“An edict from the Taliban’s ruling council of clerics requesting that Osama bin Laden should leave Afghanistan was delivered to the Saudi-born fugitive yesterday [September 26, 2001]. The fatwa, delivered by hand by a messenger, confirmed that America’s prime suspect behind the recent terrorist attacks is still in hiding in Afghanistan, contradicting reports over the […]
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9/26/2001
Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote of a meeting he had with President Bush on September 26, 2001. “The President leaned back in the black leather chair behind his desk. He asked that I take a look at the shape of our military plans on Iraq. …He wanted the options to be ‘creative,’ which I […]
9/26/2001
“After the National Security Council meeting that morning [September 26, 2001], [President] Bush asked [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld to stay behind. The two talked alone in the Oval Office. ‘I want you to develop a plan to invade Iraq,’ Bush said. ‘Do it outside the normal channels. Do it creatively so we don’t have […]
9/25/2001
“On September 25, 2001, I [Deputy Chief in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), John Yoo] signed an OLC opinion issued to the White House which concluded that a foreign attack had occurred on September 11, the United States was at war, and President Bush had full constitutional authority to launch attacks to destroy the […]
9/25/2001
In a speech to employees of the FBI on September 25, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘I see things this way: the people who did this act on America [on 9/11]…are evil people. They don’t represent an ideology, they don’t represent a legitimate political group of people. They’re flat evil. That’s all they can think […]
9/25/2001
“Since 1978, the warrantless interception of communications to and from the United States had been prohibited by federal law. But [Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel John] Yoo’s September 25 [2001] memo authorized such surveillance, in secret, ‘incident to’ the authority Congress had just granted. The memo dramatically enhanced the power of the […]
9/25/2001
“According to Bruce Fein, a constitutional lawyer who served as associate deputy attorney general under [President] Ronald Reagan, the new domestic spying program that eventually emerged from this [September 25, 2001] authorization [by Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo] flouted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) by directing the […]
9/25/2001
Former President George W. Bush recalled: “In late September [2001], FBI Director Bob Mueller…told me there were 331 potential al Qaeda operatives inside the United States.” [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – George W. Bush, Decision Points, Page 154 […]
9/25/2001
In late September 2001, “Boeing executives met with Darlene Druyun, then deputy assistant secretary of the air force for acquisition. Boeing was facing severe financial difficulties in the wake of the airline slump that followed 9/11 and was looking for a bailout. It was therefore agreed at this and subsequent meetings that the air force […]
9/25/2001
“Weeks after the 9/11 attacks [on September 25, 2001], Interpol issued an arrest warrant for [al Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman] al-Zawahiri, alleging he ‘masterminded several terrorist operations in Egypt’ and accusing him of ‘criminal complicity and management for the purpose of committing premeditated murder.’ ” – “Al-Zawahiri has a Long History with Osama bin Laden, Terror,” […]