From the list of Operational Opportunities: “January 2000: the CIA does not develop a transnational plan for tracking [Khalid al] Mihdhar and his associates so that they could be followed to Bangkok and onward, including the United States.” [The 15th of the month is used for date sorting purposes only.] – 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 […]
1/15/2000
Future National Security Advisor “Condoleezza Rice had set the tone for the [Bush] administration in her [January/February] 2000 Foreign Affairs article, in which she argued, ‘Using the American armed forces as the world’s *911* will degrade capabilities [and] bog soldiers down in peacekeeping roles.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes […]
1/15/2000
“In a Foreign Affairs article in [January/February] 2000 that presented the Republican foreign policy manifesto for the upcoming presidential election, [future National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice chided the Clinton team for having failed to implement ‘a disciplined and consistent foreign policy that separates the important from the trivial.’ By contrast, Rice promised, a Republican administration […]
1/15/2000
In an article for the January/February 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs, future National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: ” ‘Saddam Hussein’s regime is isolated, his conventional military power has been severely weakened, his people live in poverty and terror, and he has no useful place in international politics. He is therefore determined to develop WMD. […]
1/15/2000
In January 2000, Ambassador for Counterterrorism Michael Sheehan phoned Taliban foreign minister Wakil Muttawakil and “read him an unambiguous statement from [President Bill] Clinton: ‘We will hold the Taliban leadership responsible for any attacks against US interests by al-Qaeda or any of its affiliated groups.’ Muttawakil, who was privately one of bin Laden’s most bitter […]
1/15/2000
Future National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote an article for the January/February 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs, which summed up future President Bush’s foreign policy. The article “was unusually critical of the Clinton administration for deploying American forces in conflicts like Haiti, and questioned the moral impulse to spread American democracy when what really mattered, […]
1/15/2000
“As [future National Security Advisor] Condoleezza Rice had written in a 2000 article in [the January-February 2000] Foreign Affairs, with respect to Iraq and other rogue states, ‘the first line of defense should be a clear and classical statement of deterrence–if they do acquire WMD, their weapons will be unusable because any attempt to use […]
1/15/2000
“In January 2000 he [deputy chief of Alec Station Tom Wilshire] had spiked the message drafted by Doug Miller, one of the FBI agents assigned to the station, alerting his headquarters to [future 9/11 hijacker Khalid al-] Mihdhar’s U.S. visa and New York travel plans. Wilshire also never alerted the State Department, which would have […]
1/15/2000
“In January 2000, it [the U.N.] established the United Nations Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)… Under the terms of UNMOVIC, Iraq no longer had to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction in order to gain a reprieve from U.N. sanctions; it merely needed to demonstrate ‘cooperation.’ UNMOVIC was also designed to be ‘more aligned […]
1/15/2000
Defense Intelligence Agency specialist Kie Fallis wrote a highly classified report in May 2000, which said: ” ‘I obtained information in January of 2000 that indicated terrorists were planning two or three major attacks against the United States,’ he said. ‘The only gaps were where and when.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for […]