In his testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 13, 2004, Attorney General John Ashcroft blamed the ‘wall’ for keeping information separate from various intelligence agencies. A member of the commission commented: ” ‘I have here a memorandum dated August 6th [2001] from [Ashcroft’s deputy] Larry Thompson, the fifth line of which reads, *The 1995 […]
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4/13/2004
The 9/11 Commission staff made a report based on the April 13, 2004, hearing, which summarized the way data was gathered by the FBI: “Information was gathered to prosecute individual cases, not to be widely disseminated, analyzed, and acted upon. A piece of evidence was a clue to a particular case, not a dot to […]
4/13/2004
FBI Director Louis Freeh told the 9/11 Commission on April 13, 2004: “because terrorism was not a national priority before September 11…the FBI did not get adequate resources or legal authorities to go after al Qaeda… After 9/11, Freeh argued, the FBI got these resources and legal authorities because Americans had made combating terrorism a […]
4/13/2004
In his testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 13, 2004, Attorney General John Ashcroft said: ” ‘The single greatest structural cause for September 11 was the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents. Government erected this wall. And before September 11, government was blinded by this wall.’ ” – John Ashcroft, Never Again, […]
4/13/2004
Echoing National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice’s comments a few days earlier, President Bush said, on April 13, 2004: ” ‘If I had any inkling whatsoever that people were going to fly airplanes into buildings, we would have moved heaven and earth to save the country.’ ” – Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 13 […]
4/13/2004
“On April 13 [2004], the New York Times had published a front-page article about a Pakistani scientist named A.Q. Khan, considered the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, who had confessed in February to selling nuclear weapons expertise and equipment on the black market. According to the story, Khan told Pakistani interrogators that he had visited […]
4/12/2004
During as Press Conference with the Egyptian President, “Secondly, the situation in Iraq has improved. But you’re right, it was a tough week, because of — there was lawlessness and gangs that were trying to take the law in their own hands. These were people that were trying to make a statement prior to the […]
4/11/2004
On April 11, 2004, President Bush said, regarding 9/11: ” ‘Had I known there was going to be an attack on America I would have moved mountains to stop the attack.’ ” – David Johnston and Jim Dwyer, “Pre-9/11 Files Show Warnings Were More Dire and Persistent,” The New York Times, April 18, 2004 […]
4/10/2004
On April 10, 2004, “The [Bush] administration finally declassified the entire August 6 [2001] PDB [President’s Daily Brief]…the most incriminating document of the period…” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 238 […]
4/10/2004
On April 10, 2004, “the full text of the August 6 [2001] PDB [President’s Daily Briefing] (with several small redactions) was made public.” – Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 181 […]