A June 29, 2004, editorial in The Los Angeles Times said, regarding the Supreme Court’s rulings the previous day in Rasul v. Bush and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld: ” ‘It’s hard to see what is left of American freedom if the government has the authority to make anyone on its soil–citizen or non-citizen–disappear and then rule […]
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6/29/2004
According to The New York Times on June 29, 2004: “William F. Buckley Jr., widely acknowledged as the founder of the modern conservative movement, wrote of the Iraq war, ‘If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war.’ ” – Al […]
6/28/2004
“On June 28, 2004, in a secret ceremony in Baghdad, the invasion and occupation of Iraq by the United States was officially brought to an end. Held two days ahead of schedule to confound insurgents who threatened attacks, the handover of authority from the Americans to the Iraqis took place without a hitch. …It was […]
6/28/2004
On June 28, 2004, FBI Agent George “Piro probed Saddam about his putative connections to al-Qaeda. The former Iraqi dictator dismissed the idea, explaining that bin Laden was a zealot with whom his regime did not cooperate.” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 150 […]
6/28/2004
In an interview that ran in Time magazine on June 28, 2004, former President Bill Clinton said: ” ‘After 9/11, let’s be fair here, if you had been President, you’d think, Well, this fellow bin Laden just turned these three airplanes full of fuel into weapons of mass destruction, right?…Well, my first responsibility now is […]
6/28/2004
“Under enormous pressure, the U.S. Supreme Court finally reacted [in the case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld], ruling on June 28, 2004, that fourteen Guantánamo detainees could file writs in U.S. courts and thereby challenge their indefinite detention. It was a landmark decision, although it had taken nearly two and a half years for the Court […]
6/28/2004
“In a stunning rebuke to [President] Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s grandiose position on executive power, on June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the lawyers for the Guantanamo detainees in two separate landmark cases. …Guantanamo Bay was not beyond the reach of U.S. law. …the executive branch could not hold […]
6/28/2004
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “End of Occupation: inauguration of Iraqi Interim Government (Prime Minister Allawi).” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, June 28, 2004 […]
6/28/2004
In the Supreme Court decision in Rasul v. Bush on June 28, 2004, which ruled 6-3 in favor of the Guantanamo detainees, “Justice Sandra Day O’Connor…famously scolded the White House for providing the prisoners with no legal process at all. ‘A state of war is not a blank check,’ she emphasized, and the commander in […]
6/28/2004
FBI Special Agent George Piro and Saddam Hussein discussed the Iraq-al Qaeda relationship on June 28, 2004. Saddam “stated the Iraqi government did not cooperate with BIN LADEN. SSA [Supervisory Special Agent] Piro asked HUSSEIN ‘why not’ since Iraq and BIN LADEN had the same enemies, United States and Saudi Arabia. SSA Piro then cited […]