In their July 22, 2004, report, the 9/11 Commission agreed upon four overarching failures regarding the prevention of 9/11: “A ‘failure of imagination’ characterized our inability, at all levels of government and society, to appreciate the magnitude of the threat from al Qaeda and Islamist terrorism. A ‘failure of capabilities’ was a failure that limited […]
7/22/2004
The 9/11 Commission report of July 22, 2004, said, regarding the potential to prevent the attacks of September 11, 2001: “We identified ten ‘operational opportunities’ when we missed a chance to disrupt the 9/11 plot. Among those opportunities were: the failure to share information about the two hijackers [Nawaf al-] Hazmi and [Khalid al-] Midhar, […]
7/22/2004
The 9/11 Commission’s report on July 22, 2004, gave insights into assigning blame for 9/11: “The story of 9/11 is not a story of how a handful of government employees made mistakes; it is the story of how an entire government–across two administrations [Clinton and Bush] and many bureaucracies–failed to understand and adjust to the […]
7/22/2004
According to author Peter Lance: “The 9/11 Commission Report published in July [22] 2004 and later nominated for a National Book Award, concluded that the original World Trade Center bombing cell was made up of a ‘loosely based group of Sunni Islamists;’ further, that the 9/11 plot had originated not with [World Trade Center bomber] […]
7/22/2004
The 9/11 Commission Report was released on July 22, 2004. For the 604-page book, the Commission’s “staff had reportedly interviewed more than 1,200 people in ten countries, and reviewed more than two and one half million pages of documents. Yet the final report had some glaring omissions–among them its utter failure to tell the story […]
7/22/2004
“In July [22] 2004, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report, along with twenty-four recommendations. …The White House adopted twenty-two of the twenty-four recommendations. The call for ‘humane treatment’ [of detainees] was one of the two that the Bush Administration explicitly rejected.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Pages 280-281 […]
7/22/2004
The 9/11 Commission Report, released on July 22, 2004, said that the U.S. government “was hobbled by ‘failures of imagination, policy, capabilities, and management.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 211 […]
7/20/2004
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice “testified to the Sept. 11 panel [9/11 Commission] that she did not recall being briefed on the [15 page intelligence] report [written by the Clinton Administration] during the transition period to the Bush administration, and she said she did not read it until after the Sept. 11 attacks, when Vice […]
7/18/2004
According to a deposition on July 18, 2004, when Brigadier General Janis Karpinski mentioned that there were innocent people being held at a detention center in Iraq, “Maj. Gen. [Walter] Wojdakowski, the second most senior general in Iraq at the time [replied]: ‘I don’t care if we have 15,000 innocent civilians, we are winning the […]
7/15/2004
“He [Saddam Hussein] went on trial in an Iraqi court in July 2004.” [The 15th of the month for date sorting purpose only] – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 38 […]