“FBI agent Coleen Rowley wrote a critical letter to FBI director Robert S. Mueller III stating that senior FBI officials put up a bureaucratic ‘roadblock’ that hampered the investigation of [suspected terrorist Zacarias] Moussaoui before September 11. Rowley stated in the thirteen-page missive of May 21, 2002, that Minneapolis FBI agents were so frustrated by […]
5/19/2002
In an appearance on Meet the Press on May 19, 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney said: ” ‘[We] know [Saddam is] working on nuclear.’ ” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 237 […]
5/19/2002
Vice President Dick Cheney was interviewed on Meet the Press on May 19, 2002. “He used the appearance to highlight the nexus between terrorists and rogue states, particularly Iraq. ‘It takes us back to the *axis of evil* speech the president [Bush] made at the State of the Union, our concerns about Iraq, our concerns […]
5/17/2002
Speaking in the Rose Garden on May 17, 2002, President Bush said: ” ‘Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people… We will use the might of America to protect the American people.’ […]
5/17/2002
“In May [17] 2002, he [Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar] gave an interview: ‘The battle [in Afghanistan] has [just] started, its fire has been kindled and it will engulf the White House, seat of injustice and tyranny.’ The future for the United States in Afghanistan, he said, was ‘fire, hell and total defeat.’ ” – […]
5/17/2002
“In May [17, 2002], Senator Joseph Biden [D-DE] warned, ‘America has replaced the Taliban with the warlords. Warlords are still on the US payroll but that hasn’t bought a cessation of violence. Not only is the US failing to rein in the warlords, we are actually making them the centerpiece of our strategy.’ ” – […]
5/16/2002
On May 16, 2002, in a press briefing at the White House to discuss the August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Brief (PDB), which had been disclosed by news outlets the day before, “Steve Holland of Reuters pressed her [National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice]. ‘Why shouldn’t this be seen as an intelligence failure, that you were […]
5/16/2002
On May 16, 2002, in a press briefing at the White House to discuss the August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Brief (PDB), which had been disclosed by news outlets the day before, National Security Advisor Condoleezza “Rice discussed the PDB only in generalities, and with a detached, academic air. ‘Now, on August 6, the president […]
5/16/2002
In a May 16, 2002, press conference to respond to the leaking of the August 6, 2001, Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB), National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice “described the PDB as a ‘warning briefing but an analytic report’ about al-Qaeda threats and said that it contained ‘the most generalized kind of information–there was no time, there […]
5/16/2002
“Instead of releasing the [August 6, 2001] PDB [President’s Daily Briefing] or at least offering a detailed explanation of what was in the document, the White House chose to have National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice hold a news conference at the White House [on May 16, 2002] in which she raised as many questions about […]