In a speech at CIA headquarters on September 26, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘We are on a mission to say to the rest of the world, come with us–come with us, stand by our side to defeat the evil-doers who would like to rid the world of freedom as we know it.’ ” – […]
9/26/2001
CIA Chief George “Tenet dispatched the CIA’s covert paramilitary team, code-named Jawbreaker, into Afghanistan 15 days after the [9/11] attacks [September 26, 2001]. Bombing began 11 days later, on October 7, 2001. The campaign represented some of the CIA’s finest moments after 9/11…” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 78 […]
9/26/2001
President Bush “was not interested in creating a government to replace the Taliban should it fall as a result of American military strikes or internal unrest. ‘We’re not into nation building,’ he said. ‘We’re focused on justice.’ ” – Elisabeth Bumiller and Thom Shanker, “Bush Steps Up Appeal to Afghans to Rid Their Country of […]
9/25/2001
“Weeks after the 9/11 attacks [on September 25, 2001], Interpol issued an arrest warrant for [al Qaeda’s second-in-command Ayman] al-Zawahiri, alleging he ‘masterminded several terrorist operations in Egypt’ and accusing him of ‘criminal complicity and management for the purpose of committing premeditated murder.’ ” – “Al-Zawahiri has a Long History with Osama bin Laden, Terror,” […]
9/25/2001
In late September 2001, “Boeing executives met with Darlene Druyun, then deputy assistant secretary of the air force for acquisition. Boeing was facing severe financial difficulties in the wake of the airline slump that followed 9/11 and was looking for a bailout. It was therefore agreed at this and subsequent meetings that the air force […]
9/25/2001
Former President George W. Bush recalled: “In late September [2001], FBI Director Bob Mueller…told me there were 331 potential al Qaeda operatives inside the United States.” [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – George W. Bush, Decision Points, Page 154 […]
9/25/2001
“According to Bruce Fein, a constitutional lawyer who served as associate deputy attorney general under [President] Ronald Reagan, the new domestic spying program that eventually emerged from this [September 25, 2001] authorization [by Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo] flouted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) by directing the […]
9/25/2001
“Since 1978, the warrantless interception of communications to and from the United States had been prohibited by federal law. But [Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel John] Yoo’s September 25 [2001] memo authorized such surveillance, in secret, ‘incident to’ the authority Congress had just granted. The memo dramatically enhanced the power of the […]
9/25/2001
In a speech to employees of the FBI on September 25, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘I see things this way: the people who did this act on America [on 9/11]…are evil people. They don’t represent an ideology, they don’t represent a legitimate political group of people. They’re flat evil. That’s all they can think […]
9/25/2001
“On September 25, 2001, I [Deputy Chief in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), John Yoo] signed an OLC opinion issued to the White House which concluded that a foreign attack had occurred on September 11, the United States was at war, and President Bush had full constitutional authority to launch attacks to destroy the […]