“A report in the Los Angeles Times on 10 April, 2005 on the reconstruction efforts described how ‘Iraqi officials have crippled scores of water, sewage and electrical plants refurbished with U.S. funds by failing to maintain and operate them properly, wasting millions of American taxpayer dollars in the process.’ ” – Ali A. Allawi, The […]
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4/10/2005
According to a Los Angeles Times article on April 10, 2005: “USAID’s [United States Agency for International Development’s] director for the water sector, Mark Oviatt, said, ‘This has been my biggest problem and concern in Iraq. Americans are investing hundreds of millions in Iraq. The capacity is not there to maintain it.’ ” – Ali […]
4/6/2005
“On April 6, 2005, the National Assembly chose Jalal Talabani as President [of Iraq]. On the following day, Talabani designated Ibrahim al-Jaafari to form his cabinet.” – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 396 […]
4/2/2005
President George W. Bush: “This week, I also directed Homeland Security Advisor Fran Townsend to oversee the interagency review of the commission’s findings and ensure that concrete action is taken. The commission’s report delivers a sharp critique of the way intelligence has been collected and analyzed against some of the most difficult intelligence targets, like […]
4/1/2005
“Overall, [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld presented a picture of a defense chief who didn’t bother to read half the memos that crossed his desk and generally handed off responsibility to others: [From Rumsfeld’s interview with the Department of Defense’s Deputy Inspector General for Investigations, on April 1, 2005] ‘Day in and out I rely […]
3/31/2005
” ‘In front of the whole world, the United States government asserted that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted his nuclear weapons program, had biological weapons and mobile biological weapon production facilities and was producing chemical weapons,’ the Robb-Silberman commission noted six months later [on March 31, 2005]. ‘And not one bit of it could be confirmed […]
3/31/2005
“The Robb-Silberman Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction reported in March [31] 2005 that ‘hundreds of serious press leaks’ about our [intelligence] collection capabilities ‘have significantly impaired U.S. capabilities against our hardest targets’ and done ‘grave harm to our national security.’ “ – Jack Goldsmith, The Terror […]
3/31/2005
“[A] section of the findings of the presidential commission chaired by Laurence H. Silberman and Charles S. Robb, released March 31, 2005… report that the intelligence community was ‘dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction,’ … It pinned the blame for this failure on the community’s ‘inability […]
3/31/2005
According to the Silberman-Robb Commission’s report, which was released on March 31, 2005: ” ‘The Intelligence Community fundamentally misjudged the status of Iraq’s BW [biological weapons] programs. …the central basis for the Intelligence Community’s pre-war assessments about Iraq’s BW program was the reporting of a single human source, Curveball. This single source, whose reporting came […]
3/31/2005
According to the Silberman-Robb Commission’s report, which was released on March 31, 2005: ” ‘We found no evidence that the doubts [of the reliability of Iraqi informant Curveball] were conveyed by CIA leadership to policymakers in general–or Secretary [of State Colin] Powell in particular. …It is unclear precisely how and why these serious concerns about […]