Vice President “Dick Cheney, speaking at the Air National Guard Senior Leadership Conference in December [2] 2002, described the Afghanistan War as ‘America’s most dramatic victory in the war against terrorism’ and claimed that ‘the Taliban regime and the al Qaeda terrorists have met the fate that they chose for themselves.’ ” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, […]
Category: quotes
12/2/2002
President George W. Bush on the U.N.’s weapons inspection of Iraq: “As the U.N. weapons inspections process gets underway, we must remember that inspections will not — will only work — will only work if Iraq fully complies. You see, the inspectors are not in Iraq to play hide and seek with Mr. Saddam Hussein. Inspectors […]
12/2/2002
In an email dated Dec. 2, 2002, CITF [Criminal Investigation Task Force Participation] commander Col. Brittain P. Mallow wrote his policy for the subject “CITF Participation in discussions of interrogation strategies, techniques, etc” for “all others down in GTMO” that: “2) … At any point that we disagree with an approach … but that does […]
11/28/2002
“When it came out that [Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince] Bandar’s wife, Princess Haifa, had made charitable contributions that may have inadvertently helped two of the [9/11] hijackers get settled in San Diego, [Secretary of State Colin] Powell visited NPR’s Morning Edition on November 28, 2002, to defend the prince and princess, although with […]
11/28/2002
From a list of attacks ‘believed to have been conducted by, or inspired by, al-Qaeda:’ “November 28, 2002: Mombassa, Kenya: A car bomb crashes into the lobby of the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel and kills sixteen people.” – Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, Growing Up Bin Laden, Page 320 […]
11/27/2002
“On November 27, 2002, President Bush signed HR 4628, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003, which established the body formally known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [also known as the 9/11 Commission]. ‘The Commission will build upon the work of the congressional joint inquiries,’ said the president, […]
11/27/2002
In Iraq, “The first [weapons] inspection took place on November 27 [2002].” – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 95 […]
11/27/2002
Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld was personally deciding on whether interrogators could use ‘stress positions’ (an old CIA technique) like making prisoners stand for up to four hours, or exploit ‘individual phobias, such as fear of dogs, to induce stress,’ or strip them naked, or question them for twenty-eight hours at a stretch, without sleep, […]
11/27/2002
FBI Legal Counsel Marion Bowman sends “Interrogation Techniques” in “Legal Analysis of Interrogation Techniques” categorizing techniques into four categories and outlining which were “not permitted by the U.S. Constitution” such as “Category II -5. Hooding detainee.” – Marion Bowman, “Legal Analysis of Interrogation Techniques,” NSarchive.gwu.edu, Nov. 27, 2002 […]
11/27/2002
“On November 27, 2002, thanks mostly to pressure on the White House from the 9/11 families and [Senator John] McCain [R-AZ], [President] Bush reluctantly signed the bill creating the 9/11 commission. The bill was not what [Senate Majority Leader Tom] Daschle [D-SD], McCain, and the families had wanted. It provided the commission with an insultingly […]