Strangely Not Listed Under "Malevolent Bungling"

With today's sex scandal resignation at the State Department - the anti-sex ed guy of course -(just the beginning of a scandal orgy, I assure you) , and the Justice department indictment of the number 3 official at the CIA, also involving public CIA sex as well as the firing of the US attorney who brought the indictment, I was really losing track - Wikipedia has a nice summary of the gently-termed "controversies" of the Bush Administration. I reproduce some of it here.

There is no Z entry, but I think today's escort service kerfuffle will soon suffice under XXX.

Alleged retaliatory acts against opponents

• Plame affair
• Al Jazeera bombing memo
• Bunny Greenhouse

Controversies surrounding pre-Iraq war intelligence

• Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
• Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda
• Office of Special Plans
• Niger uranium forgeries
• CIA leak grand jury investigation
• Downing Street memo
• Bush-Blair memo

Controversies surrounding human rights

• Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
• Extraordinary rendition
• Unlawful combatant
• John Negroponte

Controversies surrounding spying

• NSA call database
• NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
• Spying on the United Nations

Controversies surrounding propaganda

• Bush administration payment of columnists
• Lincoln Group
• White House Iraq Group

Controversies surrounding obstruction

• 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal

Controversies surrounding response to national crisis

• Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina
• Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal

Controversies involving business / economics

• Halliburton
• Dubai Ports World controversy
• 2002 United States steel tariff

Controversies involving influence / lobbying

• Energy Task Force

Controversies involving secrecy / censorship

• Executive Order 13233
• State Secrets Privilege
• Free speech zone
• EPA 9/11 pollution controversy
• Misrepresentation of cause of death of Pat Tillman
• Bush White House e-mail controversy (Use of Republican National Committee servers and private mail systems for Government business)

Controversies surrounding nepotism / cronyism

• Michael D. Brown
• Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination
• Uncle "Bucky"
• Sam Fox

Controversies surrounding the growth of executive power

• Unitary executive theory
• Signing statement
• Line-item veto
• Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy

Controversies surrounding criminal acts of Administration officials

• Brian Doyle
• Claude Allen
• David Safavian
• Larry Franklin
• Roger Stillwell
• Frank Figueroa
• Darleen Druyun
• Lewis Libby

Controversies surrounding investigation of Administration officials or nominees

• Carl Truscott
• Joseph E. Schmitz
• J. Steven Griles
• Susan Ralston
• Kyle Foggo
• Janet Rehnquist
• Kenneth Tomlinson
• George Deutsch
• Richard Perle
• James G. Roche
• Philip Cooney
• Bernard Kerik
• Timothy Flanigan
• Linda Chavez
• Eric Keroack
• Lurita Doan

1 Executive Order 13233 2 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal 2002 United States steel tariff 2003 invasion of Iraq 2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans A ACLU v. NSA Jack Abramoff Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse Al Jazeera bombing memo Al Qa'qaa high explosives controversy Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory Joe Allbaugh Claude Allen Alternative theories regarding the CIA leak scandal The Apprentice (book) B Bagram torture and prisoner abuse Michael A. Battle Stephen M. Biskupic Black site Daniel Bogden Boxgate Michael D. Brown Bush White House e-mail controversy Bush administration payment of columnists William H.T. Bush Bush-Blair memo C CIA leak grand jury investigation CIA leak scandal (2003) Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 Paul K. Charlton (attorney) Margaret Chiara Chris Oprison Combatant Status Review Tribunal Conyers v. Bush Criticism of the War on Terrorism Bud Cummins D Debra Wong Yang Department of Defense Directive 2310 George Deutsch Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy Downing Street memo Brian Doyle Tyler Drumheller Dubai Ports World controversy E EPA 9/11 pollution controversy Michael Elston

E cont. Energy Task Force Extraordinary rendition F Flynt Leverett Sam Fox Larry Franklin Free speech zone G Maggie Gallagher Jeff Gannon George W. Bush administration George W. Bush and the Iraq War George W. Bush insider trading allegations George W. Bush military service controversy George W. Bush substance abuse controversy Monica Goodling Governments' positions pre-2003 invasion of Iraq Bunny Greenhouse Timothy Griffin H Haditha killings Halliburton Hamdan v. Rumsfeld Khidir Hamza Hepting v. AT&T Richard Hertling Dick Cheney hunting incident Hurricane Katrina I David Iglesias (attorney) Iraq War J J. Scott Jennings K Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina L Carol Lam Lancet surveys of mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal Legal challenges to NSA warrantless searches in the United States Lewis Libby Lincoln Group M Carla Martin McCain Detainee Amendment John McKay (attorney) Michael McManus (columnist) Paul McNulty Menorah Gardens Harriet Miers Military Commissions Act of 2006 William Moschella N NSA call database NSA electronic surveillance program NSA warrantless surveillance controversy

N cont. John Negroponte Niger uranium forgeries No-hearing hearings O The One Percent Doctrine Operation Sarindar P Political effects of Hurricane Katrina Presidential Records Act Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007 Protests against the Iraq War R Susan Ralston Karl Rove Kevin V. Ryan (attorney) S Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda Kyle Sampson David C. Sanborn Scientific Integrity in Policymaking Signing statement Sisters (Lynne Cheney novel) Office of Special Plans State Secrets Privilege Stovepiping T Talk:George W. Bush/Archive 54 Anna Diggs Taylor Jeffrey A. Taylor Terrorist Finance Tracking Program ThinThread James Tobin (political operative) Brett Tolman U Spying on the United Nations Unitary executive theory United States immigration debate United States v. Libby Unlawful combatant V Violence in occupied Iraq W Iraq and weapons of mass destruction Post-Saddam WMD search Walter Reed Army Medical Center Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal Walter Wojdakowski War on Terrorism War on Terrorism - Theaters of operation Warrantless searches in the United States Waterboarding White House Iraq Group White phosphorus use in Iraq Armstrong Williams Y John Yoo