“On December 6 [2002], in a dramatic shake-up of [President] Bush’s economic team, Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill and Lawrence Lindsay, Bush’s top economic adviser, resigned under pressure, Lindsay after having said the cost of the war could be as much as $200 billion, far above the administration’s official estimate of $50 billion to $60 billion.” […]
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12/6/2002
According to a declassified CIA analytic report on December 6, 2002: “Al-Qa’ida uses fraudulently acquired Saudi passports to document its operatives and facilitate international travel [redacted] Some of the passports are stolen [redacted] issued to terrorists under false pretense. [Redacted] Forgers fraudulently issue or alter these passports to create false identities, impersonate other citizens, and […]
12/5/2002
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s consultant, Steve Herbits, told Rumsfeld on December 5, 2002, regarding Iraq: ” ‘…you are in the unique position of being the sole person who could lose the president’s [Bush’s] reelection for him if you don’t get something straightened out.’ …Herbits continued, ‘…you have got to focus on the post-Iraq planning. […]
12/5/2002
“White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said on December 5, 2002: ‘The president of the United States [Bush] and the secretary of defense [Donald Rumsfeld] would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis […]
12/5/2002
“…during the late November to early December [2002] time frame, two Afghan detainees were beaten to death with batons. When word reached CENTCOM [Central Command] on December 14, 2002, GEN [Tommy] Franks directed LTG [Lieutenant General] Dan McNeil, the commander on the ground in Afghanistan, to conduct a full investigation into the deaths.” [The 5th […]
12/5/2002
“In early December 2002, FBI officials who had participated in some interrogations at Guantanamo complained to [General Geoffrey] Miller that the methods used against prisoners at Guantanamo were unlawful. But Miller was not receptive. That led FBI officials to conclude that senior Bush administration officials and Rumsfeld were making decisions about interrogations in particular.” [The […]
12/3/2002
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, on December 3, 2002: ” ‘If you go back and look at the history of inspections in Iraq, the reality is that things have been found not by discovery, but through defectors.’ ” – Tony Karon, “What Next in Iraq?,” Time, Dec. 6, 2002 […]
12/2/2002
“In October 2002, Gitmo’s [Guantanamo’s] commander [Major General Michael Dunlavey] sent a request forward, which [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld approved on December 2 [2002], to use coercive interrogation methods on [alleged 20th hijacker Mohamed al] Kahtani. Rumsfeld approved stress positions, such as standing for up to four hours, isolation for up to thirty days, […]
12/2/2002
Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld received a November 27, 2002, memorandum from SOUTHCOM [Southern Command, which is responsible for all U.S. military activities in Central and South America] requesting his approval for the use of various interrogation methods at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Back in October, GTMO had developed a comprehensive list of such […]
12/2/2002
“…by December 2, 2002, Secretary [of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld had approved use of most of the specific [enhanced interrogation] tactics recommended in the [Commander of the Joint Task Force 170, Major General Michael] Dunlavey memo [of October 11, 2002]. Sixteen of the approved tactics had not been permitted in a 1992 U.S. Field Manual on […]