“General [Ricardo] Sanchez told CNN [on July 27, 2003] that Iraq ‘is what I would call a terrorist magnet…and that will prevent the American people from having to go through attacks back in the United States.’ “ – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 156 […]
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7/27/2003
“David Kay, the chief [CIA weapons] inspector [in Iraq], came to the White House and met with the President [Bush] on July 27 [2003]. Kay told the President that it was likely that Saddam had a latent [WMD] capability that he could have mobilized when the pressure from the international community lessened. There was still […]
7/27/2003
Commander of the ground forces in Iraq “General Ricardo Sanchez said in a July [27] 2003 interview with CNN that foreign fighters were entering Iraq ‘from various places. This is what I would call a terrorist magnet, where America, being present here in Iraq, creates a target of opportunity, if you will. But this is […]
7/25/2003
“On July 25 [2003], the White House deletes twenty-eight pages in a nine-hundred-page congressional report on 9/11. According to Senator Bob Graham, the reason for the censorship was simple. ‘They are protecting a foreign government,’ he said. The government in question was clearly Saudi Arabia.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page […]
7/24/2003
Regarding the July 24, 2003, Final Declassified Report of the Joint Inquiry, which investigated the intelligence failures that led to 9/11: “While [CIA Director George] Tenet had spoken of ‘war’ against bin Laden and the CIA had developed a secret strategy known cryptically as ‘the Plan’ for dealing with him, ‘the CIA’s actual efforts to […]
7/24/2003
Regarding the July 24, 2003, Final Declassified Report of the Joint Inquiry, which investigated the intelligence failures that led to 9/11: “Although relevant information…regarding the [9/11] attacks was available to the Intelligence Community prior to September 11, 2001, the Community too often failed to focus on that information and consider and appreciate its collective significance.” […]
7/24/2003
“The U.S. Agency for International Development and Bearing Point [business consulting firm] signed the company’s first Iraq contract on July 24, 2003. …The company specifies changes in every sector of the Iraqi economy–from trade rules to banking and financial services, to public services, agriculture, housing, media, elections, and the structure of the government itself. It […]
7/24/2003
“The Final Declassified Report of the Joint Inquiry [released July 24, 2003], the first congressional investigation into the 9/11 attacks…notes twelve separate reports in the seven years before 9/11 suggesting that terrorists might use airplanes as weapons.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Pages 189-190 […]
7/24/2003
“Within months of the 9/11 attack, Congress announced that a joint panel combining the House and Senate Intelligence Committees would investigate the biggest mass murder in U.S. history. Known as the ‘Joint Inquiry,’ the committees spent ten months covering thirty years of intelligence failures. They left out whole sections of the government–including the executive branch–and […]
7/24/2003
“Senator Bob Graham, a Democratic candidate for president [from Florida] and a member of the original investigation [the Joint Inquiry into the truth behind 9/11], charged that the Bush administration’s apparent unwillingness to declassify the Joint Inquiry’s full report amounted to a ‘cover-up.’ By July 24 [2003], the Administration had negotiated a deal with the […]