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 […]
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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 […]
9/16/2001
“In a statement faxed to the pro-Taliban Afghan Islamic Press agency [on September 16, 2001], Bin Laden denied having anything to do with the previous week’s attacks in New York and Washington. ‘I am residing in Afghanistan. I have taken an oath of allegiance [to the Taliban’s spiritual leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar] which does not […]
9/16/2001
In National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice’s February 7, 2004, meeting with the 9/11 Commission, “She recalled that in the first Camp David session [on September 15-16, 2001] chaired by the President [Bush], [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld asked what the administration should do about Iraq. Deputy Secretary [of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz made the case for […]
9/16/2001
“On September 16, 2001, the Sunday after the attacks, [Vice President Dick] Cheney invited [Meet the Press host Tim] Russert to the presidential retreat at Camp David for an hour long interview. …Russert asked Cheney what was the most difficult decision made during the course of the day. ‘Well, I suppose the toughest decision was […]
9/16/2001
On September 16, 2001, President “Bush told [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice that the first target of the war on terrorism was going to be Afghanistan. ‘We won’t do Iraq now,’ the president said, ‘we’re putting Iraq off. But eventually we’ll have to return to that question.’ ” – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page […]
9/16/2001
Vice President Dick Cheney made an appearance on Meet the Press on September 16, 2001. ” ‘If you provide sanctuary to terrorists, you face the full wrath of the United States of America,’ he told [host Tim] Russert… He warned this would be a war unlike any other, unlike the Gulf War he had led, […]
9/16/2001
“On September 16 [2001], as part of the White House-approved evacuation [of Saudi citizens], Prince Ahmed bin Salman, a nephew of King Fahd’s who is best known as the owner of famous racehorses, boards a flight in Lexington, Kentucky, to leave the United States. FBI officials meet and identify him, but he is not interrogated. […]