In the January-February 2004 issue of Mother Jones, State Department intelligence analyst Greg Theilmann said: ” ‘The Al Qaeda connection and nuclear weapons issue were the only two ways that you could link Iraq to an imminent security threat to the U.S. And the [Bush] administration was grossly distorting the intelligence on both.’ “ [The […]
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1/15/2004
“A [January] 2004 study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace also detected a politically driven shift in intelligence assessments in 2002. It discovered a yawning gap between what was claimed and what was known, especially the ‘alliance’ between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. The endowment reported: ‘There was and is no solid evidence […]
1/15/2004
In January 2004, “Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the ‘top member of Al Qaeda’ whose statements became the basis for the [Bush] administration’s assertions that Saddam’s regime provided biological and chemical weapons training to al Qaeda members, recants his earlier claims.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Frank Rich, The Greatest […]
1/15/2004
“Even as late as January 15, 2004, U.S. Vice President [Dick] Cheney, referring to the threat of a terrorist attack in the United States, is reported to have said that the battle [against terrorism], like the Cold War, could last generations and that a new kind of mobilization was needed, requiring more overseas bases so […]
1/15/2004
“In January 2004 American forces had captured an al Qaeda courier who was carrying a letter from [al Qaeda in Iraq leader] Abu Musab al Zarqawi to al Qaeda leaders. The letter detailed Zarqawi’s plan to foment sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni in Iraq by ‘targeting and striking [Shiite] religious, political, and military symbols’ […]
1/13/2004
“On January 13, 2004, Sergeant (SGT) Joseph M. Darby, a twenty-three-year-old U.S. Army MP [Military Police] who worked in the office at Abu Ghraib, left a note with a CD containing photographs of prisoner abuses on the desk of a Criminal Investigation Division (CID) agent. Darby received the material from Corporal (CPL) Charles Graner and […]
1/12/2004
In an interview with Time magazine on January 12, 2004, former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said, regarding the presence of WMD in Iraq: ” ‘In the 23 months I was there [in the Bush Administration], I never saw anything that I would characterize as evidence of weapons of mass destruction… There were allegations and assertions […]
1/9/2004
According to a January 9, 2004 article in The New York Times: “Only in January 2004 did Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, long the only member of the Bush cabinet to enjoy the trust of foreign governments, finally acknowledge that he had ‘not seen smoking gun, concrete evidence’ backing up administration assertions and insinuations […]
1/9/2004
“In January [9] 2004, when Vice President [Dick] Cheney was asked by a reporter from the Rocky Mountain News about the ties between al Qaeda and Iraq, he answered by saying that the [November 24, 2003] Weekly Standard article [which exposed a classified memo full of ‘uncoordinated’ material from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas […]
1/8/2004
At a news conference on January 8, 2004, Secretary of State Colin Powell was asked, if given another chance, would he have ‘rephrased’ his speech to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003. ” ‘No,’ Powell replied firmly. ‘I knew exactly the circumstances under which I was presenting that speech…the whole world would be […]