“Newer revelations about interrogation tactics at Guantanamo were revealed in an ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] report to the Bush administration in July 2004. The ICRC labeled the Guantanamo interrogation process as ‘an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture.’ “ [The 15th of the month used […]
7/15/2004
Shortly after CIA Director George Tenet declared his resignation on July 11, 2004, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage turned down the job. “Armitage concluded that the penalty for disagreement in the Bush White House was an implied or explicitly stated accusation that you were not on the team. …’Their idea of diplomacy,’ Armitage said […]
7/15/2004
Former New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis observed in the New York Review of Books article, ‘Making Torture Legal,’ on July 15, 2004: “The Bush legal team…spent an extraordinary amount of effort figuring out how to steer top administration officials around criminal conduct. Their ‘memos,’ Lewis wrote, ‘read like the advice of a mob lawyer […]
7/14/2004
According to a declassified CIA report on July 14, 2004, captured 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “had become key in the U.S. government’s understanding of al Qaeda plots and personalities: ‘Debriefings since his detention have yielded…reports that have shed light on the plots, capabilities, the identity and location of al-Qa’ida operatives and affiliated terrorist organizations […]
7/14/2004
“The UK Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction presented by Lord Butler of Brockwell on July 14, 2004 expresses surprise that neither the British policy-makers nor the intelligence community in the UK conducted a formal re-evaluation of the quality of the intelligence, as the generally negative results of UNMOVIC [UN Monitoring, Verification and […]
7/14/2004
The Butler Report, the British government’s inquiry into intelligence on Iraq’s WMD programs, was released on July 14, 2004. It concluded: ” ‘As a result of our Review, and taking into account the evidence which has been found by the ISG [Iraq Survey Group] and debriefing of Iraqi personnel, we have reached the conclusion that […]
7/14/2004
On July 14, 2004, the Butler Report, the British inquiry into intelligence relating to Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, said: ” ‘We conclude that, on the basis of the intelligence assessments at the time, covering both Niger and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the statements on Iraqi attempts to buy uranium from Africa in […]
7/14/2004
Following the release of the Butler Report, the British study that declared the intelligence used to support the invasion of Iraq was ‘misused and exaggerated,’ U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair said to the House of Commons on July 14, 2004: ” ‘For any mistakes made, as the report finds, in good faith, I of course […]
7/14/2004
In early February 2004, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair established a committee to look into the intelligence gathered on WMD that led to the invasion of Iraq. The response was the Butler Report, which was published on July 14, 2004. “It produced a summary of the available intelligence and made it clear that the Prime […]
7/13/2004
9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh “Mohammed provided the CIA with an autobiographical statement, describing a rebellious childhood, his decision to join the Muslim Brotherhood as a teenager, and his time in the United States as a student at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, from where he graduated in 1986 with a degree in mechanical […]