“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 […]
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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 […]
10/7/2002
In a speech at the Cincinnati Museum Center (Ohio) on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy–the United States. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high-level contacts that go back more than a decade. …And we know that […]
10/7/2002
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith used his Office of Special Plans unit to brief the CIA on intelligence linking Saddam and al Qaeda. The CIA ignored the briefing, having already discounted most of the material. “Feith’s road show turned around and gave the same briefing at the White House for senior officials. …But […]
10/7/2002
On October 7, 2002, “In the buildup to the 2003 invasion, President Bush invoked the defection of ‘the head of Iraq’s military industries’ [Saddam’s son-in-law Hussein Kamel] as a crucial factor in forcing the Iraqi regime to admit to the production of a ‘massive stockpile of biological weapons that has never been accounted for, and […]
10/7/2002
“In his speech in Cincinnati [Ohio] on October 7, 2002, President Bush had warned that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction could come into the hands of terrorists. It was one of the major concerns he highlighted before the critical congressional vote authorizing the use of force against Iraq.” – Charles Duelfer, Hide and Seek, Page […]
10/7/2002
In President Bush’s speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 7, 2002, “The president likened the threat the country faces today from Iraq to the Cuban missile crisis, which unfolded exactly 40 years ago this month. The comparison was intended, his aides acknowledged, to give the confrontation a sense of urgency and to explain why the […]
10/7/2002
In a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 7, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘Hussein is a threat to peace and must disarm. The Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gasses and atomic weapons. …Some ask how urgent this danger is to America […]
10/7/2002
On October 7, 2002, the forced confession of alleged Al Qaeda commander Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi was used during a President Bush speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, “to buttress its allegations that Iraq was on the verge of supplying Al Qaeda with…weapons of mass destruction.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 135 […]
10/7/2002
“…when [President] Bush told the nation on the evening of October 7 [2002] that Hussein was an imminent threat to the security of this country, he was telling millions of Americans the exact opposite of what is own CIA was telling him. In other words, to further his own personal agenda, Bush lied to the […]