U.N. speech on Iraq

presidency

Bush-Cheney concept of executive-centered government

executive privilege

war powers

see also presidential elections;

specific presidents

President Ford Committee (PFC)

presidential elections: of 1976

Prettyman, E. Barrett

Project for the New American Century (PNAC)

Rahman, Shiekh Omar Abdel

impeachment possibility

Iran-Contra and

MX missile program

1976 presidential campaign

Rehnquist, William

Republican Conference

Republican National Committee

Republican National Convention (2000)

Republican Party

hall parties

Republican Policy Committee

Restore Iraqi Oil (RIO)

Rice, Condoleezza

Iraq War and

as secretary of state

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Root, Dan

Rove, Karl

plot to discredit Wilson

congressional career

as Ford's chief of staff

ineptitude of

as NATO ambassador

OEO position

September 11 attacks and

torture policy

Russert, Tim

Russia (former Soviet Union)

Bush-Cheney administration and

Cheney and

see also Soviet Union

Sanchez, Rick

sanctions, international

Halliburton vs.

"Don't Attack Saddam" op-ed piece

Secord, Richard

Secret Service

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Senate, U.S.

Cheney's VP role in

see also Congress, U.S.

Senate Armed Services Committee

separation of powers

September 11 terrorist attacks

fading effect of

Iraq connection theory invented by Cheney

Bush-Cheney use of

Social Security Trust Fund

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Southern Christian Republicans

Ford administration and

Reagan administration and

see also Russia (former Soviet Union)

Strategic Air Command

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld,

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld,

Rasul v. Bush,

role in 2000 presidential election

United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Group,

surveillance, government

Ford administration

see also wiretapping

Suskind, Ron: The One Percent Doctrine,

The Price of Loyalty,

Shock and Awe in Fort Worth,

Bush-Cheney torture policy and

Iraq link

Bush as governor of

S & L industry

Bush-Cheney policy of

McCain anti-torture amendment

memos

Supreme Court rulings

tactics

Tower, John Goodwin

drinking and womanizing

Train, Russell E.

Politics, Pollution, and Pandas,

Transportation Department

Bush's speech to

Iraq debate

Oil for Food program

Powell's speech on Iraq

Security Council

weapons inspections in Iraq

U.S. Export Administration Act

United States of America v. I. Lewis Libby,

University of Texas, Austin

University of Wisconsin

University of Wyoming

USA Engage

Uzbekistan

Veteran of Foreign Wars convention

vice presidency

official residence

role defined by Cheney

see also specific vice presidents

Vietnam War

Cheney avoids service in

Wall Street Journal, The

Walsh, Lawrence

Walton, Reggie

War Crimes Act (1996)

Warner, John

war powers

War Powers Resolution

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Washington Post, The,

Washington Times, The,

Watergate

Watt, James

Waxman, Henry

energy task force investigation

Ways and Means Committee

weapons of mass destruction

false intelligence about

Weyerhauser Special Political Action Committee

see also specific administrations

Whitman, Christine Todd

shot by Cheney

Niger uranium op-ed article

smear campaign against

Wilson, Valerie Plame

outed from CIA

Wilson, Woodrow

wiretapping

Bush-Cheney use of

court rulings on

Ford administration scandal

Wolfowitz, Paul

Limited Contingency Study

rise in Defense Department

role in Iraq War

World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,

World War II

Wright, Jim

career ended by Cheney

ethics investigation

Iran-Contra hearings

as Speaker of the House

Wyoming

Dick and Lynne Cheney as teenagers in

federal land use policy

Washakie Wilderness

Wyoming Outdoor Council

Wyoming Wilderness Act

Yale University, Cheney flunks out of

Yoo, John

Zubaydah, Abu