President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney provided joint testimony to the 9/11 Commission on April 29, 2004. “On the shoot-down order [for hijacked planes on 9/11], Bush backed Cheney’s account that he had obtained permission from the president first. None of the logs or notes taken that day confirmed such a call, but Bush […]
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4/29/2004
“The White House finally gave up on its restrictions to the [classified] Clinton documents [it had been withholding from the 9/11 Commission], and the president himself [Bush] submitted to questioning by all ten Commissioners in an informal meeting with Vice President [Dick] Cheney on April 29 [2004]. But in a signal of just how seriously […]
4/29/2004
“On April 29 [2004], the standoff in Fallujah [Iraq] was broken when General [James] Conway…brokered a deal in which responsibility for security in the city would be handed over to a new 1,000-man Iraqi militia, the Fallujah Protection Army (later named the Fallujah Brigade), headed by former Iraqi Army officers and staffed by former soldiers. […]
4/28/2004
“On April 28, 2004…the first pictures from Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq] became public. [General Counsel of the U.S. Navy Alberto] Mora said, ‘I felt saddened and dismayed. Everything we had warned against in Guantanamo had happened–but in a different setting.’ ” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 233 […]
4/28/2004
“…on April 28, 2004, the CBS News show 60 Minutes II aired the first graphic photos taken by American soldiers tormenting detainees in Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq]. …The photos depicted American soldiers grinning and giving thumbs-up signs as naked and hooded Iraqi prisoners were forced to perform simulated sex acts, wear leashes, pile into […]
4/28/2004
On April 28, 2004, “60 Minutes had shown the [Abu Ghraib] abuse photos. Within hours, pictures of naked Iraqi prisoners, taunted and sexually humiliated by the MPs [military police]–including two smirking women soldiers–appeared on front pages and satellite television networks worldwide.” – L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq, Page 350 […]
4/28/2004
” ‘Americans did this to an Iraqi prisoner,’ the CBS 60 Minutes II broadcast on the evening of Wednesday, April 28 [2004] began. On the screen was a photograph of a hooded man draped in a crude shift, standing precariously on a box with his arms outstretched. Wires attached to various parts of his body […]
4/28/2004
60 Minutes first broke the news of the Abu Ghraib scandal in Iraq in a report on April 28, 2004. “When [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld first learned that there were pictures extant of naked, humiliated, and terrified prisoners being abused by cheerful Americans, he said, according to an official who was present, ‘I didn’t […]
4/28/2004
“In a [April 28] 2004 interview, [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy] Douglas Feith explained that, after September 11, the [Bush] administration asked the question, ‘Was Iraq involved in 9/11? We found no hard link. What about Iraq-al Qaeda links in general? Well, there were some, but that wasn’t the essence of the Saddam Hussein threat. […]
4/26/2004
According to information in an April 26, 2004, Newsweek article: “A hint could be found in [President George W.] Bush’s ready explanation as to why he had not gone to his father [former President George H.W. Bush] for advice on Iraq. ‘You know,’ he said, ‘he is the wrong father to appeal to in terms […]