According to information in the Office of the Inspector General’s Terrorist Watchlist Report in May 2009, in regards to the FBI Terrorist Watchlist: “Bureaucratic glitches delayed listing of appropriate subjects in 78 percent of the cases studied… In over 10 percent of the cases studied, the FBI never added an individual’s name to the watchlist, […]
5/14/2009
“On May 14, 2009, fifty-one House Democrats voted against continued funding for the Afghan War.” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 315 […]
5/13/2009
Speaking before a Senate subcommittee on May 13, 2009, former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan said: “The decision to use the harsh interrogation methods ‘was one of the worst and most harmful decisions made in our efforts against al Qaida.’ ” – Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel, “Cheney’s Speech Ignored Some Inconvenient Truths,” […]
5/13/2009
On May 13, 2009, former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan said to a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts, regarding the use of enhanced interrogation techniques: ” ‘I wish to do my part to ensure that we never again use these…techniques instead of the tried, tested and successful ones–the ones that are […]
5/13/2009
On May 13, 2009, former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan “told members of a key Senate Judiciary subcommittee that…’[enhanced interrogation] techniques, from an operational perspective, are ineffective, slow and unreliable, and harmful to our efforts to defeat al Qaeda. …From my experience–and I speak as someone who has personally interrogated many terrorists and elicited important […]
5/11/2009
On May 11, 2009, “Commander of US forces in Afghanistan, General David McKiernan, replaced with General Stanley McChrystal.” – Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, Page 271 […]
5/10/2009
At a dinner for Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Washington, D.C., on May 10, 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said: ” ‘We’re not leaving Afghanistan prematurely… In fact, we’re not ever leaving at all.’ ” – Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars, Page 354 […]
4/30/2009
“The UK units finished combat in Iraq on April 30, 2009.” – Andrew Langley, Bush, Blair, and Iraq: Days of Decision, Page 43 […]
4/30/2009
As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “Completion of the main UK military mission in Iraq.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, April 30, 2009 […]
4/30/2009
President “Barack Obama got it right when he declassified the OLC [Office of Legal Counsel] [torture] memos of 2002 and 2005 [on April 16, 2009]: ‘Torture,’ the president of the United States said [on April 30, 2009], ‘corrodes the character of a country.’ ” – John Kiriakou with Michael Ruby, The Reluctant Spy, Page 140 […]