On July 20, 2007, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13440: “By the authority vested in me as President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40), the Military Commissions Act […]
7/20/2007
“On July 20, 2007, President Bush issued an Executive Order [No. 13400] interpreting Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions as it applied to the CIA’s program of detention and interrogation. In the Order, President Bush reiterated and reaffirmed his statement of February 7, 2002 that Common Article 3 did not apply to members of […]
7/20/2007
“In July [20] 2007, President Bush signed an Executive Order [No. 13400] listing new interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects, yet it cast little light on what the limits of these ‘enhanced interrogation’ techniques were. It is fair to assume that the Bush Administration knew it was in unchartered waters, and the likelihood that subsequent decisions […]
7/19/2007
Pakistani President Purvez “Musharraf abandoned the truce with the Pakistani Taliban, sacked Governor [Ali Jan] Orakzai in Peshawar, and, on July 19, 2007, formally launched a military offensive in FATA [Federally Administered Tribal Areas].” – Ahmed Rashid, Descent Into Chaos, Page 385 […]
7/17/2007
“…although the April 2006 National Intelligence Estimate assessed that ‘the global jihadist movement is decentralized, lacks a coherent strategy, and is becoming more diffuse,’ the July [17] 2007 National Intelligence Estimate took a very different view, concluding that al Qaeda ‘has protected or regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability.’ ” – Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, […]
7/17/2007
“The CIA’s 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, released on July 17, 2007…said: ‘We judge that the United States currently is in a heightened threat environment.’ ” – Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 229 […]
7/15/2007
In an article for the July/August 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs, presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) “criticized the Bush administration’s handling of the war on terrorism: ‘The Bush administration responded to the unconventional attacks of 9/11 with conventional thinking of the past, largely viewing problems as state-based and principally amenable to military solutions.’ […]
7/15/2007
“In July 2007, a U.S. National Intelligence Estimate, a summary of sixteen American intelligence agencies, said that al Qaeda had reestablished its central organization, training infrastructure, and lines of global communication primarily due to its safe havens in FATA [Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas]. Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, said that al Qaeda […]
7/15/2007
“In mid-July [2007] a National Intelligence Estimate issued by the entire U.S. intelligence community stated that al Qaeda was based in FATA [Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas] and that the United States would not hesitate to bomb or even invade any part of FATA if bin Laden was found to be hiding there.” [The 15th […]
7/15/2007
“By July 2007, the sixteen American intelligence agencies that collectively make up the U.S. intelligence community had all signed off on a National Intelligence Estimate that concluded that al-Qaeda ‘has protected or regenerated key elements of Homeland attack capability, including a safe haven in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), operational lieutenants, and its top […]