If you could describe the BushCo administration in one word, what would that word be?
May I suggest pre-emptive? First they gave us pre-emptive election results by not bothering to do recounts; then there were pre-emptive wars, pre-emptive homeland defense with crap shoots like the No-Fly lists, and now they're considering pre-emptive pardons of people who might have engaged in "counterterrorism" efforts. In other words, torturers of inmates at Guantanamo Bay or the goons who are listening in on our phone calls and reading our emails, among other things.
So many other words work too, like any synonym you can think of for words like these: