Article XXXIII “Repeatedly Ignored and Failed To Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the U.S., Prior to 9/11” of H.Res.1258 “RESOLUTION Impeaching George W. Bush, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors”: “[GWB] Repeatedly Ignored and Failed To Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks […]
6/5/2008
“In June [5] 2008, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded…that there was no ‘cooperative relationship’ between Saddam and al-Qaeda. The committee also found that ‘most of the contacts cited between Iraq and al-Qa’ida before the war by the intelligence community and policy makers have been determined not to have occurred.’ The only meeting that […]
6/5/2008
“On June 5, 2008, the Senate Intelligence Committee published its ‘Phase II Prewar Intelligence Report’ detailing its findings on the [Bush] administration’s handling of prewar intelligence [for Iraq]. The report confirms what many already suspected–that the Bush White House exaggerated evidence against Saddam Hussein and Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction. ‘In making the […]
6/3/2008
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) mentioned the war in Iraq in his victory speech after receiving the Democratic nomination for president on June 3, 2008. ” ‘We must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in,’ Obama said. ‘But start leaving, we must. It’s time for Iraqis to take responsibility for […]
6/2/2008
“The United States is operating ‘floating prisons’ to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal the numbers and whereabouts of detainees. … Clive Stafford Smith, Reprieve’s legal director, said: ‘They choose ships to try to keep their misconduct as far […]
6/2/2008
From a list of attacks ‘believed to have been conducted by, or inspired by, al-Qaeda:’ “June 2, 2008: Pakistan: The Danish embassy is struck by a car bomb, killing six people and injuring many others.” – Najwa bin Laden, Omar bin Laden, and Jean Sasson, Growing Up Bin Laden, Page 321 […]
6/2/2008
“In June [2] 2008, quoting the U.S. government, [lawyer Clive] Stafford Smith said that at least 26,000 people were being held without trial in secret prisons and that as many as 80,000 had been through the secret prison system since 2001. The CIA sent its prisoners to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Qatar, and Morocco, as […]
5/30/2008
CIA Director Michael “Hayden warned…that progress in Iraq is being undermined by increasing interference by Iran, which he accused of supplying weapons, training and financial assistance to anti-U.S. insurgents. While declining to endorse any particular strategy for dealing with Iran, he described the threat in stark terms. ‘It is the policy of the Iranian government, […]
5/30/2008
“In a strikingly revealing interview in May [30] 2008, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said that Al Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world, including its presumed haven along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.” – Fawaz A. Gerges, The Far Enemy, Page 311 […]
5/28/2008
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s upcoming memoir titled, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, concluded: ” ‘What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.’ ” – Michael D. Shear, “Ex-Press Aide Writes that Bush Misled […]