Bush-Cheney administration

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This page covers the actions of George W. Bush's administration during the time he was in office.

Actions

• The No Child Left Behind Act
• The USA PATRIOT Act
• The Invasion & Occupation of Iraq
• Lackadaisical response to Hurricane Katrina
• Skyrocketing secrecy: "Government secrecy has reached a historic high, even compared to the Cold War (San Diego Union July 3). Federal departments are classifying documents at a rate of 125 per minute... or two per second... and inventing new kinds of classification, while declassification efforts that peaked under the Clinton Administration have slowed to a crawl." ([1] 2005-09-02 entry)
• Repeated incidents of action against whistleblowers:
  • Bunnatine Greenhouse: The Washington Post The Carpetbagger Report (possibly problematic links: [2] [3])
  • ...and that guy whose undercover agent wife was exposed after he said something...