While discussing the threat of Saddam and Iraq in an August 4, 2002, appearance on Meet the Press, Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) said: ” ‘We have no choice but to eliminate the threat… This is a guy who is an extreme danger to the world.’ ” – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 436 […]
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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
“Testifying before Congress on August 1, 2002, Matthew Levitt, a senior fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, noted that Tarik Hamdi, an IIIT [Saudi-based charity International Institute for Islamic Thought] employee, had personally provided Osama bin Laden with batteries for his satellite phone, a critical link in the stateless world that bin […]
8/1/2002
In Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee’s August 1, 2002, memo to Acting General Counsel to the CIA John Rizzo, “The OLC [Office of Legal Counsel] concluded that the use of the following ten interrogation techniques by the CIA would not constitute torture: 1) attention grasp, 2) walling, 3) facial hold, 4) facial slap, 5) cramped […]
8/1/2002
On August 1, 2002, in a meeting of top U.S. military commanders, Central Command leader General Tommy Franks said: ” ‘The end state for this operation [in Iraq] is regime change. …Success is defined as regime leadership and power base destroyed; WMD capability destroyed or controlled; territorial integrity intact; ability to threaten neighbors eliminated; an […]
8/1/2002
“On August 1, 2002, in an infamous memo written largely by [Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), John] Yoo but signed by Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee, the OLC redefined the crime of torture to make it all but impossible to commit. …If all else failed, Yoo and Bybee advised, the […]
8/1/2002
A Washington Post article on June 8, 2004, mentioned “the existence of the so-called Torture Memo, a secret document drafted for the president [Bush] by his Office of Legal Counsel. Written in August [1] 2002, the memo reassessed the executive’s prerogatives and responsibilities under U.S. law and under the Geneva Convention Against Torture and Other […]
8/1/2002
“On August 1 [2002], the CIA issued a classified paper that was distributed to senior Bush administration officials. It concluded that a shipment of high-strength aluminum tubes from China to Iraq was a sign that Iraq was reviving its uranium enrichment program in order to build an atomic bomb.” – James Risen, State of War, […]