On October 8, 2002, “CIA Director George Tenet declassified a letter he had sent to Senator Bob Graham [D-FL], chairman of the Senate committee. …It stated that the CIA has concluded that ‘Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or CBW (chemical or biological weapons) against […]
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10/8/2002
“Knight-Ridder reporters Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay found a number of senior U.S. officials with access to intelligence on Iraq who thought the [Bush] administration claims [that Iraq purchased aluminum tubes from China to use for uranium enrichment] were fraudulent. …These officials, they said in the fall [October 8] of 2002, ‘charge that administration hawks […]
10/8/2002
On October 8, 2002, Knight-Ridder journalists Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott wrote: ” ‘A growing number of military officers, intelligence professionals and diplomats in [Bush’s] own government privately have deep misgivings about the administration’s double-time march toward war. These officials charge that administration hawks have exaggerated evidence of the threat that […]
10/7/2002
According to a New York Times article on July 13, 2003: “a claim that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy 550 tons of uranium ore from Niger had been dropped from a speech given by President Bush in Cincinnati [Ohio] back on October 7, 2002. CIA director George Tenet, the story said, had personally warned […]
10/7/2002
On October 7, 2002, CIA Director George “Tenet sent a letter to Senator Bob Graham [D-FL], who was then chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Tenet laid out his evidence for a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda: ‘*Our understanding of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda is evolving and is based […]
10/7/2002
On October 7, 2002, President Bush gave a televised speech which was carried only by cable channels CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News Channel. “Bush’s core argument was that Iraq ‘gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place’ and that, ‘The danger is already significant and grows worse with time…Facing clear evidence of […]
10/7/2002
CIA Director George “Tenet, in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee on October 7, 2002, reported that the intelligence community had accumulated ‘solid reporting of senior-level contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda going back a decade.’ ” – Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Pages 21-22 […]
10/7/2002
Referring to a speech made by President Bush on October 7, 2002, Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) said that President Bush’s rhetoric was misleading the public toward war with Iraq: “These claims [of an Iraq/al-Qaeda connection] were effective. At the time, a poll showed that 70 percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was involved in […]
10/7/2002
“On October 7 [2002], [CIA Director George] Tenet released selected material [from the classified October 1 National Intelligence Estimate], including an assessment that ‘Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks’ against the United States with conventional or chemical or biological weapons. Indeed, Tenet went on to say, ‘Should […]
10/7/2002
On October 7, 2002, in a letter to Bob Graham (D-FL), the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA Director George Tenet summarized the current intelligence reporting on the relationship between Iraq and al Qa’ida. “The CIA, he declared, had ‘solid’ and ‘credible’ information on the relationship, which had been developing for years in spite […]