According to the Silberman-Robb Commission’s report, which was released on March 31, 2005: ” ‘We found no evidence that the doubts [of the reliability of Iraqi informant Curveball] were conveyed by CIA leadership to policymakers in general–or Secretary [of State Colin] Powell in particular. …It is unclear precisely how and why these serious concerns about […]
3/31/2005
According to the Silberman-Robb Commission’s report, which was released on March 31, 2005: ” ‘The Intelligence Community fundamentally misjudged the status of Iraq’s BW [biological weapons] programs. …the central basis for the Intelligence Community’s pre-war assessments about Iraq’s BW program was the reporting of a single human source, Curveball. This single source, whose reporting came […]
3/31/2005
“[A] section of the findings of the presidential commission chaired by Laurence H. Silberman and Charles S. Robb, released March 31, 2005… report that the intelligence community was ‘dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction,’ … It pinned the blame for this failure on the community’s ‘inability […]
3/31/2005
“The Robb-Silberman Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction reported in March [31] 2005 that ‘hundreds of serious press leaks’ about our [intelligence] collection capabilities ‘have significantly impaired U.S. capabilities against our hardest targets’ and done ‘grave harm to our national security.’ “ – Jack Goldsmith, The Terror […]
3/31/2005
” ‘In front of the whole world, the United States government asserted that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted his nuclear weapons program, had biological weapons and mobile biological weapon production facilities and was producing chemical weapons,’ the Robb-Silberman commission noted six months later [on March 31, 2005]. ‘And not one bit of it could be confirmed […]
3/30/2005
“The [Bush] administration had been ‘too loud, too direct’ in trying to convince others to back its Iraq invasion, and [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld’s caustic rhetoric had alienated traditional U.S. allies, he [former Secretary of State Colin Powell] told a German magazine [Stern, published on March 30, 2005].” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life […]
3/29/2005
During his speech on freedom and democracy, President George W. Bush stated: “This democracy will need defending. And Iraqi security forces are taking on greater responsibility in the fight against the insurgents and terrorists. Today, more than 145,000 Iraqis have been trained and are serving courageously across Iraq. In recent weeks, they’ve taken the lead in offensive […]
3/29/2005
On March 29, 2005, the head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, “Lt.-Gen. David Barno had prophetically warned, ‘Al Qaeda clearly still wants to see the Taliban stage some kind of a comeback in Afghanistan. …They’re still providing financing, with guidance, training, support and selected individuals that help lead and motivate the operations in Afghanistan. They […]
3/27/2005
On March 27, 2005, author Peter Lance interviewed Rafael ‘Raffy’ Garcia III, President of Mega Data, one of Manila’s largest information technology companies. Garcia had been hired by the Philippines National Police to decode information on World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef’s laptop. Besides uncovering information on plots for Bojinka and the assassination of Pope […]
3/25/2005
According to information in an Associated Press article on March 25, 2005: “The U.S. military now admitted for the first time that twenty-seven prisoners had died in detention in Iraq and Afghanistan, out of an estimated fifty thousand detainees held in both countries since 9/11. The Pentagon admitted to the deaths of seven prisoners in […]