On March 20, 2000, “NSA [National Security Agency] intercepted a telephone call to [al Qaeda operative Ahmed Mohammed Ali] al-Hada’s house from a man who identified himself only as ‘Khaled.’ Unfortunately, because of the technology in use at the time, the agency did not know that the call it was monitoring had originated in the […]
3/17/2000
Former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney was interviewed by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia on March 17-18, 2000. Regarding not removing Saddam Hussein from power in the first Gulf War, he said: ” ‘I still think we made the right decision there [in Iraq]. …I don’t think we should have gone to […]
3/17/2000
Former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney was interviewed by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia on March 17-18, 2000. He discussed the build-up to the first Gulf War, when he rejected Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell’s original war plan. “Cheney ordered a rewrite that envisioned a left hook to […]
3/15/2000
“Hidden in the X-rated pictures on several pornographic Web sites and the posted comments on sports chat rooms may lie the encrypted blueprints of the next terrorist attack against the United States or its allies. It sounds farfetched, but U.S. officials and experts say it’s the latest method of communication being used by Osama bin […]
3/15/2000
“[W]hen [deputy chief of Alec Station Tom] Wilshire learned in March 2000 that [9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-] Hazmi had actually flown to Los Angeles two months earlier, he again failed to notify the FBI or even the agents working for him in his office.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] […]
3/15/2000
In 2007, the CIA’s Inspector General released a report on the CIA’s performance prior to 9/11. It read: “…by March 2000 fully fifty or sixty individuals within the CIA knew that two Al Qaeda suspects had come to America–but no one officially notified the FBI about this. …’The two guys’ names were just sitting in […]
3/15/2000
“The White House had ordered a review of American defenses, and the internal report, completed in March 2000, concluded that despite ten years of government programs to improve homeland defense, the country was vulnerable to attack. Citing the need for new joint federal-state-local terror task forces and a major effort to ‘detain and deport potential […]
3/10/2000
National Security Advisor Sandy “Berger pulled the national security cabinet together on March 10 [2000] to endorse new efforts: More support for CIA operations abroad; more attention to foreign terrorist groups at home; and tighter border security.” – Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, Page 506 […]
2/16/2000
“…in February [16] 2000, seventy congressmen signed a petition addressed to [President Bill] Clinton calling for the end to UN sanctions [against Iraq].” – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 70 […]
2/15/2000
CIA Director George Tenet provided a written statement for the 9/11 Commission on March 24, 2004. He wrote: “I placed terrorism prominently in every annual public testimony since 1997 to the appropriate Congressional Committees on the Worldwide Threat, as shown in a series of excerpts from my Statements for the Record. …February 2000: ‘Usama Bin […]