“In a series of conversations and meetings in November 2002, [FBI Special Agent Jim] Clemente and several other FBI and Criminal Task Force members confronted General [Geoffrey] Miller, who by then had taken over the military command [at Guantanamo]. They warned him strongly that the cruel and degrading interrogation approaches under contemplation for [potential 20th […]
11/15/2002
“In November 2002 the Saudi embassy in Washington gave the finger to the State Department and federal law officials, providing a new passport for the wife of a suspected al Qaeda sympathizer and slipping her and her five children out of the U.S. after she was subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury.” [The […]
11/15/2002
Secretary of Defense “Donald Rumsfeld, taking the line of many other senior Bush officials, told CBS News [on November 15, 2002] that the projected war ‘has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.’ ” – Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11, Page 190 […]
11/15/2002
” ‘For years, individuals and charities based in Saudi Arabia have been the most important source of funds for al Qaeda,’ the Council on Foreign Relations concluded in a November 2002 special report on the financing of terror.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Gerald Posner, Why America Slept, […]
11/14/2002
In a Floor Statement regarding the Homeland Security Bill on November 14, 2002, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) concluded that “the government had possessed not just unconnected dots before 9/11 but a ‘veritable blueprint’ for impending terrorist operations.” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 49 […]
11/14/2002
Appearing on PBS’s Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg on November 14, 2002, Defense Policy Board Adviser Richard Perle said that “Iraq represented perhaps the best hope for the democratic experiment in an Arab country. ‘I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions,’ he said, ‘and I […]
11/14/2002
“Interviewed [on November 14, 2002] on the PBS program ‘Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg,’ [Defense Policy Board Adviser Richard] Perle said he was ‘rather uncomfortable with the support that we gave Saddam during the war between Iraq and Iran.’ In his view, the right course immediately following that war would have been to say to […]
11/14/2002
On November 14, 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the invasion of Iraq was focused on WMD. ” ‘It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil. It has nothing to do with the religion.’ ” – John Esterbrook, “Weapons Chief Alert for Iraqi Deception,” CBS News, Aug. 2, 2009 […]
11/13/2002
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “Iraq announces it will comply with [UN] resolution 1441.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, Nov. 13, 2002 […]
11/13/2002
Following UN Security Council Resolution 1441, which gave Iraq ‘a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations,’ on November 13, 2002, Iraq sent the Security Council “a long letter that was both angry and lamenting but declared that it would ‘deal with’ the resolution.” – Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq, Page 90 […]