“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.] – […]
2/14/2002
” ‘It doesn’t mean that an invasion [of Iraq] is imminent,’ [Secretary of State Colin] Powell told the Financial Times [on February 14, 2002]… Sanctions and support for the Iraqi opposition were still firm pillars of [Bush] administration policy, he said, and ‘if there is ever a point where we believe it’s necessary to do […]
2/13/2002
“On February 13, 2002, Knight Ridder reported that ‘President Bush has decided to oust Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power and ordered the CIA, the Pentagon and other agencies to devise a combination of military, diplomatic and covert steps to achieve that goal.” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Page 82 […]
2/13/2002
“The next day [February 13, 2002] at a press conference the president [Bush] said of Iraq, ‘I will reserve whatever options I have, I’ll keep them close to my vest.’ “ – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 103 […]
2/13/2002
In an op-ed piece he wrote that appeared in The Washington Post on February 13, 2002, former Assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Ken Adelman, wrote: “Hussein constitutes the number one threat against American security and civilization. Unlike Osama bin Laden, he has billions in government funds, scores of government research labs working feverishly […]