On October 2, 2002, “Senator Carl Levin [D-MI], the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, asked [Deputy CIA Director] John McLaughlin whether Hussein was likely to attack American interests with biological or chemical weapons. McLaughlin said the chances were low, but if the United States attacked Iraq, then the chances would be ‘pretty high.’ […]
10/2/2002
“On October 2, 2002, Jonathon Fredman, Counsel to CIA Counter-terrorism Center, attended a meeting at Guantanamo with Staff Judge Advocate Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, Maj. Gen. [Michael] Dunlavey, and Lt. Col. Jerald Phifer in which they discussed use of harsh interrogation techniques. …Beaver’s comments coincide with the DOJ’s [Department of Justice’s] methods of creating legal […]
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On October 2, 2002, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) said the impending invasion of Iraq was ” ‘a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.’ ” – Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Little America, Page 113 […]
10/2/2002
“[A]t an October 2, 2002, meeting between CIA and military lawyers and military intelligence officials on how to counter the resistance of Guantanamo detainees to military interrogation… A senior CIA lawyer at the meeting, John Fredman, explained that whether harsh interrogation amount to torture ‘is a matter of perception.’ The only sure test for torture […]
10/2/2002
“On October 2, 2002, the Deputy DCI [Director of Central Intelligence, John McLaughlin] testified before the SSCI [Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]. Senator Jon Kyl [R-AZ] asked the Deputy DCI whether he had read the British white paper [claiming Iraq sought uranium from Niger] and whether he disagreed with anything in the report. The Deputy […]
10/2/2002
“After September 11, interrogators at the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency wanted to know how far they could go [in terms of coercive interrogation]. [According to the minutes of an October 2, 2002, Counter Resistance Strategy Meeting,] One CIA lawyer [Jonathan Fredman] advised that the definition of torture is ‘basically subject to perception. If […]
10/2/2002
“On October 2, 2002, as the Bush administration prepared for the invasion [of Iraq], the young Illinois Senator [Barack Obama (D)] described it as a ‘dumb war’ in a speech at the Federal Plaza in Chicago. Saddam Hussein was a ‘brutal man’ but posed ‘no imminent and direct threat to the United States.’ ‘In concert […]
10/2/2002
According to an article in The Los Angeles Times on October 2, 2002: “the Justice Department’s inspector general [Glenn Fine] issued a report declaring that despite the restructuring, the Bureau’s [FBI’s] failure to create an overall terrorist assessment had actually put the nation at increased risk of future attacks.” – Peter Lance, 1000 Years For […]
10/2/2002
On October 2, 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate signed the ‘Joint Resolution to authorize the use of military action towards Iraq,’ stating, “Whereas in 1998 Congress concluded that Iraq’s continuing weapons of mass destruction programs threatened vital United States interests and international peace and security, declared Iraq to be in […]
10/2/2002
“At 1:15 P.M. On October 2 [2002], [President] Bush appeared with dozens of lawmakers…in the [White House’s] Rose Garden to announce agreement on a bipartisan resolution.” The resolution was to give Bush the authority to use all means that he determined to be appropriate, including force, to deal with the threat posed by Iraq. “Declaring […]