On September 25, 2001, Deputy Chief in the Office of Legal Counsel John Yoo sent a memorandum to the White House, titled ‘The President’s Constitutional Authority to Conduct Military Operations Against Terrorists and Nations Supporting Them.’ In it, he “collected over one hundred authorities–from the Constitution, statutes, presidential practice, and judicial opinions–to show that the […]
9/25/2001
On September 25, 2001, “John Yoo, a Justice Department lawyer in the Office of Legal Counsel, wrote an internal memorandum that argued that the government might use ‘electronic surveillance techniques and equipment that are more powerful and sophisticated than those available to law enforcement agencies in order to intercept telephonic communications and observe the movement […]
9/25/2001
“Today [September 25, 2001], for the second time in 24 hours, a message from [Taliban leader] Mullah [Mohammad] Omar surfaced, this time from a pro-Taliban news agency, the Afghan Islamic Press. The agency…presented the Sept. 11 attacks as a revenge for American policies toward Muslims. ‘The American people must know that the sad events that […]
9/25/2001
On September 25, 2001, “Interpol, the international police agency, issued a bulletin for the arrest of [al Qaeda second-in-command] Ayman al-Zawahiri.” – John F. Burns, “Pakistan Fights U.S. Move Linked to Anti-Taliban Drive,” The New York Times, Sep. 26, 2001 […]
9/25/2001
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul “Wolfowitz is said to be wedded to the position that Mr. bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network could not have carried out the [9/11] attack without Saddam Hussein’s help, the [senior Bush Administration] officials said.” – Elaine Sciolino, “U.S. Prepares to Brief NATO on Strategy to Fight bin Laden,” […]
9/25/2001
“A senior law enforcement official said that 17 of the 19 hijackers were not known to intelligence or law enforcement officials before the Sept. 11 attacks. Two of the hijackers, Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf alhamzi, were placed on the government’s official watch list for suspected terrorists before the attacks.” – Lowell Bergman and Don Van […]
9/25/2001
“On September 25, 2001, the Office of Legal Counsel issued another in a series of secret legal memos. …The memo, like [President] Bush’s address of a few days earlier, unapologetically crossed the line that Congress had drawn. …Some of the arguments that [Office of Legal Counsel Deputy Chief John] Yoo made…were astounding. …that Congress had […]
9/24/2001
Following President Bush’s Executive Order 13224 targeting terrorist financing on September 24, 2001, “the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) blocked terrorist assets and added new terrorist front, cover and sympathetic organisations to its existing list. …Within a month, US and foreign financial institutions froze nearly $100 million worth of terrorist assets, mostly associated with […]
9/24/2001
“On September 24, 2001, President Bush issued a new Executive Order [13224] targeting terrorist financing. He stated: ‘…because of the pervasiveness and expansiveness of the financial foundation of foreign terrorists, financial sanctions may be appropriate for those foreign persons that support or otherwise associate with these foreign terrorists. I also find that a need exists […]
9/24/2001
Since the attacks on 9/11, “Attorney General John Ashcroft said today [September 24, 2001] that 352 people had been arrested or detained and that an additional 392 people were being sought for questioning.” – Lowell Bergman and Don Van Natta Jr., “Agents Pursue German Leads On Terror Trail,” The New York Times, Sep. 25, 2001 […]