On January 26, 2006, “the radical Islamist party of Hamas won a landslide victory in Palestinian legislative elections over the moderate, secular leadership of President Mahmoud Abbas and the governing Fatah party. The outcome gave Hamas–considered a terrorist organization by the United States, Israel, and the European Union–the right to form a new government and […]
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1/26/2006
President Bush was “asked about the validity of recent news reports that the CIA was using the practice of rendition to send terror suspects to overseas countries to be tortured as part of the war on terrorism. Also making headlines lately is the possibility that the CIA operated secret prisons in various countries overseas. ‘I […]
1/26/2006
President Bush on the reports by the Humans Rights Watch and Amnesty International criticizing the US on their handling of terrorist suspects, “I haven’t seen the report, but if they’re saying we tortured people, they’re wrong. Period… No American will be allowed to torture another human being anywhere in the world. “ – Transcript, “President […]
1/23/2006
During an interview that appeared on Frontline on January 23, 2006, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke said: ” ‘CIA had totally missed it. …We had bombed everything we could bomb in Iraq [during the 1991 Gulf War], but missed an enormous nuclear-weapons development facility. Didn’t know it was there, never dropped one bomb on it. […]
1/23/2006
Regarding the Terrorist Surveillance Program, “NSA [National Security Agency] Director Mike Hayden later said publicly [on January 23, 2006] that the program had been ‘successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States’ and that it was his ‘professional judgment that we would have detected some of the 9/11 al Qaeda operatives in the […]
1/23/2006
Regarding the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) warrantless wiretapping program, NSA chief “General [Michael] Hayden has observed [on January 23, 2006], ‘Had this program been in effect prior to 9/11, it is my professional judgment that we would have detected some of the 9/11 al Qaeda operatives in the United States and we would have identified […]
1/22/2006
On January 22, 2006, “The Council of Europe issues a report condemning both the U.S. and European countries for the practice of ‘extraordinary rendition,’ referring to the practice as the ‘ *outsourcing* of torture.’ ” – M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Page xlv […]
1/20/2006
Referring to the CIA’s perceived intelligence shortcomings prior to the 9/11 attacks in an interview on Frontline on January 20, 2006, CIA Agent Gary Schroen said: ” ‘We didn’t do enough. We didn’t penetrate bin Laden’s inner circle; we still haven’t. So, yeah, there was a failure.’ ” – Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Page […]
1/20/2006
On January 20, 2006, presidential Advisor Karl Rove said: ” ‘Republicans have a post-9/11 view of the world. And Democrats have a pre-9/11 view of the world. That doesn’t make them unpatriotic, not at all. But it does make them wrong–deeply and profoundly and consistently wrong.’ “ – Ian S. Lustick, Trapped in the War […]
1/19/2006
“In his Fox News interview [on January 19, 2006] Vice President [Dick] Cheney did not give an inch on the necessity of the NSA [National Security Agency] spying or of the war itself. ‘When we look back on this, ten years hence,’ he insisted, ‘we will [see that we] have fundamentally changed the course of […]