“Daniel Coleman, the FBI special agent whose knowledge of al-Qaeda was unrivaled, says that in August 2002 someone called him from [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s office…and asked him ‘to review everything’ on Iraq and the al-Qaeda connection. Coleman recalls: ‘We had already reviewed the material twice. Again we came up empty.’ Coleman…subsequently told the staffer from Cheney’s office, ‘If you came to me for a casus belli you are not going to get it.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 139