Former President George W. Bush wrote: “On November 13, 2001, I signed an executive order establishing military tribunals to try captured terrorists. The system was based closely on the one created by FDR in 1942, which tried and convicted eight Nazi spies who had infiltrated the United States. The Supreme Court had unanimously upheld the […]
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11/13/2001
“On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued an order authorizing the detention of terrorists and their trial by military commission.” – Julian E. Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of George W. Bush, Page 45 […]
11/13/2001
“By November 13, 2001, President Bush had made the erroneous claim that the September 11 attacks were acts of international terrorism of such an intensity as to create ‘a state of armed conflict’ and that they amounted to acts of ‘war’ by bin Laden and his followers. The Bush administration also argued that it had […]
11/13/2001
Then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: “On the evening of November 13, 2001, I learned that the President [Bush] had signed a military order earlier that day that I had not even been given. The order directed the Defense Department to establish military commissions to try detainees and issue guidance on procedures that would govern […]
11/13/2001
“On November 13, 2001…President Bush issued a military order formally appointing the secretary of defense [Donald Rumsfeld] as the ‘detention authority’ for captured prisoners and for establishing the outlines of a justice system to try them. The order was the product of a series of discussions between White House and Justice Department lawyers. The President’s […]
11/13/2001
“On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued a sweeping and highly controversial Military Order for the purpose of creating military commissions with exclusive jurisdiction to try certain designated foreign nationals ‘for violations of the laws of war and other applicable laws’ relevant to any prior or future ‘acts of international terrorism.’ The Order reached far […]
11/13/2001
“In November [13] 2001, despite the fact that Al-Jazeera had given the U.S. military coordinates of its office in Kabul [Afghanistan], U.S. war planes dropped two five-hundred-pound bombs on Al-Jazeera’s bureau there, destroying it. [According to an article that ran that day in News Alert] The United States claimed the office was ‘a known Al […]
11/12/2001
Former FBI antiterror official John O’Neill “explains the failure [to confront Saudi Arabia over Osama bin Laden] in one word: oil.” – Ethan Bronner, “Oil Diplomacy Muddled U.S. Pursuit of bin Laden, New Book Contends,” The New York Times, Nov. 12, 2001 […]
11/12/2001
“President [Bill] Clinton as reported in USA Today (November 12, 2001) reflected his frustration by noting ‘I tried to take bin Laden out…the last four years I was in office.’ ” – Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, Page 204 […]
11/12/2001
According to a November 12, 2001, article in USA Today: “President [Bill] Clinton reiterated that same Justice Department opinion on bin Laden. ‘We couldn’t indict him then [in February 1996] because he hadn’t killed anybody in America,’ the former president said. ‘He hadn’t done anything to us.’ ” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Page 222 […]