“In an appearance on Larry King Live on May 31, 2005…[Vice President Dick] Cheney was asked how long Americans would be fighting in Iraq. ‘The level of activity that we see today, from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline,’ he said. ‘I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the […]
5/30/2005
“A footnote in the May 30, 2005 memo by Steven Bradbury, then acting head of the DOJ’s [Department of Justice’s] Office of Legal Counsel, states that, ‘According to the [CIA] IG [Inspector General’s] Report, the CIA, at least initially, could not always distinguish detainees who had information but were successfully resisting interrogation from those who […]
5/30/2005
“A [May 30] 2005 top-secret memo by the White House Office of Legal Counsel released by the Obama administration pointed out that [9/11 mastermind] KSM [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] had only given up his plans for the ‘Second Wave’ of attacks on the United States after he had been subjected to ‘enhanced techniques,’ that is, waterboarding […]
5/30/2005
” ‘The level of activity that we see today [in Iraq], from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline,’ [Vice President Dick] Cheney told Larry King in May [30] 2005. ‘I think that they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.’ ” – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of […]
5/30/2005
“Another [interrogation] technique approved by OLC [Office of Legal Counsel] was ‘walling.’ An interrogator repeatedly slammed the detainee against a false wall made of plywood or a similar material. Steven Bradbury, a protégé of Ken Starr who became acting head of OLC in 2005, acknowledged [in a memo to CIA Senior Deputy General Counsel John […]
5/30/2005
Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on Larry King Live on May 30, 2005. Regarding Iraq, he said: ” ‘I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.’ ” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 397 […]
5/29/2005
“On May 29 [2005], New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman…who had supported the [Bush] administration’s war in Iraq, denounced Guantanamo for ‘inflaming sentiments against the U.S. all over the world…’ Friedman decried Guantanamo as ‘worse than an embarrassment…[it is] becoming the anti-Statue of Liberty.’ He called for the detainees to be prosecuted if they could […]
5/27/2005
“U.S. and NATO forces still failed to develop either a coherent interdiction or an eradication strategy [for opium crops in Afghanistan]. ‘Even now, the Bush administration is disproportionately concentrating on the most visible, but least effective approach, forcible crop eradication, which merely moves the problem around and enriches traffickers by raising the price of their […]
5/26/2005
“the US military in Iraq makes no secret of the fact that [al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-] Zarqawi is its number one target. He is blamed for many of the most deadly attacks and is the only widely-recognised leader in the insurgency.” – Nick Childs, “Analysis: Zarqawi’s Insurgency,” BBC News, May 26, […]
5/24/2005
In a speech made in Greece, New York, on May 24, 2005, “President Bush said, ‘See, in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.’ ” – Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Page 108 […]