“On September 3 [2002], [Chief of Staff Andrew] Card gathered [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice, [Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen] Hadley, [Vice presidential Chief of Staff] Scooter Libby, White House communications chief Dan Bartlett, and others in the Situation Room for the first meeting of what would be called the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG, whose purpose was to promote the war.”
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 191