According to a State Department transcript, on December 5, 2005, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, regarding accusations of the torture of detainees in secret prisons: ” ‘The United States does not permit, tolerate or condone torture under any circumstances… The United States does not transport and has not transported detainees from one country to […]
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12/5/2005
“A December [5] 2005 report card issued by the bipartisan leaders of the former 9/11 Commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, gave the government an F in categories such as air passenger prescreening, the allocation of homeland security funds according to need rather than pork, and the securing of radio frequencies for emergency workers such […]
12/5/2005
On December 5, 2005, “Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reiterated, ‘The United States has not transported anyone, and will not transport anyone, to a country when we believe he will be tortured.’ “ – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 100 […]
12/5/2005
Following the completion of the 9/11 Commission Report, its chairmen, “former Congressman Lee Hamilton and former New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean now lead the 9/11 Public Discourse Project. …In late [December 5] 2005 it condemned the president [Bush] and the Congress for not implementing all of its original recommendations and issued a ‘report card’ evaluating […]
12/5/2005
Then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, in a press statement on December 5, 2005: ” ‘For decades, the United States and other countries have used *renditions* to transport terrorist suspects from the country where they are captured to their home country or to other countries where they can be questioned, held or brought to justice.’ […]
12/4/2005
On December 4, 2005, “In joint appearances on radio and television news programs [former 9/11 Commission chairmen and current leaders of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project Thomas] Kean and [Lee] Hamilton decried what they viewed as a lack of attention to the threat of terrorism in Washington. ‘It’s not a priority for the government right […]
12/1/2005
“On December 1, 2005, during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who as White House Counsel had previously abetted denials of detainee rights and protections under the laws of war, stated that what happened at Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq] was ‘shocking,’ ‘horrific,’ and not allowed. Despite his denial […]
11/30/2005
" 'Victory,' President Bush declared to the Naval Academy on November 30 [2005], would come 'when the terrorists and Saddamists can no longer threaten Iraq's democracy, when the Iraqi security forces can provide for the safety of their own citizens, and when Iraq is not a safe haven for terrorists to plot new attacks on […]
11/30/2005
“As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq. The articles, written by U.S. military ‘information operations’ troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with […]
11/30/2005
President "Bush opened a series of five speeches on the war [in Iraq] on November 30 [2005] at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis [Maryland]. [National Security Council staffer Peter] Feaver helped draft a thirty-five page 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq' mainly to prove that Bush had one. Feaver originally used the word 'success,' […]