“General [Ricardo] Sanchez told CNN [on July 27, 2003] that Iraq ‘is what I would call a terrorist magnet…and that will prevent the American people from having to go through attacks back in the United States.’ “ – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 156 […]
7/27/2003
“The final report [by the Joint Inquiry of 9/11, released on July 24, 2003] was so incomplete that its co-chairman, Rep. Porter J. Goss (D-FL), admitted [on July 27, 2003], ‘I can tell you right now that I don’t know exactly how the plot was hatched. I don’t know the where, the when, and the […]
7/27/2003
On July 27, 2003, CIA chief weapons inspector David Kay said, in a briefing at CIA headquarters: ” ‘The biggest mistake we made was to let looting and lawlessness break out,’ Kay said. Iraq was a mess and that made his job vastly more difficult.” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 237 […]
7/25/2003
“On July 25 [2003], the White House deletes twenty-eight pages in a nine-hundred-page congressional report on 9/11. According to Senator Bob Graham, the reason for the censorship was simple. ‘They are protecting a foreign government,’ he said. The government in question was clearly Saudi Arabia.” – Craig Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Page […]
7/24/2003
President George W. Bush: “Our brave troops still face danger in Iraq because there are people there who hate the thought of a free society. They can’t stand freedom. And they’re dangerous. But we’re finding these terrorists, as well, and we’re bringing them to justice. As you know, earlier this week, two of the favorite […]
7/24/2003
“One of the major findings in the Senate-House Joint Inquiry [which had the final report issued on July 24, 2003] into the intelligence failures that led to 9/11 was that agencies like the FBI failed to communicate with ‘local and state authorities,’ depriving the intelligence community of ‘access to potentially valuable information in the *war* […]
7/24/2003
“Senator Bob Graham, a Democratic candidate for president [from Florida] and a member of the original investigation [the Joint Inquiry into the truth behind 9/11], charged that the Bush administration’s apparent unwillingness to declassify the Joint Inquiry’s full report amounted to a ‘cover-up.’ By July 24 [2003], the Administration had negotiated a deal with the […]
7/24/2003
“Within months of the 9/11 attack, Congress announced that a joint panel combining the House and Senate Intelligence Committees would investigate the biggest mass murder in U.S. history. Known as the ‘Joint Inquiry,’ the committees spent ten months covering thirty years of intelligence failures. They left out whole sections of the government–including the executive branch–and […]
7/24/2003
“The Final Declassified Report of the Joint Inquiry [released July 24, 2003], the first congressional investigation into the 9/11 attacks…notes twelve separate reports in the seven years before 9/11 suggesting that terrorists might use airplanes as weapons.” – Peter Lance, Triple Cross, Pages 189-190 […]
7/24/2003
“The U.S. Agency for International Development and Bearing Point [business consulting firm] signed the company’s first Iraq contract on July 24, 2003. …The company specifies changes in every sector of the Iraqi economy–from trade rules to banking and financial services, to public services, agriculture, housing, media, elections, and the structure of the government itself. It […]