“Shortly after Sept. 11 [2001], when the United States sent out urgent inquiries for leads on the suspected hijackers, German officials quickly traced three of the ringleaders to an apartment in this affluent northern port [Hamburg]. …the names and address–Marienstrasse 54–suddenly seemed familiar, German investigators say, and then they realized why: in 1998 and 1999, […]
9/15/2001
In war council meetings on September 15-16, 2001, Director of Central Intelligence George “Tenet described a plan for collecting intelligence and mounting covert operations. He proposed inserting CIA teams into Afghanistan to work with Afghan warlords who would join the fight against al Qaeda. These CIA teams would act jointly with the military’s Special Operations […]
9/15/2001
“Almost immediately after September 11, 2001…for the first time in its history, the United States sanctioned government officials to physically and psychologically torment U.S.-held captives, making torture the official law of the land in all but name.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Pages […]
9/15/2001
According to a March 21, 2004, interview on 60 Minutes, counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke said: “In the days after 9/11 [2001], [President Bush] pushed him to tie Iraq to the attacks: ‘The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut the door, and said, *I want you to find whether […]
9/15/2001
“As reported by Jason Vest in the Village Voice (November 27, 2001): ‘According to intelligence and diplomatic sources, [Secretary of State Colin] Powell–as well as [Director of Central Intelligence] George Tenet–was infuriated by a private intelligence endeavor arranged by [Deputy Defense Secretary Paul] Wolfowitz in September [2001]. Apparently obsessed with proving a convoluted theory put […]
9/15/2001
During a meeting at Camp David on September 15, 2001, President Bush and his advisors, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz–all part of Bush Sr.’s Gulf War deliberations–discussed how to respond to the 9/11 attacks. Bush said: ” ‘one of the things I wasn’t going to […]
9/15/2001
While discussing a response to the 9/11 attacks at Camp David on September 15, 2001, ” ‘There was a long discussion during the day about what place if any Iraq should have in a counterterrorist strategy,’ he [Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz] said later. …’the disagreement was whether it [Iraq] should be in the immediate […]
9/15/2001
Former CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “One of CIA’s senior Middle East experts recently told me of a meeting he had in the White House a few days after 9/11 [mid-September 2001]. A senior NSC [National Security Council] official told him that the [Bush] administration wanted to get rid of Saddam. Our analyst said, ‘If […]
9/15/2001
On September 15, 2001, then-CIA Director George Tenet said, regarding a meeting with President Bush and the war cabinet: “We were going to strangle their [Al Qaida’s] safe haven in Afghanistan, seal the borders, go after the leadership, shut off their money and pursue al-Qa’ida terrorists in ninety-two countries around the world.” – George Tenet […]
9/15/2001
Shortly after 9/11, Chairman of the Defense Board Advisory Committee Richard Perle commented that Iraq bore the responsibility for the attack. Then-CIA Director George Tenet noted: “I was stunned but said nothing. On September 11 [2001], I had scanned passenger manifests from the four hijacked airplanes that showed beyond a doubt that al-Qa’ida was behind […]