President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney eventually agreed to be interviewed by the 9/11 Commission on April 29, 2004, “as long as they appeared together and no transcript or recording was made. The insistence that the two do the interview jointly set tongues wagging about a president who needed to lean on his vice […]
4/29/2004
“On April 29 [2004], the standoff in Fallujah [Iraq] was broken when General [James] Conway…brokered a deal in which responsibility for security in the city would be handed over to a new 1,000-man Iraqi militia, the Fallujah Protection Army (later named the Fallujah Brigade), headed by former Iraqi Army officers and staffed by former soldiers. […]
4/29/2004
“The White House finally gave up on its restrictions to the [classified] Clinton documents [it had been withholding from the 9/11 Commission], and the president himself [Bush] submitted to questioning by all ten Commissioners in an informal meeting with Vice President [Dick] Cheney on April 29 [2004]. But in a signal of just how seriously […]
4/28/2004
“In a [April 28] 2004 interview, [Undersecretary of Defense for Policy] Douglas Feith explained that, after September 11, the [Bush] administration asked the question, ‘Was Iraq involved in 9/11? We found no hard link. What about Iraq-al Qaeda links in general? Well, there were some, but that wasn’t the essence of the Saddam Hussein threat. […]
4/28/2004
60 Minutes first broke the news of the Abu Ghraib scandal in Iraq in a report on April 28, 2004. “When [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld first learned that there were pictures extant of naked, humiliated, and terrified prisoners being abused by cheerful Americans, he said, according to an official who was present, ‘I didn’t […]
4/28/2004
” ‘Americans did this to an Iraqi prisoner,’ the CBS 60 Minutes II broadcast on the evening of Wednesday, April 28 [2004] began. On the screen was a photograph of a hooded man draped in a crude shift, standing precariously on a box with his arms outstretched. Wires attached to various parts of his body […]
4/28/2004
On April 28, 2004, “60 Minutes had shown the [Abu Ghraib] abuse photos. Within hours, pictures of naked Iraqi prisoners, taunted and sexually humiliated by the MPs [military police]–including two smirking women soldiers–appeared on front pages and satellite television networks worldwide.” – L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq, Page 350 […]
4/28/2004
“…on April 28, 2004, the CBS News show 60 Minutes II aired the first graphic photos taken by American soldiers tormenting detainees in Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq]. …The photos depicted American soldiers grinning and giving thumbs-up signs as naked and hooded Iraqi prisoners were forced to perform simulated sex acts, wear leashes, pile into […]
4/28/2004
“On April 28, 2004…the first pictures from Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq] became public. [General Counsel of the U.S. Navy Alberto] Mora said, ‘I felt saddened and dismayed. Everything we had warned against in Guantanamo had happened–but in a different setting.’ ” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 233 […]
4/26/2004
According to information in an April 26, 2004, Newsweek article: “A hint could be found in [President George W.] Bush’s ready explanation as to why he had not gone to his father [former President George H.W. Bush] for advice on Iraq. ‘You know,’ he said, ‘he is the wrong father to appeal to in terms […]