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Claim vs. fact – a factual counterpoint to the testimony of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (aka the 9/11 Commission) on April 8, 2004. Written by David J. Sirota and Christy Harvey and... Posted Sat 04/10/2004
The complete transcript of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, on April 8, 2004. Includes her prepared opening statement as well as the question-and-answer session that followed. Posted Sat 04/10/2004
The full text (as declassified) of the Presidential Daily Briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Transcribed from a photographic copy. The text below is formatted similarly to the original. All italics and name... Posted Sat 04/10/2004
Photo reproductions of the declassified version of the Presidential Daily Briefing of August 6, 2001. Also, click here to download as a PDF (273kb). For a text transcript, go here.... Posted Sat 04/10/2004
From The Village Voice: While the nation focused on Richard Clarke's allegations last week, CIA director George Tenet let slip other revelations in his testimony to the 9-11 Commission, admissions that sharpen the contours of the shadowy intelligence practice called... Posted Wed 03/31/2004
CBS has not posted an official, full transcript of Richard Clarke's explosive appearance on 60 Minutes. Here is an unofficial rush transcript. Leslie Stahl interviews Richard Clark Sixty Minutes March 21, 2004 LESLIE STAHL: ... and was held over by... Posted Tue 03/23/2004
From the London Observer: Dramatic corroboration of the massacre of Afghan prisoners by the US-backed Northern Alliance at the start of the war in 2001 was last night provided by American pathologists commissioned to investigate the claims by the UN.... Posted Tue 03/23/2004
Three British prisoners released in early March from the secret US prisons at Guantanamo have given extensive interviews to the London Observer, revealing the extent of abuse and torture, as well as providing new information on the role of British... Posted Tue 03/23/2004
The London Guardian reported in Sept. 2003 that the CIA is using a database codenamed "Harmony" to catalog the responses given by captives taken in the war on terror. This includes the results of interrogations under torture. Especially important or... Posted Mon 03/15/2004
The New York Observer's excellent, lengthy article on the state of the investigation into the 9-11 attacks finds a whole mess of stange facts and pointedly-unanswered questions. Posted Sun 02/15/2004
The full text of FBI Intelligence Bulletin No. 102, containing the alert to law enforcement to be on the look-out for "potential terrorist use of alamacs." Posted Fri 01/09/2004
Quoting a release from US Central Command (CENTCOM). The following information may be used by those papers wishing to chart US casualties for the 14 days prior to and 14 days after Saddam's capture: Nov. 29 - 2 dead, 1... Posted Fri 01/02/2004
Disclosure of what the FBI knows about the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks could enable terrorists to engineer biological weapons to escape detection, the FBI says in documents filed in response to a lawsuit by a scientist labeled a "person of... Posted Fri 01/02/2004
A memo obtained by Newsweek shows the Iraqi National Congress fed questionable intelligence reports about Iraqi WMD and purported ties to al-Qaida directly to one of Vice President Cheney's top national security aides, as well as to a senior member of the Office of Special Plans who formerly served as military adviser to Newt Gingrich. This completely bypassed all normal intelligence channels and vetting, contrary to Cheney denials on just this point. Cheney and OPS staffers later pushed that same INC info to bolster the case that Hussein's government posed a direct threat to America. Posted Fri 01/02/2004
From the ACLU: In a surprise development, hundreds of videotapes that were originally said by the Department of Justice not to exist were discovered recently by its own internal affairs bureau and document many of the detainee abuses listed in... Posted Fri 12/19/2003
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled President Bush exceeded his Constitutional authority by ordering US citizen Jose Padilla held as an enemy combatant without charge or legal representation, and that Padilla must be released from military custody within... Posted Thu 12/18/2003
From the Washington Post: The FBI, in an unprecedented move that has strained relations with a close ally in the war on terrorism, has subpoenaed records for dozens of bank accounts belonging to the Saudi Embassy, part of an investigation... Posted Tue 12/09/2003
From the NY Times: The top American military commander for the Middle East has created a covert commando force to hunt Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and key terrorists throughout the region, according to Pentagon and military officials. The new... Posted Thu 11/13/2003
The Associated Press has just gone public with an event that happened in September. US Customs intercepted and seized a package mailed between two Associated Press reporters and turned the contents over the FBI. Bureau spokesman Doug Garrison said the... Posted Sat 03/15/2003
Anonymous sources in the Admin tell AP that Bush's secret 2001 finding authorizing the CIA to assassinate terrorists also tacitly includes American citizens as potential targets. Evidently, classifying an American as fair game can be done after the fact, in... Posted Wed 12/04/2002
Senior intelligence officials confirm that a secret finding recently signed by President Bush, building on an earlier one by President Clinton, grant the CIA legal authority to conduct assassination operations against individuals designated as terrorists. As a result, the CIA is devising strategy and policy to that end, and is developing assets for assassinations within both the CIA and "uniformed military units," as well as foreign agents in Middle Eastern countries. Officials within the CIA are reportedly adamant that there be a clear paper trail indicating authorization for assassination ops come from the President in order to avoid accusations the Agency is acting on its own, as happened during Congressional investigations during the 1970s. Posted Wed 10/31/2001
