“Appearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in February 2002, [Director of Central Intelligence George] Tenet denied that the September 11 terrorist attacks represented a failure of American intelligence.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Bill Gertz, Breakdown, Page 59 […]
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2/15/2002
“…in February [2002, U.K. Prime Minister Tony] Blair had his first meeting with [President] Bush when they declared their joint determination to contain the threat from Iraq.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Clare Short, An Honourable Deception?, Page 76 […]
2/15/2002
In an interview conducted by journalist Con Coughlin in February 2002, former U.S. diplomat “David Mack insisted that Washington did not sell any arms to Iraq. ‘We never provided any military equipment to Iraq,’ he said. ‘The only U.S. equipment we ever sent to Baghdad was two pearl-handled revolvers which Saddam asked for especially to […]
2/15/2002
On May 6, 2003, journalist Nicholas Kristof wrote in The New York Times, regarding the Niger-Iraq yellowcake situation: ” ‘I’m told by a person involved in the Niger caper that more than a year ago the vice president’s [Dick Cheney’s] office asked for an investigation of the uranium deal, so a former U.S. ambassador to […]
2/15/2002
“In February [2002], Mohammed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, a nuclear watchdog office, reported to the United Nations, ‘We have found to date no evidence of ongoing prohibited nuclear or nuclear-related activities in Iraq.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco, Page […]
2/15/2002
“A former acting ambassador to Iraq, Joe Wilson, was asked by the CIA [in February 2002] to travel to Niger to investigate the allegations that Saddam Hussein had been seeking yellowcake uranium. …He said that he found that there was no such effort.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – […]
2/15/2002
“According to one former NSC [National Security Council] official, Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith argued in a White House meeting in February 2002 that counter-narcotics was not part of the war on terrorism, and so Defense wanted no part of it in Afghanistan. ‘We couldn’t get Defense to do counter-narcotics in Afghanistan,’ recalled the former […]
2/15/2002
The Department of Defense’s ‘Militarily Critical Technologies List,’ updated in February 2002, read: ” ‘When the Iraqis produced chemical munitions they appeared to adhere to a *make and use* regimen. They had to get the agent to the front promptly or have it degrade in the munition.’ Their conclusion was that the shelf life of […]
2/15/2002
In February 2002, President Bush determined that “Afghanistan (on whose behalf the Taliban technically fought) was a party to the Geneva Convention, but that because the Taliban did not wear uniforms, carry their arms openly, or follow other traditional wartime requirements, its fighters did not qualify for POW status…” [The 15th of the month used […]
2/15/2002
According to the Silberman-Robb Commission’s report, which was released on March 31, 2005: ” ‘Another [Iraqi informant] source…was brought to the attention of DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency] by Washington-based representatives of the INC [Iraqi National Congress]. Like [informant] Curveball, his reporting was handled by Defense HUMINT [human intelligence]. He provided one report that Iraq had […]