“A study produced by Tel Aviv University’s Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies [in November 2003] indicates that Israel’s vaunted intelligence services could find no indication that Iraq possessed banned weapons, despite their location and access to Middle East sources. ‘On the eve of the war [March 2003],’ said the report, ‘Israeli intelligence on Iraqi capabilities […]
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3/15/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “473. Mr Rycroft replied to Mr Brummell on 15 March: ‘This is to confirm that it is indeed the Prime Minister’s unequivocal view that Iraq is in further material breach of its obligations, as in OP4 [operative paragraph 4] of UNSCR [United Nations Security […]
3/15/2003
“[T]he [U.K.] Prime Minister [Tony Blair] gave his unequivocal view in writing on 15 March [2003] that the requirements of Resolution 1441 [which gave Saddam a final opportunity to comply with disarmament of WMD] were being breached.” – Clare Short, An Honourable Deception?, Page 254 […]
3/15/2003
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “272. In a declaration on 15 March, France, with Germany and Russia, attempted to secure support in the Security Council for countries in support of action.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: […]
3/15/2003
“In March 2003, the government raised the national alert level to orange for the third time. Authorities feared that the imminent American invasion of Iraq would provoke attacks by ‘allied or sympathetic terrorist organizations, most notably the al Qaeda network.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Brian Michael […]
3/14/2003
Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel John “Yoo’s March [14] 2003 opinion…declared that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming, and other crimes did not apply to the military interrogators in Guantanamo. …Among the practices the memo discussed as arguably legal were gouging a prisoner’s eyes out, dousing him with ‘scalding water, corrosive acid, or […]
3/14/2003
“On April 1, 2008, nearly four years after The Washington Post first revealed the existence of the Torture Memo, the Pentagon released a March [14] 2003 memo that went further than the original 2002 memo in arguing that the wartime powers of the executive as commander in chief of the armed forces are not subject […]
3/14/2003
“On March 14 [2003], Senator Jay Rockefeller IV [D-WV], the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote a letter to FBI chief Robert Mueller asking for an investigation because ‘the fabrication of these [Niger yellowcake] documents may be part of a larger deception campaign aimed at manipulating public opinion and foreign policy regarding Iraq.’ […]
3/14/2003
On March 14, 2003, “[Counterterrorism Adviser Rand] Beers quietly tendered his resignation, something almost unheard-of for a senior member of the National Security Council staff in a time of war. Beers recalls his thinking at the time: ‘We were taking our eye off bin Laden and we were going to pay for it, both with respect to […]
3/14/2003
On March 14, 2003, Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo sent a memo to General Counsel William Haynes titled, ‘Military Interrogations of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside of the United States.’ It “states that the Fifth and Eighth Amendments do not hold for alien enemy combatants held outside of the U.S.; […]