In his meeting with principals on September 17, 2001, “President Bush charged [Attorney General John] Ashcroft, [FBI Director Robert] Mueller, and [Director of Central Intelligence George] Tenet to develop a plan for homeland defense. President Bush directed Secretary of State [Colin] Powell to deliver an ultimatum to the Taliban along the lines that his department […]
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9/16/2001
“Al Jazeera broadcast a statement on Sunday [September 16, 2001] that it attributed to the world’s most wanted fugitive [bin Laden]. ‘I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seem to have been planned by people for personal reasons,’ read the message, whose authenticity was impossible to […]
9/16/2001
On September 16, 2001, President Bush told reporters: ” ‘This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while. And the American people must be patient.’ ” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 51 […]
9/16/2001
On September 16, 2001, Counterterrorist Center Director Cofer Black delivered a proposal which “included the inauguration of secret paramilitary death squads authorized to hunt and kill prime terror suspects anywhere on earth. A week earlier, these deaths would have been classified as illegal assassinations. …Black’s proposal was nothing less than a global plan for a […]
9/16/2001
On September 16, 2001, “Vice President [Dick] Cheney was quoted as saying…’Saddam Hussein is bottled up.’ “ – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 259 […]
9/16/2001
“Appearing on Meet the Press [on September 16, 2001], [Vice President Dick] Cheney gave a memorable description of how the [Bush] administration viewed the continuing [terror] threat and how it planned to respond. ‘We’ll have to work sort of the dark side, if you will,’ Cheney explained.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Pages 9-10 […]
9/16/2001
In an appearance on Meet the Press on September 16, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney said: “the U.S. military might ‘have to work…sort of the dark side’ and ‘[a] lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using…methods that are available to our intelligence agencies…to use […]
9/16/2001
National Security Advisor Condoleezza “Rice said that when President Bush called her on Sunday, September 16 [2001], he said the focus would be on Afghanistan, although he still wanted plans for Iraq should the country take some action or the administration eventually determine that it had been involved in the 9/11 attacks.” – 9/11 Commission, […]
9/16/2001
“It was during a press conference on Sept. 16 [2001], in response to a question about homeland security efforts infringing on civil rights, that [President] Bush first used the telltale word ‘crusade’ in public. ‘This is a new kind of–a new kind of evil,’ he said. ‘And we understand. And the American people are beginning […]
9/16/2001
“Vice President [Dick] Cheney even told Tim Russert on Meet the Press on September 16, 2001, that ‘Saddam Hussein’s bottled up at this point,’ and he acknowledged that there was no evidence linking Saddam to 9/11.” – Scott McClellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, Page 136 […]