“By September 18 [2001], [Secretary of State Colin] Powell had contacted 58 of his foreign counterparts and received offers of general aid, search-and-rescue equipment and personnel, and medical assistance teams.” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 333 […]
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9/18/2001
“Responding to a presidential tasking, [counterterrorism czar Richard] Clarke’s office sent a memo to [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice on September 18 [2001] titled ‘Survey of Intelligence Information on Any Iraq Involvement in the September 11 Attacks.’ Rice’s chief staffer on Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, concurred in its conclusion that only some anecdotal evidence linked Iraq […]
9/18/2001
“On Tuesday, September 18 [2001], at Logan Airport [Massachusetts], a specially reconfigured Boeing 727 with about thirty first-class seats had been chartered by the bin Ladens and flew five passengers, all of them members of the bin Laden family, out of the country from Boston.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page […]
9/18/2001
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld “said today [September 18, 2001] that Al Qaeda…may have activities in 50 to 60 countries, and that network is just one of many that President Bush has vowed to vanquish.” – Michael R. Gordon, Eric Schmitt, and Thom Shanker, “Scarcity of Afghan Targets Leads U.S. to Revise Strategy,” The New […]
9/18/2001
“Congress…implicitly authorized the President [Bush] to carry out electronic surveillance to prevent further attacks on the United States in the Authorization for Use of Military Force [AUMF] passed on September 18, 2001. AUMF has no limitation on time or place–only that the president pursue al Qaeda. Although the President did not need, as a constitutional […]
9/18/2001
“On September 18 [2001], Congress enacted an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)–if not a declaration of war in name, a declaration of war in purpose. It pronounced the September 11 attacks ‘grave acts of violence’ that ‘pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.’ […]
9/18/2001
“On September 18 [2001], Wesley Clark, the former supreme allied commander of NATO, warned CNN that the Bush administration might ‘think it’s time for regime change’ in Iraq.” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 217 […]
9/18/2001
Counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke and his deputy Roger Cressey sent a memo “to [National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice a week after 9/11 [September 18, 2001]; titled ‘Survey of Intelligence Information of Any Iraqi Involvement in the September 11 Attacks,’ it concluded that there was ‘no compelling case’ that Iraq was involved [in 9/11].” – Peter Bergen, […]
9/18/2001
According to a June 2003 report from the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General: “…within just one week of the 9/11 attacks [September 18, 2001], the FBI had ‘received more than 96,000 tips or potential leads from the public, including more than 54,000 through an Internet site it established for the PENTTBOM [Pentagon, Twin […]
9/17/2001
Vice President Dick “Cheney said there was no indication that Iraq was linked to last week’s [9/11] terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. ‘Saddam Hussein’s bottled up at this point,’ he said.” – Michael R. Gordon, “A New War And Its Scale,” The New York Times, Sep. 17, 2001 […]