George W. Bush administration controversies

The September 11 attacks, colloquially known as 9/11, were a coordinated series of suicide attacks perpetrated by the Islamist terrorist organization al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four airliners, then flew one into each of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York City. The third plane crashed into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in a rural Pennsylvania field during a passenger revolt. In response to the attacks, the United States launched the global war on terror, seeking to eliminate hostile groups deemed terrorist organizations, and the governments purported to support them. This foreign policy agenda was conducted over the next two decades.

The Iraq War, also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States–led coalition, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. During the US occupation of Iraq, the conflict persisted as an insurgency that arose against coalition forces and the newly established Iraqi government. US forces were officially withdrawn in 2011. In 2014, the US became re-engaged in Iraq, leading a new coalition under Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, as the conflict evolved into the ongoing Islamic State insurgency.

Hurricane Katrina was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that killed 1,392 people and caused damage estimated at $125 billion, particularly in and around the city of New Orleans, in late August 2005. It is tied with Hurricane Harvey as being the costliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin. Katrina was the twelfth tropical cyclone, the fifth hurricane, the third major hurricane, and the second Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was also the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States, as measured by barometric pressure.

military campaign started after September 11 attacks

United States military prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba

asymmetric war between the Mexican Government and various drug trafficking syndicates

2003 military invasion led by the United States

PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. The program is also known by the SIGAD . PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google and Apple under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms. Among other things, the NSA can use these PRISM requests to target communications that were encrypted when they traveled across the internet backbone, to focus on

former prison in Abu Ghraib, Iraq

group of countries identified collectively as enemies by U.S. President George W. Bush during the 2000s

2001 United States anti-terrorism law

conspiracy theories regarding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks

American private military company

Halliburton Company is an American multinational corporation and the world's second-largest oil service company, responsible for most of the world's fracking operations. The company, incorporated in the United States, has dual headquarters located in Houston and in Dubai.

thumb|Two United States soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier waterboard a captured North Vietnamese prisoner of war near [[Da Nang. Published on the front cover of The Washington Post on 21 January 1968.]] Waterboarding or controlled drowning is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the person to experience the sensation of drowning. In the most common method of waterboarding, the captive's face is covered with cloth or some other thin material and immobilized on their back at an incline of 10 to

2004 American military atrocity during the Iraq War

2003–2004 transitional government of Iraq

2001 accounting scandal of American energy company Enron

former American neoconservative think tank

controversy when a journalist leaked a CIA operative's identity

Cuban terrorist and CIA agent (1928–2018)

research and development of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

commission to investigate the attacks of September 11th, 2001

2001 multinational military operation

U.S. legislation also known as the Troubled Assets Recovery Plan

euphemism for program of systematic torture by U.S government's military

group of loosely affiliated organizations and individuals that asserts that the 2001 terror attacks are at the center of a conspiracy

U.S. government report on the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks

American engineering, procurement, and construction company.

cat owned by USA presidential Bush family

state-sponsored abduction

war that is initiated in an attempt to deal with an expected attack before that attack materializes

use of science for political purposes

United States military deployment on Iraqi territory after US led invasion in 2003

person who directly engages in armed conflict in violation of the laws of war

United States federal law enacted 2 August 2002

program of the United States government

Report compiled by the bipartisan United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

authorized telecommunications intercept point

United States drone strikes in Pakistan between 2004 and 2018

Iraq war casualties

aviation accident

Sinclair, Inc., doing business as Sinclair Broadcast Group, is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland, the company is the second-largest television station operator in the United States by number of stations after Nexstar Media Group, owning or operating 193 stations across the country in over 100 markets, covering 40% of American households.

secret headquarters used by the CIA

demonstrations by opponents of the Iraq War

Iraqi defector

2008 incident in Baghdad, Iraq

August 6, 2001 intelligence memo

Media event

Area set aside in public places for the purpose of political protesting

allegations that Saudi Arabia supported the 9/11 attacks

energy crisis in 2000–01 in California

legal memoranda by John Yoo and Jay Bybee

torture by American soldiers in Bagram

Record of secret meeting about Iraq War (2002)

Forged documents supposedly showing that Saddam Hussein tried to purchase yellowcake uranium

US federal government list of individuals banned from US commercial flights

July 2003 incident involving Turkish and American soldiers

information alleging connections between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda

human rights conditions in post-invasion Iraq