The Senate Intelligence Committee’s July 9, 2004 report of the CIA’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) published in October 2002, said the aluminum tubes Iraq allegedly tried to buy from China were “cited as evidence of Iraq’s determination to build nuclear weapons. …The Department of Energy in particular argued in great detail that the tubes were […]
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7/9/2004
On July 9, 2004, “the National Intelligence Council issued a paper, still classified, which warned of the possibility that Iraq would collapse into civil war. The best-case scenario, the council said, would be a ‘tenuous stability’; rosier hopes were dropped from the paper as unrealistic.” – Thomas Powers, The Military Error, Page 51 […]
7/9/2004
“The [July 9] 2004 report on prewar intelligence of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said that the CIA’s conclusions in the October [1] 2002 NIE [National Intelligence Estimate] classified report on Iraq’s illicit weapons were ‘either overstated, or were not supported by, the underlying intelligence reporting.’ (The committee gave, as examples, the CIA saying […]
7/9/2004
“The initial report by the Senate Intelligence Committee, published in July [9] 2004, severely criticized the CIA for overestimating the danger posed by Saddam’s WMD programs. It also concluded that there had been no significant ties between Saddam and Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist network.” – Con Coughlin, Saddam: His Rise and Fall, Page 374 […]
7/9/2004
According to a July 10, 2004, article in The New York Times, on July 9, “the Intelligence Committee would issue a scathing report condemning the major findings in the [October 1, 2002 National Intelligence] assessment as unsubstantiated by the CIA’s own reporting and [CIA Director George] Tenet himself would term it ‘flawed analysis.’ But at […]
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
The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq, delivered July 7, 2004, “put the greatest portion of the blame for the intelligence disaster on the doorstep of CIA Director George J. Tenet, who decided, after having viewed drafts of the Senate report the month before, […]
7/7/2004
On July 7, 2004, General Counsel of the U.S. Navy, Alberto Mora “finished writing an extraordinary twenty-two page memo chronicling his wide-ranging and persistent efforts in the winter of 2002 to push the Pentagon back from an official policy of cruelty [regarding detainee interrogation]. The memo…was marked secret and kept from public view.” – Jane […]
7/7/2004
From information in the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s July 7, 2004, Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq: “In a statement where [Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Pat] Roberts [R-KS] was joined by Republican senators Christopher S. Bond [MO] and Orrin G. Hatch [UT], he wrote: ‘In an interview with Committee […]