In his private interview with the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, former President Bill Clinton “offered no apologies for his failure to kill Osama bin Laden, because, he said, he had done everything within his power to accomplish it. ‘I wanted to see him dead,’ Clinton said…” – Philip Shenon, The Commission, Page 305 […]
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4/8/2004
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice pointed out in her April 8, 2004, testimony before the 9/11 Commission that the nation was not prepared to take action against al Qaeda before 9/11: ” ‘Until there is a catastrophic event that forces people to think differently, that forces people to overcome all customs and old culture and […]
4/8/2004
In testimony before the 9/11 Commission on April 8, 2004, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said that President “Bush was warned a month before the Sept. 11 terror attacks that the F.B.I. had detected ‘suspicious activity’ that suggested terrorists might be planning a domestic hijacking. She said he was also told that the bureau was […]
4/8/2004
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 […]
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 […]
4/7/2004
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 […]