On September 14, 2001, President’s Bush’s lawyers sought advice from the Justice Department regarding Bush’s use of war powers inside America. “Bush’s legal team was arguing that the President not only had power to defend the nation as he saw fit…he also had the power to override existing laws that Congress had specifically designed to […]
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9/14/2001
"TURKEY–Foreign Minister Ismail Cem pledged the government's help in tracking down those behind the attacks, but warned Washington against turning the events into a 'fight between two religions and different cultures.' " – “Around the World,” The New York Times, Sep. 14, 2001, […]
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On September 14, 2001, “Effective at 12:15 p.m., FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] reauthorized agricultural flight operations (crop dusting) under Part 137. Effective at 4:00 p.m., DOT [Department of Transportation] approved reopening of the airspace to certain general aviation flights. Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) operations were permitted, except within two areas under Temporary Flight Restrictions that […]
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“The Bush administration today [September 14, 2001] singled out Osama bin Laden, the Islamic militant who operates from Afghanistan, as a prime suspect in Tuesday’s [September 11, 2001] catastrophic terror attacks and vowed a comprehensive military campaign to demolish terrorist networks and topple regimes that harbor them.” – Elisabeth Bumiller and Jane Perlez, “Bush and […]
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On September 14, 2001, the State Department “delivered to the White House a paper titled ‘Game Plan for a Political-Military Strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan.’ The paper took it as a given that Bin Ladin would continue to act against the United States even while under Taliban control. It therefore detailed specific U.S. demands for […]
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Following the attacks on 9/11, “A few lawmakers were demanding a full declaration of war against international terrorism.” However, many lawmakers “were reluctant to make a formal declaration of war given the uncertainty over who the enemy is. ‘This is different than attacking an enemy who has a flag and a capital, with soldiers who […]
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“A [September 14, 2001] Defense Department paper for the Camp David briefing book on the strategic concept for the war on terrorism specified three priority targets for internal action: al Qaeda, the Taliban and Iraq. It argued that of the three, al Qaeda and Iraq posted a strategic threat to the United States. Iraq’s long-standing […]
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While at a news conference with Attorney General John Ashcroft on September 14, 2001, FBI Director Robert Mueller said, regarding the hijackers: ” ‘The fact that there were a number of individuals that happened to have received training at flight schools here is news, quite obviously. If we had understood that to be the case, […]
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Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith said, regarding retaliation for 9/11: “There was pressure on the President [Bush] to ‘go soon,’ he [Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld] told us [on September 14, 2001], but this created a danger that we might do ‘something hollow, ineffective, embarrassing.’ Because our first action would likely be ‘moderately […]
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“…President Bush declared, on September 14, 2001, that ‘a national emergency exists by reason of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, New York, New York, and the Pentagon, and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States.’ “ – Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency, Page 82 […]