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, […]
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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 […]
4/13/2004
“On April 13, 2004, shortly after the Fallujah cease-fire, President Bush addressed the nation in a prime-time press conference. He began with a brief statement about the situation in Iraq. …’The violence we have seen is a power grab by these extreme and ruthless elements. It’s not a civil war. It’s not a popular uprising. […]
4/13/2004
“At a prime-time news conference in the East Room on April 13 [2004], [President] Bush stumbled when John Dickerson of Time magazine asked him to name his biggest mistake since September 11. …’I wish you would have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it,’ Bush said, pausing to […]
4/13/2004
The President Addresses the Nation in Prime Time Press Conference. “What else — part of the question — oh, oil revenues. Well, the oil revenues are — they’re bigger than we thought they would be at this point in time. I mean, one year after the liberation of Iraq, the revenues of the oil stream […]
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 […]