Unlawful or abusive acts carried out by cabinet officials, agency heads, and appointees at the president's direction, with his authorization, or with his knowledge and inaction.
About the tiers. Tier A: an official record establishes what makes the conduct abuse of power, such as a court, inspector general, GAO or congressional finding; the government's or the president's own documents or words; or a filing the law requires to be made to a federal regulator. Tier B: the conduct is documented by independent reporting or disclosures, but no official record establishes it. Cross-referenced incidents are documented in full elsewhere in the record and linked. We publish all, labeled.