“The USA Patriot Act is an acronym derived from the title: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism. The bill was introduced on October 23, 2001, and three days later, with only Senator Russ Feingold (Democrat of Wisconsin) voting nay, it was sent to the president [Bush] for […]
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10/23/2001
In a memo to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales on October 23, 2001, Deputy Chief in the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo “reiterated his view that the president’s powers trump the Constitution. ‘Our office recently concluded,’ he wrote, ‘that the Fourth Amendment [prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures] had no application to domestic military operations.’ […]
10/23/2001
“America continued its war against [terrorist group and al Qaeda ally] Harkat [ul-Mujahedin] after 9/11, when on October 23, 2001, U.S. warplanes bombed a Harkat office in Kabul [Afghanistan], killing twenty-two Pakistani members of Harkat.” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 113 […]
10/23/2001
“The fear inside the West Wing grew on October 23 [2001], when [President] Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney were told that Pakistan had arrested two nuclear scientists who had been in contact with Osama bin Laden, possibly to help al-Qaeda build a bomb. …The Pakistanis had picked up the two scientists in response to […]
10/22/2001
Representative Porter Goss (R-FL) said: ” ‘the Clinton administration was not very interested in our intelligence community, did not spend very much time worrying about, or using it, or investing in it.’ ” – Alison Mitchell and Todd S. Purdum, “Lawmakers Seek Inquiry Into Intelligence Failures,” The New York Times, Oct. 22, 2001 […]
10/22/2001
“Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., for example, Delaware Democrat and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Monday [October 22, 2001] that Saudi Arabia ‘is funding hatred.’ He also said the United States had ‘gone overboard’ in its ‘love affair’ with Saudi Arabia. ‘I know they’ve got a lot of oil, but they […]
10/22/2001
Columnist William Safire wrote, in the October 22, 2001, issue of The New York Times: ” ‘It is absurd to claim…that Iraq is not an active collaborator with, harborer of, and source of sophisticated training and unconventional weaponry for bin Laden’s world terror network.’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, […]
10/21/2001
“At an economic conference in Shanghai, [President] Bush said one goal of the terrorists who brought down the World Trade Center was to cause a collapse of international markets. For that reason, he said, businesses had to join this American-led fight, even if it meant new security measures and tighter border controls that put a […]
10/21/2001
“Altogether, 830 people have been arrested in the United States, but officials said no evidence has been developed to suggest that anyone now in custody–including at least 10 members of Al Qaeda–took part in the conspiracy that led to last month’s [9/11] attacks.” – Clyde Haberman, “Oct. 20, 2001, War on the Ground, Allies Around […]
10/21/2001
“Although the Federal Bureau of Investigation identified most of the hijackers in the Sept. 11 attacks as Saudis, Saudi Arabia has refused to provide passenger lists of flights to the United States, an act the Bush administration has been unwilling to criticize.” – Neela Banerjee, “The High, Hidden Cost of Saudi Arabian Oil,” The New […]