“In January 2000 he [deputy chief of Alec Station Tom Wilshire] had spiked the message drafted by Doug Miller, one of the FBI agents assigned to the station, alerting his headquarters to [future 9/11 hijacker Khalid al-] Mihdhar’s U.S. visa and New York travel plans. Wilshire also never alerted the State Department, which would have […]
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1/15/2000
“As [future National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice had written in a 2000 article in [the January-February 2000] Foreign Affairs, with respect to Iraq and other rogue states, ‘the first line of defense should be a clear and classical statement of deterrence–if they do acquire WMD, their weapons will be unusable because any attempt to use […]
1/15/2000
Future National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote an article for the January/February 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs, which summed up future President Bush’s foreign policy. The article “was unusually critical of the Clinton administration for deploying American forces in conflicts like Haiti, and questioned the moral impulse to spread American democracy when what really mattered, […]
1/15/2000
In January 2000, Ambassador for Counterterrorism Michael Sheehan phoned Taliban foreign minister Wakil Muttawakil and “read him an unambiguous statement from [President Bill] Clinton: ‘We will hold the Taliban leadership responsible for any attacks against US interests by al-Qaeda or any of its affiliated groups.’ Muttawakil, who was privately one of bin Laden’s most bitter […]
1/15/2000
In an article for the January/February 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs, future National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: ” ‘Saddam Hussein’s regime is isolated, his conventional military power has been severely weakened, his people live in poverty and terror, and he has no useful place in international politics. He is therefore determined to develop WMD. […]
1/15/2000
“In a Foreign Affairs article in [January/February] 2000 that presented the Republican foreign policy manifesto for the upcoming presidential election, [future National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice chided the Clinton team for having failed to implement ‘a disciplined and consistent foreign policy that separates the important from the trivial.’ By contrast, Rice promised, a Republican administration […]
1/15/2000
Future National Security Advisor “Condoleezza Rice had set the tone for the [Bush] administration in her [January/February] 2000 Foreign Affairs article, in which she argued, ‘Using the American armed forces as the world’s *911* will degrade capabilities [and] bog soldiers down in peacekeeping roles.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes […]
1/12/2000
“On January 12, 2000, the chief of the CIA’s al Qaeda unit briefed his bosses about the Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia] [terrorist summit] meeting. The official, apparently unaware that the meeting had broken up four days earlier, reported erroneously that the surveillance in Kuala Lumpur was continuing. Three days later, unbeknownst to U.S. officials, [future 9/11 […]
1/11/2000
Fearing upcoming attacks, counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke wrote to National Security Advisor Sandy Berger on January 11, 2000, saying: “The CIA, the FBI, Justice and the NSC [National Security Council] staff had come to two main conclusions. First, the U.S. disruption efforts thus far had ‘not put too much of a dent’ in Bin Ladin’s […]
1/8/2000
Following the summit of al Qaeda plotters in Malaysia, future 9/11 hijackers Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, along with African embassy bombing planner Khallad bin Atash, flew to Bangkok, Thailand, on January 8, 2000. All three had been tracked by members of the intelligence agencies. “And yet following the January 8 flight, both the FBI […]