Responding to a reporter’s question on September 17, 2003, President Bush said: ” ‘…we’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September 11th.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 224 […]
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9/17/2003
” ‘We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the Sept. 11’ attacks, [President] Bush said at the start of a meeting with congressional lawmakers discussing new energy legislation [on September 17, 2003]. But, he added, ‘There’s no question that Saddam Hussein had Al Qaeda ties.’ ” – Wendell Goler, Liza Porteus, and […]
9/17/2003
” ‘We’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the eleventh,’ [President] Bush said prior to a cabinet meeting on September 17, 2003. ‘Now, what the vice president [Dick Cheney] said [on Meet the Press, three days earlier] was–is that [Saddam] has been involved with al Qaeda and [Abu Musab] al-Zarqawi, an […]
9/17/2003
Regarding Vice President Dick Cheney’s comment that ‘we don’t know’ about a potential involvement of Iraq in 9/11, columnist Joshua Micah Marshall wrote, in The Hill newspaper on September 17, 2003: ” ‘By any reasonable standard, that’s a lie. …American intelligence and law enforcement have been investigating the Sept. 11 attacks for more than two […]
9/16/2003
“…on September 16 [2003], the CIA provided the Justice Department with a memo outlining the results of its inquiry and requested that the FBI open a criminal investigation of the [Valerie] Plame leak. The CIA was asking the FBI to start an inquiry that would target the White House.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, […]
9/16/2003
“At a Pentagon news conference [on September 16, 2003], [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld was asked about a poll that indicated nearly 70% of respondents believed the Iraqi leader [Saddam Hussein] probably was personally involved [in 9/11]. ‘I’ve not seen any indication that would lead me to believe that I could say that,’ Rumsfeld said. […]
9/16/2003
A Boston Globe article on September 16, 2003, discussed Vice President Dick Cheney’s appearance on Meet the Press two days earlier. ” ‘Vice President Dick Cheney, anxious to defend the [Bush] White House foreign policy amid ongoing violence in Iraq, stunned intelligence analysts and even members of his own administration this week by failing to […]
9/15/2003
In a 42-page treatise in September 2003, titled Jihadi Iraq, Hopes and Dangers, al Qaeda Saudi cell operative Yusef al-Ayeri, aka Swift Sword, called for a strategy of isolating the U.S. by attacking its allies. ” ‘We think that the Spanish government could not tolerate more than two, maximum three blows, after which it will […]
9/15/2003
“…in a typical U.S. Army ‘comedy of errors,’ its intelligence officers were shocked to discover that many of the cryptologic linguists that they had in Iraq could speak Korean, French, Spanish, and other languages–but not Arabic. How they ended up in Iraq in the first place remains a question that army intelligence officials do not […]
9/14/2003
On September 14, 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press hosted by Tim Russert. ” ‘One of the things to keep in mind,’ Cheney told Russert, ‘is that Halliburton is a unique kind of company. There are very few companies out there that have the combination of very large engineering construction […]