In testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said, regarding the Bush Administration’s approach to combating terrorism: ” ‘The problem was you didn’t have an approach against Al Qaeda because you didn’t have an approach against Afghanistan, and you didn’t have an approach against Afghanistan because you didn’t […]
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4/8/2004
“[I]n her statement and testimony before the [9/11] Commission on April 8 [2004], [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice repeatedly called the warnings in the [August 6, 2001] PDB [President’s Daily Briefing] ‘historical’ and devoid of any actionable intelligence that would have given the White House a prior warning of the 9/11 attacks.” – Peter Lance, […]
4/8/2004
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testified before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004. “In response to a question posed by Commissioner Bob Kerrey, Rice insisted that ‘the problem was that for a country that had not been attacked on its territory in a major way in almost 200 years, there were a lot of […]
4/8/2004
National Security Advisor Condoleezza “Rice stressed to the [9/11] Commission [in testimony on April 8, 2004] that ‘if we had known that an attack was coming against the United States, we would have moved heaven and earth to stop it.’ ” – Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 56 […]
4/8/2004
In testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was questioned about the August 6, 2001, PDB (President’s Daily Briefing). She said: ” ‘It did not warn of attacks inside the United States. It was historical information based on old reporting. There was no new threat information. And it […]
4/8/2004
On April 8, 2004, “After more than two and a half hours of testimony [before the 9/11 Commission], [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice was released. Incredibly, not one of the Commissioners asked her a single question about the performance of the White House on the day of 9/11.” – Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 181 […]
4/8/2004
In testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said, regarding the threat of Osama bin Laden: ” ‘I, myself, had written for an introduction to a volume on bioterrorism done at Stanford that I thought that we wanted not to wake up one day and find that Osama […]
4/7/2004
From Iraq, Coalition Provisional Authority leader L. Paul Bremer and Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez held a videoconference with the National Security Council on April 7, 2004. President Bush “declared that [radical cleric Moqtada al-] Sadr’s Mahdi Army was a ‘hostile force’ and that they could not let a single radical cleric change the course of […]
4/5/2004
“On 5 April [2004], Dan Senor, the CPA’s [Coalition Provisional Authority’s] spokesman, announced that an Iraqi judge had issued an arrest warrant for the ‘Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’ in connection with the 2003 murder of ‘another cleric’ at a mosque in Najaf. Senor, and later [Deputy Director of Coalition Operations for Combined Joint Task Force-Seven] […]
4/5/2004
“Fallujah [Iraq] was divided into two sectors, northern and southern, and two Marine battalions would take each sector. By 5 April [2004], the Marines’ operation was well underway, but the insurgents put up stiff resistance. …On 9 April, the Coalition declared a unilateral ceasefire. The US Marines, having initially opposed the operation, were incensed. They […]