According to information in a Los Angeles Times article on September 10, 2004: “While the exact number of prisoners detained in the CIA program is unknown, by 2004 it was estimated that at least 100 had been held in facilities operated by the agency in undisclosed locations around the world.” – M. Cherif Bassiouni, The […]
9/2/2004
President Bush spoke at the Republican National Convention in New York on September 2, 2004, after accepting the nomination. ” ‘I will never relent in defending America–whatever it takes,’ he said. He defended his decision to invade Iraq by recalling that [Democratic presidential nominee John] Kerry supported it too, and he linked it to the […]
9/2/2004
According to a September 2, 2004, New York Sun article: “Democratic Congressman John Conyers of Michigan saw in the investigation [of AIPAC, an American Jewish lobby] a much more frightening picture, one in which a ‘rogue element in the American government may have been working with a foreign government,’ that rogue element being a small […]
8/31/2004
“By the end of August [2004], there were almost 25,000 coalition troops in Afghanistan, about 16,500 of them Americans.” [The 31st of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Tommy Franks with Malcolm McConnell, American Soldier, Page 577 […]
8/29/2004
“The Franklin investigation [of AIPAC, an American Jewish lobby], writes correspondent Nathan Guttman in Israel’s Haaretz [on August 29, 2004], ‘breathes new life into the assertion that Israeli, and not American, interests led to the war in Iraq.’ What is now clear is that the original justification for the invasion–that the United States was in […]
8/27/2004
“[T]he creation of the National Counterterrorism Center [via Executive Order 13354 on August 27, 2004] led to various government agencies sharing data and analyzing it under one roof…” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 245 […]
8/26/2004
“As early as August 26, 2004, notable people, including 11 members of Parliament tried to have him [Blair] “impeached” (tried in court) for misleading the public over Iraq.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 49 […]
8/25/2004
The Army’s investigation of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, known as the Fay Report, was issued on August 25, 2004. “The report…criticized Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq when the abuse took place. ‘We did not find Sanchez culpable, but we did find him responsible for the things […]
8/25/2004
The Army’s investigation of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, known as the Fay Report, was issued on August 25, 2004. “The report, which was based on 170 interviews and reviews of 9,000 documents, detailed 44 incidents of abuse ranging from unlawful stress positions to using dogs in the course of interrogations. One […]
8/25/2004
“The latest investigation into the Abu Ghraib scandal found 44 instances of abuse by soldiers and civilian contractors at the prison in Iraq, some of which amounted to torture, one of the two generals who led the Army effort said Wednesday [August 25, 2004]. ‘There were some instances where torture was being used,’ Maj. Gen. […]