“Human rights groups expressed dismay at the Justice Department’s legal reasoning [for the torture of captured terrorists] yesterday [June 7, 2004]. ‘It is by leaps and bounds the worst thing I’ve seen since this whole Abu Ghraib scandal broke [in Iraq],’ said Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch. ‘It appears that what they were contemplating […]
6/6/2004
Director of Reconstruction in Iraq L. Paul Bremer issued Order No. 94 on June 6, 2004, which replaced Order No. 40 from September 2003. It opened “the Iraqi banking sector to foreign ownership…[by] allowing foreign banks to purchase 100 percent of Iraqi banks and to open subsidiaries and branches without restriction.” – Antonia Juhasz, The […]
6/5/2004
“In early June [2004], the American FBI agent [George Piro] got Saddam to open up about his planning for the 2003 war. Piro kept asking him about his military planning for what Saddam himself said was the inevitable invasion. ‘I told my commanders that their duty to Iraq was to defend against the invaders with […]
6/4/2004
“The June 4 [2004] Washington Post front-page headline read, ‘Tenet Resigns as CIA Director; Intelligence Chief Praised by Bush, but Critics Cite Lapses on Iraq War.’ ” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 317 […]
6/3/2004
“In June [3] 2004, [George] Tenet had stepped down as [CIA] Director, just as the 9/11 Commission was on the verge of issuing its withering history of the Agency’s missteps.” – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 312 […]
6/3/2004
“On June 3 [2004], CIA Director George Tenet submitted a letter of resignation to [President] Bush. …Bush appeared before reporters on the South Lawn of the White House and announced Tenet’s departure. He said that Tenet had done a ‘superb job.’ ” – Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris, Pages 361-362 […]
6/2/2004
“In June [2] 2004, the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority issued Order 91, which outlawed militias and outlined a process by which militia members could be integrated into Iraqi security forces.” – Solomon Moore, “Killings Linked to Shiite Squads in Iraqi Police Force,” The Los Angeles Times, Nov. 29, 2005 […]
6/2/2004
“In a statement issued on 2 June, 2004, [Grand Ayatollah Ali al-] Sistani said that he ‘repeatedly affirmed the necessity for the Iraqi government to possess a sovereignty that derives from free and honest elections in which the Iraqi people participate in a general way.’ He went on to complain that, ‘the option of holding […]
6/2/2004
In Iraq, “The Interim Government was inaugurated on 2 June, 2004, in front of a huge throng of assembled officials and dignitaries and the world press. The insurgency was raging and Baghdad was even more insecure, but Iraqis broadly welcomed the Interim Government.” – Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 286 […]
6/2/2004
On June 2, 2004, “U.S. intelligence officials told the New York Times that [Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed] Chalabi had given American state secrets to Iran, including news that ‘the United States had broken the secret communications code of Iran’s intelligence service,’ thereby destroying Washington’s most valuable source of information about Iran. Chalabi consistently denied […]