In the January-February 2004 issue of Mother Jones, State Department intelligence analyst Greg Theilmann said: ” ‘The Al Qaeda connection and nuclear weapons issue were the only two ways that you could link Iraq to an imminent security threat to the U.S. And the [Bush] administration was grossly distorting the intelligence on both.’ “ [The […]
1/15/2004
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Oct. 5, 2005, that the Bush administration had admitted to her that it had mistakenly abducted a German citizen, Khaled Masri, from Macedonia in January 2004. Masri reportedly was flown to a secret prison in Afghanistan, where he allegedly was abused while being interrogated. He was released in May […]
1/15/2004
Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s ‘Letter to Bin Laden and Zawahiri’ was intercepted by Iraqi Kurds in January 2004. It said: “After study and reflection, we can classify our enemy into four groups: The Americans[:] As you know, they are the most cowardly of men. They are an easy prey. …We ask […]
1/15/2004
“In all, the nineteen hijackers entered the United States a total of thirty-three times, through more than ten different airports, without ever being stopped or detained. ‘The innovation Al Qaeda introduced is *clean operatives,* ‘ said Doris Meissner, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) commissioner up until 2000, ‘who can go through immigration controls undetected.’ That […]
1/15/2004
“A report published in January 2004 by the U.S. Army War College strongly criticized the Bush administration for its ‘war on terrorism’ as being ‘unfocused,’ pointing out that the war in Iraq was ‘unnecessary’ and a ‘detour’ that had diverted attention and resources away from the real threat posed by Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.” […]
1/13/2004
“On January 13, 2004, Sergeant (SGT) Joseph M. Darby, a twenty-three-year-old U.S. Army MP [Military Police] who worked in the office at Abu Ghraib, left a note with a CD containing photographs of prisoner abuses on the desk of a Criminal Investigation Division (CID) agent. Darby received the material from Corporal (CPL) Charles Graner and […]
1/12/2004
In an interview with Time magazine on January 12, 2004, former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill said, regarding the presence of WMD in Iraq: ” ‘In the 23 months I was there [in the Bush Administration], I never saw anything that I would characterize as evidence of weapons of mass destruction… There were allegations and assertions […]
1/9/2004
“In January [9] 2004, when Vice President [Dick] Cheney was asked by a reporter from the Rocky Mountain News about the ties between al Qaeda and Iraq, he answered by saying that the [November 24, 2003] Weekly Standard article [which exposed a classified memo full of ‘uncoordinated’ material from Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas […]
1/9/2004
According to a January 9, 2004 article in The New York Times: “Only in January 2004 did Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, long the only member of the Bush cabinet to enjoy the trust of foreign governments, finally acknowledge that he had ‘not seen smoking gun, concrete evidence’ backing up administration assertions and insinuations […]
1/8/2004
At a news conference on January 8, 2004, Secretary of State Colin Powell was asked, if given another chance, would he have ‘rephrased’ his speech to the U.N. Security Council on February 5, 2003. ” ‘No,’ Powell replied firmly. ‘I knew exactly the circumstances under which I was presenting that speech…the whole world would be […]