“On July 9, 2004, the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a blistering 511-page report that proved, definitively, that the information Congress had relied on in support of the invasion of Iraq, was ‘either overstated or…not supported by the underlying intelligence’ when it came to allegations that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Delivering 117 separate […]
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7/9/2004
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSIC) Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, dated July 7, 2004, “noted that the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) ‘focused its terrorist activities on western interests, particularly against the U.S. and Israel.’ According to the SSIC report: ‘The CIA summarized nearly 50 intelligence reports as […]
7/9/2004
“As the CIA noted at the time [in the July 9, 2004, Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq], ‘[I]t would be difficult for al-Qaida to maintain an active, long-term presence in Iraq without alerting the authorities or obtaining their acquiescence.’ ” – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 446 […]
7/9/2004
“On July 9, 2004, the FBI’s Office of Inspections distributed an e-mail asking its agents who were stationed at Guantanamo whether they had witnessed, ‘Aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques…which were not consistent with FBI interview policy/guidelines.’ More than two-dozen agents responded that they observed numerous instances of detainee abuse. One FBI agent wrote that, […]
7/9/2004
“[O]n July 9 [2004], the Senate intelligence committee released a devastating 511-page report that chronicled the missteps, miscalculations, and shoddy judgments of the U.S. intelligence community prior to the war. The report concluded that the CIA and other agencies had succumbed to unfounded ‘groupthink’ assumptions in determining that there had been weapons of mass destruction […]
7/8/2004
“…Homeland Security head Tom Ridge had amped up fears just days earlier [in early July 2004] by announcing that al Qaeda was planning a major attack on the United States this year. ‘What we know about this more recent information is that it is being directed from the seniormost levels of the Al Qaeda operation,’ […]
7/8/2004
“…Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security [Tom Ridge] warned on July 8 [2004], that al-Qaeda was planning a large terrorist attack on the United States ‘in an effort to disrupt the democratic process.’ “ – Ian S. Lustick, Trapped in the War on Terror, Page 107 […]
7/7/2004
According to the U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, published on July 7, 2004: ” ‘After 1998, the CIA had no dedicated unilateral sources in Iraq reporting on Iraq’s nuclear, biological, and chemical program; indeed, the CIA had only a handful of Iraqi assets […]
7/7/2004
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released the Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq on July 7, 2004. “The unanimous 511-page report concluded that the intelligence put forth by the agency [CIA] to justify going to war was both unfounded and unreasonable. It painted a picture of a dysfunctional organization […]
7/7/2004
According to information from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, delivered July 7, 2004, “With regard to the most important intelligence assessments, such as the question of whether Saddam Hussein actually possessed mobile biological-weapons laboratories, sought aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons, or was […]