“Intelligence developed by NSA [National Security Agency] revealed that in August 2002 a French company called CIS Paris helped broker the sale to Iraq of twenty tons of a Chinese-made chemical called HTPB, which was used to make solid fuel for ballistic missiles.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – […]
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8/15/2002
“Under the headline ‘Don’t Attack Saddam,’ [former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft’s] August 15 [2002] column [in The Wall Street Journal] stated…an invasion [of Iraq] would require that the United states pursue a ‘go it alone’ strategy, and would ‘result in a serious degradation in international cooperation with us against terrorism. And make no mistake, […]
8/15/2002
The White House Iraq Group (WHIG) “was convened in August 2002, seven months before the invasion of Iraq, by Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff. Its eight members included [political advisor to President Bush Karl] Rove, [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice, the spinmeisters Karen Hughes and Mary Matalin–and…[Vice presidential Chief of Staff Scooter] […]
8/15/2002
“At a meeting in August 2002 of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA] on the proposed war in Iraq, Douglas J. Feith, the Pentagon’s under secretary of Defense for Policy, showed up at the meeting (which several DIA analysts said was very unusual) and proceeded to criticize the CIA’s failure to turn up any link […]
8/15/2002
“Daniel Coleman, the FBI special agent whose knowledge of al-Qaeda was unrivaled, says that in August 2002 someone called him from [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s office…and asked him ‘to review everything’ on Iraq and the al-Qaeda connection. Coleman recalls: ‘We had already reviewed the material twice. Again we came up empty.’ Coleman…subsequently told the staffer […]
8/15/2002
Brent Scowcroft, President George H.W. Bush’s National Security Advisor, wrote an op-ed piece for The Wall Street Journal which was published on August 15, 2002. It read: ” ‘There is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the September 11 attacks. Indeed, Saddam’s goals have little in common with the […]
8/15/2002
“Between October and December 2001, [Defense Department official Mike] Maloof and [neoconservative scholar David] Wurmser, who called themselves ‘Team B,’ combed through a decade of CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) files looking to find hitherto-overlooked connections, particularly between Saddam’s regime and al-Qaeda. …Once they had completed their analysis, Maloof and Wurmser presented their findings […]
8/15/2002
“When Jalal Talabani and other Iraqi opposition leaders had gone to Washington to confer with [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld and [Vice President Dick] Cheney in August 2002, he had warned about the potential for looting. There were many poor people in Baghdad, he cautioned, and they were likely to take the law into their […]
8/15/2002
“C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as illegal torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda, far more than had been previously reported. The C.I.A. officers used waterboarding at least 83 times in August 2002 against Abu Zubaydah, according to a 2005 Justice Department legal […]
8/15/2002
Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen “Hadley and [vice presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis ‘Scooter’] Libby were part of another secret office that had been set up within the White House. Known as the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), it was established in August 2002 by Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card, Jr., at the […]