“The Knight Ridder newspaper group reported today [October 12, 2001] that senior Pentagon officials authorized [former CIA director R. James] Woolsey to fly to London last month [September 2001] on a government plane, accompanied by Justice and Defense Department officials, on a mission to gather evidence linking Hussein to the Sept. 11 attacks.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Elaine Sciolino and Patrick E. Tyler, “Some Pentagon Officials and Advisers Seek to Oust Iraq’s Leader in War’s Next Phase,” The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2001