“Calling for a new ‘vital line of defense’ against terrorists, Attorney General John Ashcroft proposed Justice Department regulations today [June 5, 2002] that would require 100,000 foreign students, tourists, researchers and other visitors to register with the federal government. Mr. Ashcroft said any foreigner who might pose ‘a national security concern,’ would be covered by […]
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6/4/2002
President Bush discussed 9/11 intelligence issues at the National Security Agency on June 4, 2002. ” ‘In terms of whether or not the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. were communicating properly,’ he said, ‘I think it is clear that they weren’t…’ ” – Maureen Dowd, “Wedge on the Potomac,” The New York Times, June 5, 2002 […]
6/4/2002
“United States intelligence and law enforcement officials said today [June 4, 2002] that they had concluded that a possible relative of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who coordinated the first bombing of the World Trade Center, in 1993, and a later unsuccessful plot to bomb American airliners over the Pacific, played a pivotal role in planning the […]
6/4/2002
“…when Syrian president Bashar al-Assad asked for help from Jordan and Iraq [for flood relief after a dam burst on June 4, 2002], Saddam knew what he would do. For him, the disaster in Syria was a gift, and there, posing as shipments of supplies and equipment sent from Iraq to aid the relief effort, […]
6/1/2002
On or around June 1, 2002, “…FBI chief Bob Mueller had held a press conference officially announcing that KSM [Khalid Sheikh Muhammed] was the mastermind behind 9/11–the main disclosure from the [al Qaeda operations chief Abu] Zubaydah interrogation. Pictures and profiles of the terrorist had saturated the media, elevating KSM to the status of international […]
6/1/2002
“On June 1, 2002, [President] Bush made a comprehensive effort to delineate a rationale for a war [against Iraq] to the graduating class at West Point. If an adversary provided weapons of mass destruction to a terrorist group, the U.S. might be attacked but might not ever know who sponsored the blow. Deterrence–essentially, the threat […]
6/1/2002
The Bush “administration also issued a document titled ‘The National Security Strategy of the United States of America’ that formalized the preemption doctrine outlined by the president at West Point in June [1, 2002]. ‘We cannot let our enemies strike first,’ it stated. ‘The overlap between states that sponsor terror and those that pursue WMD […]
6/1/2002
“Calling al Qaeda ‘a new kind of enemy’ [at a speech at West Point on June 1, 2002], President Bush argued that, after 9/11, America could no longer wait for a foreign threat to fully reveal itself. Instead it would act preemptively to ‘confront the worst threats before they emerge.’ This new commitment was contradictory […]
6/1/2002
“President Bush gave the commencement address at West Point on June 1 [2002]. In language that echoed his State of the Union message, he said that the United States could not tolerate growing threats. He explained that containment was not possible when ‘unbalanced dictators with weapons of mass destruction can deliver those weapons on missiles […]
6/1/2002
In his commencement address at West Point on June 1, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge. …The only path to safety is action. And this nation will act.’ ” – Ron Suskind, The Price of Loyalty, Page […]