As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary:” “Mr Blair leaves office; Mr Brown becomes [UK] Prime Minister.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, June 27, 2007 […]
6/27/2007
From coverage of classified State Department documents exposed by WikiLeaks: “In June [27] 2007, the US embassy in Burundi reported an approach by a local elder alerting the Americans to a cache of uranium in a concrete bunker over the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He was concerned that it would fall […]
6/27/2007
U.K. Prime Minister Tony “Blair faced mounting opposition to the war [in Iraq] in his own Labour Party and the country and left office in June [27] 2007. He was succeeded by his chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, who was distinctly less warm to [President] Bush.” – Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in […]
6/25/2007
” ‘From the moment a soldier enlists, we inculcate loyalty, duty, honor, integrity, and selfless service,’ Taguba said. ‘And yet when we get to the senior-officer level we forget those values. I know that my peers in the Army will be mad at me for speaking out, but the fact is that we violated the […]
6/25/2007
Retired Major General Antonio Taguba was quoted in The New Yorker on June 25, 2007, saying: ” ‘…the fact is that we violated the laws of land warfare in Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq]. We violated the tenets of the Geneva Convention. We violated our own principles and we violated the core of our military […]
6/15/2007
Then-Vice President Dick Cheney wrote, at a National Security Council meeting in June 2007: “I again made the case for U.S. military action against the [secret nuclear] reactor [at al-Kibar, Syria]. Not only would it make the region and the world safer, but it would also demonstrate our seriousness with respect to non-proliferation. It would […]
6/15/2007
“Former Vice President Dick Cheney says in a new memoir that he urged President George W. Bush to bomb a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor site in June 2007. But, he wrote, Mr. Bush opted for a diplomatic approach after other advisers–still stinging over ‘the bad intelligence we had received about Iraq’s stockpiles of weapons of […]
6/15/2007
Former Vice President “Dick Cheney said he urged then-president George W. Bush in June 2007 to bomb a suspected nuclear reactor site in Syria, the former vice president wrote in his memoirs, the New York Times reported Thursday [August 25, 2011]. ‘I again made the case for U.S. military action against the reactor,’ Cheney wrote […]
6/15/2007
In Iraq, “The last of the surge brigades and their support troops finished arriving in June [2007], elevating the U.S. troop level in Iraq to 156,000–plus another 180,000 contractors performing functions that once were done by soldiers. (Most of these were cleaners, cooks, and so on, but about 20,000 were private security guards.)” [The 15th […]
6/11/2007
“On June 11, 2007, in Al-Marri v. Wright, the Fourth Circuit ruled that the President could not declare civilians present in the U.S. to be ‘enemy combatants,’ nor could they be held by the military indefinitely. The Court held that ‘[t]o sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, […]