On October 7, 2002, President Bush gave a televised speech which was carried only by cable channels CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News Channel. “Bush’s core argument was that Iraq ‘gathers the most serious dangers of our age in one place’ and that, ‘The danger is already significant and grows worse with time…Facing clear evidence of […]
10/7/2002
According to a New York Times article on July 13, 2003: “a claim that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy 550 tons of uranium ore from Niger had been dropped from a speech given by President Bush in Cincinnati [Ohio] back on October 7, 2002. CIA director George Tenet, the story said, had personally warned […]
10/7/2002
“Culminating the campaign that had begun with [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s VFW [Veterans of Foreign Wars] speech six weeks earlier [August 26, 2002], [President] Bush traveled to Cincinnati [Ohio] in early October [7, 2002] to make his case to the American people: The decades-old policy of containment in Iraq hadn’t worked, even when executed aggressively, […]
10/6/2002
“On October 6, 2002, Yemeni operatives affiliated with al Qaeda drove a boat bomb alongside the French supertanker Limburg, which was carrying almost 400,000 barrels of oil of the coast of Aden. The attack killed one sailor but failed to sink the ship or start the inferno the terrorists hoped for.” – Daniel Benjamin and […]
10/6/2002
From the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s July 7, 2004, report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq: on October 6, 2002, “After recommending that a reference to the Iraqi pursuit of African uranium be stricken from a draft of a presidential speech set for October 7, the CIA faxes a […]
10/5/2002
While vetting a speech President Bush was to deliver on October 7, 2002, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the CIA took exception to a line “saying that Saddam ‘has been caught attempting to purchase up to 500 metric tons of uranium oxide from Africa–an essential ingredient in the enrichment process.’ In response, on October 5 [2002], the […]
10/5/2002
CIA Director George “Tenet had advised Deputy NSC [National Security Council] Advisor Stephen Hadley personally by telephone in [early] October 2002 to remove a line referring to the uranium claim from a speech that [President] Bush was about to give in Cincinnati [on October 7, 2002].” [The 5th of the month used for date sorting […]
10/5/2002
“Six months after the [January 28, 2003] State of the Union address, it emerged that chief White House speechwriter Michael Gerson, along with [Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen] Hadley and others, had received a CIA memo dated October 5, 2002, which objected to the [Iraq-Niger] uranium claim in a White House speech draft.” – Stefan […]
10/5/2002
“On October 5 [2002], [CIA director George] Tenet…[read] a draft of the President’s [Bush’s] upcoming speech slated for two days hence in Cincinnati [Ohio], and carrying the claim that Saddam Hussein’s ‘regime has been caught attempting to purchase’ uranium in Niger. The CIA immediately fired off a memo to Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley […]
10/4/2002
Following the release of the classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on October 1, 2002, Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) called for an unclassified version as well. “In response, on October 4 [2002], [CIA Director George] Tenet presented a twenty-five-page document called ‘Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs.’ But it was exactly the opposite of what Graham […]