In National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice’s February 7, 2004, meeting with the 9/11 Commission, “She recalled that in the first Camp David session [on September 15-16, 2001] chaired by the President [Bush], [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld asked what the administration should do about Iraq. Deputy Secretary [of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz made the case for […]
9/16/2001
“Vice President [Dick] Cheney even told Tim Russert on Meet the Press on September 16, 2001, that ‘Saddam Hussein’s bottled up at this point,’ and he acknowledged that there was no evidence linking Saddam to 9/11.” – Scott McClellan, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, Page 136 […]
9/16/2001
National Security Advisor Condoleezza “Rice said that when President Bush called her on Sunday, September 16 [2001], he said the focus would be on Afghanistan, although he still wanted plans for Iraq should the country take some action or the administration eventually determine that it had been involved in the 9/11 attacks.” – 9/11 Commission, […]
9/16/2001
“Appearing on Meet the Press [on September 16, 2001], [Vice President Dick] Cheney gave a memorable description of how the [Bush] administration viewed the continuing [terror] threat and how it planned to respond. ‘We’ll have to work sort of the dark side, if you will,’ Cheney explained.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Pages 9-10 […]
9/16/2001
On September 16, 2001, Counterterrorist Center Director Cofer Black delivered a proposal which “included the inauguration of secret paramilitary death squads authorized to hunt and kill prime terror suspects anywhere on earth. A week earlier, these deaths would have been classified as illegal assassinations. …Black’s proposal was nothing less than a global plan for a […]
9/16/2001
“Al Jazeera broadcast a statement on Sunday [September 16, 2001] that it attributed to the world’s most wanted fugitive [bin Laden]. ‘I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks, which seem to have been planned by people for personal reasons,’ read the message, whose authenticity was impossible to […]
9/16/2001
“The government…said that there was a ‘working agreement’ among Mr. bin Laden, Iran and the National Islamic Front of Sudan to ‘work together against the United States, Israel and the West.’ ” – Judith Miller, Benjamin Weiser, and Ralph Blumenthal, “Mass-destruction Weapons Feared in One-two Punch,” The New York Times, Sep. 16, 2001 […]
9/16/2001
“Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has asked Saudi Arabia, America’s closest ally in the Persian Gulf, and the United Arab Emirates to sever diplomatic relations with the Taliban in Afghanistan, senior administration officials said today [September 16, 2001].” – Elaine Sciolino, “Long Battle Seen,” The New York Times, Sep. 16, 2001 […]
9/16/2001
“Steven Emerson, a terrorism expert who has called for a crackdown on terrorist networks in this country, said that none of the names [of the 9/11 hijackers] had come up in his extensive research on many of the 5,000 militants who have received training in Mr. bin Laden’s camps. ‘That is not surprising,’ Mr. Emerson […]
9/16/2001
On September 16, 2001, CIA head George Tenet wrote a memorandum which called for the coordination of efforts between different factions of the intelligence community: ” ‘The agency [CIA] must give people the authority to do things they might not ordinarily be allowed to do,’ the memo declared, according to an official who described the […]