“In July [20] 2007, President Bush signed an Executive Order [No. 13400] listing new interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects, yet it cast little light on what the limits of these ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques were. It is fair to assume that the Bush Administration knew it was in unchartered waters, and the likelihood that subsequent decisions […]
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7/20/2007
“On July 20, 2007, President Bush issued an Executive Order [No. 13400] interpreting Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions as it applied to the CIA’s program of detention and interrogation. In the Order, President Bush reiterated and reaffirmed his statement of February 7, 2002 that Common Article 3 did not apply to members of […]
7/20/2007
On July 20, 2007, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13440: “By the authority vested in me as President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40), the Military Commissions Act […]
7/19/2007
Pakistani President Purvez “Musharraf abandoned the truce with the Pakistani Taliban, sacked Governor [Ali Jan] Orakzai in Peshawar, and, on July 19, 2007, formally launched a military offensive in FATA [Federally Administered Tribal Areas].” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 385 […]
7/17/2007
“…although the April 2006 National Intelligence Estimate assessed that ‘the global jihadist movement is decentralized, lacks a coherent strategy, and is becoming more diffuse,’ the July [17] 2007 National Intelligence Estimate took a very different view, concluding that al Qaeda ‘has protected or regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability.’ ” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, […]
7/17/2007
“The CIA’s 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, released on July 17, 2007…said: ‘We judge that the United States currently is in a heightened threat environment.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 229 […]
7/15/2007
“A U.S. National Intelligence Estimate released in July [2007] indicated that al Qaeda had regained much of its operational capacity and remained determined to pursue its terrorist campaign against American targets abroad and in the United States.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Brian Michael Jenkins, Will Terrorists Go […]
7/15/2007
“According to the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)–a report reflecting the consensus of the entire intelligence community–al Qaeda itself, despite nearly six years of intense efforts by the United States and its allies to destroy the enterprise, had recovered much of its pre-9/11 strength. The NIE, which was released in July 2007, only days after […]
7/15/2007
“A separate, classified assessment of al Qaeda’s capabilities, prepared by the US National Counterterrorism Center and released in July 2007, echoed the NIE [National Intelligence Estimate] [also issued that month]. Titled Al-Qaeda Better Positioned to Strike the West, the assessment noted that al Qaeda had ‘regrouped to an extent not seen since 2001’ and had […]
7/15/2007
From a July 15, 2007 article in The Los Angeles Times: “According to U.S. estimates for 2007, at least 45 percent of the foreign fighters in Iraq came from Saudi Arabia and were the ones most frequently involved in suicide attacks. [An Associated Press story two days later said] Iraqi sources put the figure even […]