“Brent Scowcroft, the mild-mannered national security adviser to [President] Bush’s father during the Gulf War, had declared on a Sunday morning talk show on August 4 [2002] that an attack on Iraq could turn the Middle East into a ‘cauldron and thus destroy the war on terrorism.’ ” – Bob Woodward, Bush at War, Page […]
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8/3/2002
“On August 3, 2002, a CIA senior executive intelligence briefing summarized in the [Undersecretary of Defense Douglas] Feith memo [on October 27, 2003] noted that reports of al Qaeda regrouping in Iraq ‘are consistent with satellite imagery showing increased activity since last fall near a facility in Sargat, near Khurmal, at which al Qaeda associates […]
8/2/2002
According to information in a Washington Post article on July 25, 2003, former Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) wrote: “our investigators found a CIA memo dated August 2, 2002, whose author concluded that there is ‘incontrovertible evidence that there is support for these [9/11] terrorists within the Saudi Government.’ On September 11, America was not attacked […]
8/2/2002
On August 2, 2002, “Iraq surprised the international community by inviting the chief UN weapons inspector [Hans Blix] to Baghdad ‘to establish a solid basis for…monitoring and inspection activities.’ ” – Ricardo S. Sanchez with Donald T. Phillips, Wiser in Battle, Page 148 […]
8/1/2002
Deputy Chief in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) John Yoo’s ‘torture memo‘ of August 1, 2002, “identified torture with acts that cause the amount of pain ‘associated with a sufficiently serious physical condition or injury such as death, organ failure, or serious impairment of bodily functions.’ Any action that fell short of these extreme […]
8/1/2002
Presidential advisor Karl Rove wrote, regarding President Bush’s fight against terrorism: “Of all the steps the Bush administration took…no issue became as controversial as when the president–unbeknownst to me at the time–authorized the use of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs) on high-value terrorist detainees. These tough, coercive techniques included stress positions, cramped confinement, ‘insult slaps,’ dietary […]
8/1/2002
From an August 1, 2002, article in The Washington Post, regarding the possibility of international involvement in Iraq, “Jordan’s King Abdullah says, ‘In all the years I have seen in the international community, everybody is saying this is a bad idea.’ ” – Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq, Page 89 […]
8/1/2002
On August 1, 2002, on assignment as a branch chief in the Counterterrorist Center’s Osama bin Laden unit, CIA Agent John Kiriakou was told by an unidentified director, after signing multiple secrecy agreements: ” ‘We’re going to invade Iraq next spring. We’re going to overthrow Saddam Hussein. We’re going to establish the largest air force […]
8/1/2002
The Justice Department’s August 1, 2002, memo allowed for the use of torture against enemy combatants. “The radical legal reasoning in the document held that international laws forbidding torture did not apply to the commander in chief because Congress ‘may no more regulate the President’s ability to detain and interrogate enemy combatants than it may […]
8/1/2002
“To set parameters for permissible interrogation techniques, [Deputy Chief in the Office of Legal Counsel John] Yoo drafted a remarkable piece of legal reasoning [on August 1, 2002], now generally known as the Bybee Memo. In this legal opinion, Yoo sought to narrow interpretation of the torture statute, which prohibited U.S. personnel from engaging in […]