During an appearance on 60 Minutes on March 21, 2004, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke “described in harrowing detail how President Bush had ignored the al Qaeda threat before the 9/11 attacks because he was focused instead on Iraq…” – Ron Suskind, The One Percent Doctrine, Page 306 […]
3/20/2004
When giving his Radio Address President Bush stated, “The liberation of Iraq was good for the Iraqi people, good for America, and good for the world. The fall of the Iraqi dictator has removed a source of violence, aggression, and instability from the Middle East. The worst regime in the region was given way to […]
3/19/2004
On March 19, 2004, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet released a top secret report. Regarding the collection of intelligence on terrorist threats, it read: “In some cases, CIA and FBI could have performed better together. [Redacted] The different organizational culture and goals of FBI and CIA sometimes got in the way of desired results. […]
3/19/2004
According to a top secret report from Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet on March 19, 2004: “None of Bin Ladin’s and al-Qa’ida’s extensive terrorist plotting, planning, recruiting, and training in the late 1990s would have been possible without the Taliban sanctuary in Afghanistan.” – CIA, “DCI Report: The Rise of UBL and Al-Qa’ida and […]
3/19/2004
According to a top secret report from Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet on March 19, 2004: “In the decade prior to the attacks on September 11, the Intelligence Community experienced a substantial decrease in personnel resources across the board. This reduction began in the wake of the demise of the Soviet Union and continued […]
3/19/2004
“The [Bush] administration’s claim set forth in a previously secret March 19, 2004, draft DOJ [Department of Justice] memo prepared by [Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel] Jack L. Goldsmith recognizes that everyone lawfully in Iraq is a protected person under the Geneva Conventions but argues that ‘protected persons,’ such as Iraqi nationals, can […]
3/19/2004
“In his draft opinion [on March 19, 2004], [Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel Jack] Goldsmith stated that Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention does not bar the deportation of undocumented aliens from occupied Iraq, or their ‘brief’ detention elsewhere for purposes of interrogation.” – Peter Margulies, Law’s Detour, Page 62 […]
3/17/2004
Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix was interviewed by CNN war correspondent Christiane Amanpour on March 17, 2004. “Amanpour pressed him…why did the U.S. invasion of Iraq seem in retrospect such a foreordained action? Partly it was because, despite the lack of evidence for remaining WMDs, the Bush administration continued to believe in them, […]
3/17/2004
Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix was interviewed by CNN war correspondent Christiane Amanpour on March 17, 2004. “Amanpour asked why, if those weapons [of mass destruction] had been destroyed, would Saddam have continued to let the world believe he still possessed them at the risk of losing his country? Blix surmised that the […]
3/17/2004
Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix was interviewed by CNN war correspondent Christiane Amanpour on March 17, 2004. “The primary difficulty with looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, said Blix, was the ‘problem of proving the negative. For example, how can you prove that there is not a tennis ball in this […]