In his testimony to the Joint Inquiry Committee on September 26, 2002, CIA Counterterrorist Center Director Cofer Black said: ” ‘Frankly, from an intelligence perspective, in order to have a fighting chance to protect this country from al Qaeda, we needed to attack the Afghan terrorist sanctuary protected by the Taliban. CIA appreciated this all […]
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9/26/2002
On September 26, 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testified before the House Armed Services Committee: “Since we began after September 11th, we do have solid evidence of the presence in Iraq of al Qaeda members, including some that have been in Baghdad. We have what we consider to be very reliable reporting of senior […]
9/25/2002
On September 25, 2002, “President Bush actually told the country, ‘You cannot distinguish between al-Qaeda and Saddam.’ He also said, ‘The true threat facing our country is an al-Qaeda-type network trained and armed by Saddam.’ ” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 108 […]
9/25/2002
” ‘You can’t distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror. They’re equally as bad. They work in concert,’ [President] Bush said on September 25, 2002.” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 144 […]
9/25/2002
“As the president [Bush] declared in September [25] 2002, ‘You can’t distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror. …I can’t distinguish between the two, because they’re both equally as bad, and equally as evil, and equally as destructive.’ ” – Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 29 […]
9/25/2002
In an effort to prepare a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq in only three weeks’ time in the fall of 2002, “the CIA frantically had to verify dubious bits of intelligence, including one questionable nugget that [CIA Director George] Tenet had indiscreetly divulged to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee […]
9/25/2002
“In late September 2002, NSA [National Security Agency] Director Michael Hayden signed off on a CIA-produced National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq’s WMD program that not only turned out to be wrong in almost all respects, but also served as the principal justification for the Bush administration to lead the United States to war with […]
9/25/2002
” ‘You can’t distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror,’ said a confident [President] Bush in [September 25] 2002.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page xlix […]
9/25/2002
According to the Silberman-Robb Commission’s report, which was released on March 31, 2005: ” ‘In late September 2002, DCI [Director of Central Intelligence, George] Tenet told the Senate’s Intelligence and Armed Services Committees (and subsequently the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) that *we know Iraq has developed a redundant capability to produce biological warfare agents using […]
9/25/2002
President George W. Bush, when asked by a member of the press if Saddam was a larger threat than al Qaeda: “That’s a — that is an interesting question. I’m trying to think of something humorous to say. (Laughter.) But I can’t when I think about al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. They’re both risks, they’re both […]