On July 22, 2004, “The 9/11 Commission let loose with a…sweeping indictment of a breakdown in the federal government–the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon, the National Security Council, the Federal Aviation Administration, Congress–that left the nation vulnerable to attacks that were a shock but ‘should not have come as a surprise.’ The executive summary of […]
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7/22/2004
At a press conference for the release of the 9/11 Commission report on July 22, 2004, “Commission co-chairman Thomas Kean confirmed the existence of Iraq-al Qaeda ties. ‘There was no question in our minds that there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda,’ he declared.” – Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Page 440 […]
7/22/2004
In its section on “Government Response to the Threats” in the 9/11 Commission’s final Report, which was issued on July 22, 2004, although the Bush administration was warned of a terrorist threat, “The Sept. 11 attacks fell into the void between the foreign and domestic threats … No one was looking for a foreign threat […]
7/22/2004
The 9/11 Commission Report, released on July 22, 2004, said that the U.S. government “was hobbled by ‘failures of imagination, policy, capabilities, and management.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 211 […]
7/22/2004
“In July [22] 2004, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report, along with twenty-four recommendations. …The White House adopted twenty-two of the twenty-four recommendations. The call for ‘humane treatment’ [of detainees] was one of the two that the Bush Administration explicitly rejected.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Pages 280-281 […]
7/22/2004
The 9/11 Commission Report was released on July 22, 2004. For the 604-page book, the Commission’s “staff had reportedly interviewed more than 1,200 people in ten countries, and reviewed more than two and one half million pages of documents. Yet the final report had some glaring omissions–among them its utter failure to tell the story […]
7/22/2004
According to author Peter Lance: “The 9/11 Commission Report published in July [22] 2004 and later nominated for a National Book Award, concluded that the original World Trade Center bombing cell was made up of a ‘loosely based group of Sunni Islamists;’ further, that the 9/11 plot had originated not with [World Trade Center bomber] […]
7/20/2004
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice “testified to the Sept. 11 panel [9/11 Commission] that she did not recall being briefed on the [15 page intelligence] report [written by the Clinton Administration] during the transition period to the Bush administration, and she said she did not read it until after the Sept. 11 attacks, when Vice […]
7/18/2004
According to a deposition on July 18, 2004, when Brigadier General Janis Karpinski mentioned that there were innocent people being held at a detention center in Iraq, “Maj. Gen. [Walter] Wojdakowski, the second most senior general in Iraq at the time [replied]: ‘I don’t care if we have 15,000 innocent civilians, we are winning the […]
7/15/2004
Former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis observed in the New York Review of Books article, ‘Making Torture Legal,’ on July 15, 2004: “The Bush legal team…spent an extraordinary amount of effort figuring out how to steer top administration officials around criminal conduct. Their ‘memos,’ Lewis wrote, ‘read like the advice of a mob lawyer […]