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 […]
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8/15/2002
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, in August 2002: ” ‘If you’re asking, are there al-Qaeda in Iraq, the answer is yes, there are. It’s a fact, yes.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Andrew Wander and Gregg Carlstrom, “Files Chart al-Qaeda’s Rise in Iraq,” Al Jazeera, Oct. […]
8/15/2002
Bush I National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft wrote an article on August 15, 2002, for The Wall Street Journal titled, ‘Don’t Attack Saddam.’ ” ‘We will all be better off when he is gone,’ the retired general and Bush family confidant began. …There was ‘scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less […]
8/15/2002
Then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: “Before leaving for Crawford [Texas], I took advantage of an interview with the BBC [on August 15, 2002] to say that there was a moral case and a national security argument for overthrowing Saddam. ‘We certainly do not have the luxury of doing nothing,’ I said. That was taken […]
8/15/2002
“The C.I.A. officers used waterboarding at least 83 times in August 2002 against [al Qaeda operations chief] Abu Zubaydah, according to a 2005 Justice Department legal memorandum.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Scott Shane, “Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects,” The New York Times, April 19, 2009 […]
8/15/2002
“In August 2002, Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin presented to the principals committee the intelligence community’s judgments about Iraq’s WMD activities. …his briefing concluded that: -Iraq had reconstituted its facilities for biological and chemical weapons. -There were 3,200 tons of chemical weapons the regime previously had that remained unaccounted for. -Saddam had a mobile biological […]
8/15/2002
In his Wall Street Journal op-ed on August 15, 2002, former National Security Advisor “Brent Scowcroft warns that in the event of an invasion [of Iraq], ‘Dire consequences would be the effect in the region.’ Among these would be ‘an explosion of outrage against us’ and a threat to ‘stability and security in a vital […]
8/15/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “523. By late August 2002, the Government was troubled by intense speculation about whether a decision had already been taken to use military force. In Mr Blair’s words, the US and UK had been ‘outed’ as having taken a decision when no such decision […]
8/15/2002
“…Brent Scowcroft, the former national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush, warned in a [August 15, 2002] Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled ‘Don’t Attack Saddam’ that an invasion of Iraq would be both a diversion from and an impediment to the war against al Qaeda. He felt ‘our preeminent security policy…is the war on […]
8/15/2002
“In August 2002, Vice President Cheney stated that Iraq was actively developing nuclear weapons. He claims that the evidence came from Saddam’s son-in-law, who defected from Iraq in 1995. But, in fact, the defector had said the opposite- that Saddam had done no work on nuclear weapons since 1991.” [The 15th of the month for […]