On May 6, 2003, journalist Nicholas Kristof wrote in The New York Times, regarding the Niger-Iraq yellowcake situation: ” ‘I’m told by a person involved in the Niger caper that more than a year ago the vice president’s [Dick Cheney’s] office asked for an investigation of the uranium deal, so a former U.S. ambassador to […]
2/15/2002
In an interview conducted by journalist Con Coughlin in February 2002, former U.S. diplomat “David Mack insisted that Washington did not sell any arms to Iraq. ‘We never provided any military equipment to Iraq,’ he said. ‘The only U.S. equipment we ever sent to Baghdad was two pearl-handled revolvers which Saddam asked for especially to […]
2/15/2002
“…in February [2002, U.K. Prime Minister Tony] Blair had his first meeting with [President] Bush when they declared their joint determination to contain the threat from Iraq.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Clare Short, An Honourable Deception?, Page 76 […]
2/15/2002
“Appearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in February 2002, [Director of Central Intelligence George] Tenet denied that the September 11 terrorist attacks represented a failure of American intelligence.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Bill Gertz, Breakdown, Page 59 […]
2/15/2002
“Dale Watson, the FBI’s intelligence chief, stated before a Senate hearing in February 2002 that the FBI was caught off guard by the [9/11] attack because most of the nineteen hijackers entered the country close to the fateful date.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Bill Gertz, Breakdown, Page […]
2/15/2002
Former Senator Bob Graham (D-FL), “who was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 2002, wrote an op-ed piece in the Washington Post on November 20, 2005: ‘In February 2002…after a briefing on the status of the war in Afghanistan, the commanding officer, General Tommy Franks, told me the war was being compromised […]
2/14/2002
” ‘It doesn’t mean that an invasion [of Iraq] is imminent,’ [Secretary of State Colin] Powell told the Financial Times [on February 14, 2002]… Sanctions and support for the Iraqi opposition were still firm pillars of [Bush] administration policy, he said, and ‘if there is ever a point where we believe it’s necessary to do […]
2/13/2002
Ron Fournier: “Mr. President, your advisors have long said that there needs to be regime change in Iraq. Are you looking at military action to achieve that goal? How could Saddam be toppled?” President George W. Bush: “Ron, I meant what I said the other night, that there are some nations in the world which develop […]
2/13/2002
“In February [13] 2002, eight months before the bombing of the French tanker Limburg, an online article appeared about the advantages of bombing tankers because ‘it is also well known that the American economy will not be able to endure whatsoever the rise in oil prices.’ ” – Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, The Next […]
2/13/2002
“In February [13] 2002, the New York Times revealed to the public that a branch of the Defense Department headed by John Poindexter–a former National Security Advisor to [President] Ronald Reagan…was working on a secret program known as ‘Total Information Awareness [TIA].’ This program, under the motto ‘Knowledge is Power,’ aimed to design a gargantuan […]