“Larry Wilkerson, a retired Army colonel and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, publicly broke with the White House after Powell resigned at the end of Bush’s first term. …he told The Washington Post in early [January 19] 2006: ‘This is not a Republican administration, not in my view. This is […]
1/19/2006
“In his Fox News interview [on January 19, 2006] Vice President [Dick] Cheney did not give an inch on the necessity of the NSA [National Security Agency] spying or of the war itself. ‘When we look back on this, ten years hence,’ he insisted, ‘we will [see that we] have fundamentally changed the course of […]
1/17/2006
“Looking back on the period immediately after 9/11 responsible officials told New York Times reporters [on January 17, 2006] that National Security Agency eavesdropping had been streaming thousands of items for follow-up to the FBI and that the ‘unfiltered information was swamping investigators.’ Virtually all these tips ‘led to dead ends or innocent Americans.’ “ […]
1/15/2006
Journalist Ahmed Rashid recalled his January 2006 interviews with unidentified senior U.S. officials: ” ‘The kind of warnings and threat perceptions that passed across my desk every morning would not let me to sleep at night,’ one U.S. intelligence official told me. ‘It was without a doubt the scariest time of our lives–there was a […]
1/15/2006
“In January 2006, Iraq issued its first ever international bond, with a value of $2.8 billion, a twenty-two-year term and a coupon of 5.8 per cent in settlement of nearly $19 billion claims by commercial creditors. The London Financial Times described the debt deal for Iraq [on July 16, 2006] as an ‘effort to remove […]
1/15/2006
In January 2006, "concerned about Congress, the press, and the public using the terms 'warrantless wiretapping' and 'warrantless surveillance' to refer to the [NSA (National Security Agency)] program, [President] Bush attempted to rebrand it. His new name was the 'Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP),' something it had never been called before. Later, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales […]
1/15/2006
“In January 2006, Georges Sada, who had been deputy chief of Saddam Hussein’s air force, claimed Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war. Later that month, Moshe Yaalon, Israel’s top general at the time, said the same thing.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Karl […]
1/15/2006
“A January 2006 World Opinion poll showed that close to half of all Iraqis actually approved of deadly attacks on American soldiers.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 17 […]
1/15/2006
“In January 2006, Iraqi oil exports, the country’s cash lifeline, were down about 20 percent from a year earlier. ..The causes of the drop in oil exports included spotty maintenance at the refineries, poor weather in the south, inadequate storage capacity, attacks by the insurgents and criminal networks within the Iraqi ministries. …There was also […]
1/15/2006
Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld would insist that any abuse in Guantanamo was unrelated to his department’s policies. ‘…the investigations turned up nothing that suggested that there was any policy in the department other than humane treatment,’ Rumsfeld said in January 2006.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Jane […]