“A December [5] 2005 report card issued by the bipartisan leaders of the former 9/11 Commission, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, gave the government an F in categories such as air passenger prescreening, the allocation of homeland security funds according to need rather than pork, and the securing of radio frequencies for emergency workers such […]
12/5/2005
According to a State Department transcript, on December 5, 2005, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, regarding accusations of the torture of detainees in secret prisons: ” ‘The United States does not permit, tolerate or condone torture under any circumstances… The United States does not transport and has not transported detainees from one country to […]
12/5/2005
On December 5, 2005, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice “asserted that the United States does not transport terrorism suspects ‘for the purpose of interrogation using torture’ and ‘will not transport anyone to a country when we believe he will be tortured.’ She added that ‘where appropriate, the United States seeks assurances that transferred persons will […]
12/5/2005
To determine if the U.S. government is now able to prevent another 9/11 scenario, the 9/11 Public Discourse Project presented a briefing on December 5, 2005: ” ‘Many obvious steps that the American people assume have been completed, have not been. Our leadership is distracted. Some of these failures are shocking. Four years after 9/11: […]
12/5/2005
On December 5, 2005, “the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, a watchdog group established by the [9/11] commission…to monitor the Bush administration and grade it on its efforts to comply with their [41] recommendations [to improve national security], gave the administration seventeen F’s and D’s. They gave the administration only one A, an A minus at […]
12/4/2005
On December 4, 2005, “In joint appearances on radio and television news programs [former 9/11 Commission chairmen and current leaders of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project Thomas] Kean and [Lee] Hamilton decried what they viewed as a lack of attention to the threat of terrorism in Washington. ‘It’s not a priority for the government right […]
12/1/2005
“On December 1, 2005, during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who as White House Counsel had previously abetted denials of detainee rights and protections under the laws of war, stated that what happened at Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq] was ‘shocking,’ ‘horrific,’ and not allowed. Despite his denial […]
11/30/2005
President "Bush opened a series of five speeches on the war [in Iraq] on November 30 [2005] at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis [Maryland]. [National Security Council staffer Peter] Feaver helped draft a thirty-five page 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq' mainly to prove that Bush had one. Feaver originally used the word 'success,' […]
11/30/2005
“As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq. The articles, written by U.S. military ‘information operations’ troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with […]
11/30/2005
" 'Victory,' President Bush declared to the Naval Academy on November 30 [2005], would come 'when the terrorists and Saddamists can no longer threaten Iraq's democracy, when the Iraqi security forces can provide for the safety of their own citizens, and when Iraq is not a safe haven for terrorists to plot new attacks on […]