On October 30, 2001, “At the Pentagon, a covert Office of Strategic Influence (OSI), with a staff of fifteen, was established to plant helpful ‘news,’ some of it phony, with foreign media. The office was headed by Brigadier General Simon Worden of the air force, who reported to Douglas Feith, the undersecretary of defense for […]
10/29/2001
On October 29, 2001, CIA Director George “Tenet briefed the president [Bush] and his senior advisers about a supposedly credible threat that terrorists might blow up a radiological bomb in Washington or New York. Following Tenet’s briefing, [Vice President Dick] Cheney, who had spent decades involved in ‘Continuity of Government’ exercise designed to ensure that […]
10/29/2001
“…on the morning of October 29, 2001, [President] Bush and his senior advisers were bombarded with a new wave of intelligence reporting, much of it deemed credible, that suggested that terrorists were likely to strike the United States again the following week. The reporting indicated that terrorists might use conventional explosives to disperse radioactive material, […]
10/29/2001
“According to one report [Harvard Professor Matthew Bunn’s ‘Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Theft and Sabotage,’ published on October 29, 2001], the Taliban tried to recruit a former Soviet nuclear weapons expert, but Russian authorities disrupted the scheme.” – Brian Michael Jenkins, Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?, Page 87 […]
10/28/2001
A lot of criminal information on the 9/11 hijackers was uncovered by the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA, Germany’s version of the FBI), following a tip on October 28, 2001, to a suitcase full of papers written in Arabic. “In the six weeks following the attack, American and German investigators had established the money trail and for the […]
10/28/2001
“Since Sept. 11, the FBI’s manhunt has rounded up more than 800 people, but only 10 have been linked in any way to the hijackings–and those 10 are not talking. (Most of the suspects probably will turn out to be innocent.)” – “Bin Laden’s Invisible Network,” Newsweek, Oct. 28, 2001 […]
10/28/2001
In a Washington Post article on October 28, 2001, former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke wondered,” ‘How can a man in a cave [Osama bin Laden] outcommunicate the world’s leading communications society?’ ” – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Page 377 […]
10/27/2001
“A senior Israeli official said today [October 26, 2001] that the country’s intelligence services had not come up with any evidence linking Iraq to those [9/11] attacks, or to the anthrax scare in the United States. ‘We don’t see any evidence of Al Qaeda in Iraq,’ the official said. ‘Not as a base, not as […]
10/26/2001
The USA PATRIOT Act “was passed a mere six weeks after 9/11 [signed into law on October 26, 2001], without any meaningful deliberations or hearings. …In hundreds of provisions amending previous laws, the Patriot Act empowered [Bush] administration officials to spy on anyone, including Americans, with less basis for suspicion and less judicial review; it […]
10/26/2001
“[T]he Patriot Act [passed on October 26, 2001] accomplished something quite important, which was to break down the legal wall that had been blocking the flow of information between the CIA and the FBI.” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 245 […]