Director of the DARPA Information Awareness Office, Admiral John Poindexter wrote: “In January 2002 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is part of the Defense Department, established an Information Awareness Office to focus on technologies to help counter terrorism. We established a new research and development program, now called the Terrorism Information Awareness program, […]
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1/15/2002
“…in January of 2002, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz actually directed the under secretary of Defense for Policy, Douglas Feith, to set up an operation within his office that would serve as a de facto intelligence unit, independent of the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies, to prove an Iraq-Al Qaeda relationship. The fact that […]
1/14/2002
On January 14, 2002, “a little-noticed article in The Washington Times reported that the Pentagon had launched its own secret effort to develop a case for attacking Iraq and overthrowing Saddam Hussein as part of the war on terrorism. …Established under [Deputy Secretary of Defense] Paul Wolfowitz by [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy] Douglas Feith, […]
1/14/2002
President George W. Bush on continued questions on our reliance, as a nation, on foreign oil: “We are too reliant upon foreign sources of crude oil. We’ve got to do a better job of not only conserving energy, but it seems to make sense to me that when we’ve got energy on our own hemisphere, and […]
1/12/2002
“On January 12, 2002, [Pakistani President Pervez] Musharraf made an important televised speech to the nation in which he said that Pakistan would no longer tolerate organizations that practiced terrorism in the name of religion.” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 256 […]
1/11/2002
During a Pentagon Briefing on January 11, 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld responded to a journalist’s question about whether the ICRC and other non-governmental organizations would be given access to the detainees: “… They will be handled not as prisoners of wars, because they’re not, but as unlawful combatants. The — as I understand it, […]
1/11/2002
On January 11, 2002, Chief Legal Advisor to the Department of State, William Howard Taft IV, sent a memo to Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo “that his [Yoo’s] contention that the President could disregard the Geneva Conventions was ‘untenable,’ ‘incorrect,’ and ‘confused.’ ” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page […]
1/11/2002
In a memo to Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo on January 11, 2002, Chief Legal Advisor to the Department of State, William Howard Taft IV, “warned Yoo that if the United States took the war on terror outside the Geneva Conventions, not only could U.S. soldiers be denied the protections […]
1/11/2002
In January 2002, “the U.S. military established a prison camp at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and began airlifting prisoners from Afghanistan into the new prison, named Camp X-Ray. The first prisoners arrived on January 11, 2002.” – James Risen, State of War, Page 28 […]
1/11/2002
“In [Chief Legal Advisor to the Department of State William H.] Taft’s view, [Deputy Assistant Attorney General John] Yoo had completely misread international law [in his interpretations of how the Geneva Conventions applied to prisoners of the war on terror]. ‘Both the most important factual assumptions on which your draft is based and its legal […]