“In mid-2002, word leaked to the press that the semiofficial Defense Policy Board, chaired by the durable cold warrior Richard Perle, had endorsed an assessment [on July 10, 2002] that Saudi Arabia wasn’t our friend when it came to terrorism. To be exact, the paper called Saudi Arabia ‘central to the self-destruction of the Arab […]
7/5/2002
Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State, Richard Haass, met with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice in early July 2002. When Haass brought up concerns about possibly going to war with Iraq, Rice responded: ” ‘You can save your breath, Richard. The president [Bush] has already made up his mind on Iraq.’ ” […]
7/5/2002
In early July 2002, Director of Policy Planning for the State Department, Richard Haass, met with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to discuss his concerns about a possible invasion of Iraq. “Rice immediately cut him off. ‘Save your breath,’ she told him, in Haass’s recollection [in an interview with author Elisabeth Bumiller on October 19, […]
7/5/2002
“In early July 2002 [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice told the State Department’s Richard Haass that [President] Bush had ‘made up his mind’ to go to war [in Iraq] absent some major capitulation by Saddam Hussein.’ ” [The 5th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 48 […]
7/4/2002
Egyptian-born “Hesham Mohamed Hedayet…shot several bystanders at the Los Angeles International Airport in July [4] 2002, killing three people.” – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next Attack, Page 54 […]
6/28/2002
“In its June [28] 2002 plan, the Joint Staff said that the U.S. objective in Iraq should be not only to end the threat from the Saddam Hussein regime, but to help us ‘convince or compel other countries to renounce WMD and support to terrorism.’ ” – Douglas Feith, War and Decision, Page 283 […]
6/27/2002
On June 27, 2002, Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo sent a memo to Assistant Attorney General Daniel Bryant titled, “Military Detention of United States Citizens.” In it, Yoo wrote that the President’s constitutional authority as Commander-in-Chief extended beyond the Non-Detention Act and allowed him to detain U.S. citizens. – John Yoo, “Applicability of 18 […]
6/26/2002
“In a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee [on June 26, 2002], Iraqi National Congress [INC] lobbyist Entifadh Qanbar describes the INC’s Information Collection Program, which is ‘designed to collect, analyze, and disseminate’ information from Iraq: ‘Defectors, reports, and raw intelligence are cultivated and analyzed and the results are reported through the INC newspaper [Al […]
6/26/2002
“In a little-noticed move at the [June 26-27, 2002] G8 [summit in Alberta, Canada], the key nations agreed billions of dollars to protect or eliminate sites of former Soviet states with WMD. Each nation agreed to undertake and did undertake comprehensive anti-terror legislation, tightened money-laundering rules that might be connected with trade in terror or […]
6/24/2002
President George W. Bush on bringing peace to the Middle East: “I’ve said in the past that nations are either with us or against us in the war on terror. To be counted on the side of peace, nations must act. Every leader actually committed to peace will end incitement to violence in official media, and publicly […]