In a war cabinet meeting at Camp David on September 15, 2001, “When [Secretary of State Colin] Powell remarked that the international coalition that was quickly coming together against al-Qaeda would likely fall apart if the military targets went beyond Afghanistan, the president [Bush] shrugged and said he didn’t care if they had to go […]
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“At Camp David that morning [September 15, 2001], [Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul] Wolfowitz seized [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice’s opening about possible military campaigns beyond Afghanistan and launched into an argument for striking at Saddam Hussein. …He told the gathering at Camp David, according to one account, that there was a 10 to 50 […]
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In a meeting at Camp David on the morning of September 15, 2001, “the war council participants had been given briefing materials that included a Defense Department paper specifying three priority targets for initial action in a war: Al Qaeda, the Taliban (which was the ruling regime of Afghanistan), and Iraq.” – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza […]
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In a radio address to the nation on September 15, 2001, President Bush said: ” ‘We are planning a broad and sustained campaign to secure our country and eradicate the evil of terrorism.’ ” – Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 139 […]
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“As [Secretary of State] Colin Powell told an interviewer a week after the 9/11 attacks [mid-September 2001], ‘Iraq isn’t going anywhere. It’s in a fairly weakened state. It’s doing some things we don’t like. We will continue to contain it.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Jeffrey Record, […]
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“Congress passed a resolution just days after the September 11 [2001] attacks granting the president the authority to wage a global war on terrorism, and Bush administration lawyers later decided that the war resolution provided the legal basis they needed to support the NSA [National Security Administration] operation to eavesdrop on American citizens.” [The 15th […]
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“In the days after 9/11 [mid-September 2001], President Bush signed a covert action finding authorizing the CIA to kill or capture and detain al Qaeda operatives around the world, but the finding was silent on the interrogation tactics to be used on those in detention.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes […]
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A September 2001 article in The Atlantic Monthly quoted a former CIA Near East Division operative, who said: ” ‘The CIA probably doesn’t have a single truly qualified Arabic-speaking officer of Middle Eastern background who can play a believable Muslim fundamentalist who would volunteer to spend years of his life with shitty food and no […]
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“In a press conference immediately following 9/11 [2001], FBI director Robert Mueller said categorically that the FBI had no knowledge of Arabs attending American flight schools.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Gerald Posner, Why America Slept, Page 197 […]
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“The Knight Ridder newspaper group reported today [October 12, 2001] that senior Pentagon officials authorized [former CIA director R. James] Woolsey to fly to London last month [September 2001] on a government plane, accompanied by Justice and Defense Department officials, on a mission to gather evidence linking Hussein to the Sept. 11 attacks.” [The 15th […]