“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 […]
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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,” […]
9/25/2001
“On September 25, 2001, the Office of Legal Counsel issued another in a series of secret legal memos. …The memo, like [President] Bush’s address of a few days earlier, unapologetically crossed the line that Congress had drawn. …Some of the arguments that [Office of Legal Counsel Deputy Chief John] Yoo made…were astounding. …that Congress had […]
9/25/2001
“A senior law enforcement official said that 17 of the 19 hijackers were not known to intelligence or law enforcement officials before the Sept. 11 attacks. Two of the hijackers, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf alhamzi, were placed on the government’s official watch list for suspected terrorists before the attacks.” – Lowell Bergman and Don Van […]
9/25/2001
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul “Wolfowitz is said to be wedded to the position that Mr. bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network could not have carried out the [9/11] attack without Saddam Hussein’s help, the [senior Bush Administration] officials said.” – Elaine Sciolino, “U.S. Prepares to Brief NATO on Strategy to Fight bin Laden,” […]
9/24/2001
“The American announcement that it would use Saudi Arabia as a headquarters for air operations against Afghanistan has further strained relations between Washington and the conservative rulers in Riyadh. …Saudi leaders continue to voice public support in the struggle against terrorism, but are showing extreme sensitivity to launching military operations against another Muslim state from […]
9/24/2001
“On September 24 [2001], President Bush held a press conference with [Secretary of State] Colin Powell and treasury secretary Paul O’Neill at which he announced the freezing of assets of 27 individuals or entities that may have been funneling money to terrorists…many of the named targets had been identified by [counterterrorism czar] Richard Clarke long […]
9/24/2001
Since the attacks on 9/11, “Attorney General John Ashcroft said today [September 24, 2001] that 352 people had been arrested or detained and that an additional 392 people were being sought for questioning.” – Lowell Bergman and Don Van Natta Jr., “Agents Pursue German Leads On Terror Trail,” The New York Times, Sep. 25, 2001 […]