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 […]
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2/15/2002
“By February 2002 the hawks [in the Bush Administration] were confident enough to openly announce their intention in Iraq after invading Afghanistan.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 13 […]
2/15/2002
“…by February 2002, the allegation [that lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta met with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2001] had already been discredited independently by both the CIA and the FBI. They had determined that at the time of the supposed meeting in Prague, Atta was […]
2/15/2002
“Unfortunately, the reappearance of the Taliban was ignored by the Bush White House, which had already set its sights on Iraq. So beginning in February 2002, and continuing without letup through the summer of 2002, just as Taliban guerrilla attacks were on the rise inside Afghanistan, virtually all CIA and U.S. military intelligence assets (including […]
2/15/2002
“Both [incumbent Afghan President Hamid] Karzai and Kofi Annan, then the head of the United Nations, wanted to post international peacekeepers around Afghanistan in early 2002. But the Bush administration blocked any non-U.S. troops from deploying outside Kabul for the first two years of the occupation. [Ambassador to Afghanistan James] Dobbins recalls a meeting in […]
2/15/2002
Former Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), “who was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 2002, wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post on November 20, 2005: ‘In February 2002…after a briefing on the status of the war in Afghanistan, the commanding officer, General Tommy Franks, told me the war was being compromised […]
2/15/2002
“As of early [February] 2002, international security and intelligence agencies estimate there to be at least 300 active and dormant members of Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda associate Islamist members in Europe. Without exception they are the cream of Al Qaeda’s trained members.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – […]
2/15/2002
“Dale Watson, the FBI’s intelligence chief, stated before a Senate hearing in February 2002 that the FBI was caught off guard by the [9/11] attack because most of the nineteen hijackers entered the country close to the fateful date.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Bill Gertz, Breakdown, Page […]
2/15/2002
“When he [Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld] visited Guantánamo for the first time in February 2002, he said the United States was holding ‘the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth.’ Although most of the prisoners would turn out to be innocent of any crime, Rumsfeld had already determined their guilt.” […]
2/15/2002
“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 […]