“In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s […]
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9/15/2002
After four members of Congress were briefed about the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques in September 2002, according to one U.S. official who was present: ” ‘The attitude was, *We don’t care what you do to those guys as long as you get the information you need to protect the American people.* ‘ ” [The 15th […]
9/15/2002
In September 2002, “the Defense Intelligence Agency issued a classified report entitled ‘Iraq’s Reemerging Nuclear Weapons Program,’ which concluded that Baghdad was on its way to building the bomb.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – James Risen, State of War, Page 92 […]
9/15/2002
“In September 2002, the president’s [Bush’s] chief economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsay, estimated that the costs of war with Iraq could be as high as $100 billion to $200 billion. The administration was quick to dismiss Lindsay’s estimates. Mitch Daniels, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, discounted Lindsay’s statement as ‘very likely very high.’ […]
9/14/2002
“On September 14 [2002], [President] Bush repeated his nuclear charge during his weekly radio address. ‘Saddam Hussein has the scientists and infrastructure for a nuclear-weapons program, and has illicitly sought to purchase the equipment needed to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon.’ But, again, there was no new report. The IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] […]
9/14/2002
“In his weekly radio address [on September 14, 2002], President Bush says that Saddam ‘has illicitly sought to purchase the equipment needed to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon. Should his regime acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.’ ” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever […]
9/14/2002
President George W. Bush’s remarks on the Saddam’s Regime: “By supporting terrorist groups, repressing its own people and pursuing weapons of mass destruction in defiance of a decade of U.N. resolutions, Saddam Hussein’s regime has proven itself a grave and gathering danger. To suggest otherwise is to hope against the evidence. To assume this regime’s good […]
9/14/2002
President George W. Bush on the U.N.’s deliberations: “First of all, the United Nations deserves another chance to prove its relevance. See, we’re entering a new world. Wars of the future are not going to be like wars of the past. We fight these terrorists that hide in caves and send their youngsters to suicidal death. […]
9/14/2002
From President George W. Bush’s September 14, 2002, radio address: “Today Saddam Hussein has the scientists and infrastructure for a nuclear weapons program, and has illicitly sought to purchase the equipment needed to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon. Should his regime acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within […]
9/13/2002
“Fresh evidence has emerged that [U.K. Prime Minister] Tony Blair’s discredited Iraqi arms dossier was ‘sexed up’ on the instructions of Alastair Campbell, his communications chief, to fit with claims from the US administration that were known to be false. …In a keynote speech to the UN on 12 September 2002, Bush claimed: ‘Should Iraq […]