In My Time (86 page)
Authors: Dick Cheney
366
his biological weapons program:
Statement by Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet on the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction, August 11, 2003,
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/press-release-archive-2003/pr08112003.htm
.
367
“the Persian Gulf region”:
quoted in Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq,
July 7, 2004,
p. 144
,
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/108301.pdf
.
367
nuclear or nonnuclear use:
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
Report on Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated by Intelligence Information,
June 5, 2008,
pp. 6
–7,
http://intelligence.senate.gov/080605/phase2a.pdf
.
367
President George H. W. Bush:
Central Intelligence Agency, “Iraq: Baghdad Attempts to Assassinate Former President Bush,” July 12, 1993,
http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000756378/DOC_0000756378.pdf
.
367
participated in terrorist attacks:
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
Report on Prewar Intelligence,
July 7, 2004,
pp. 315
–16.
368
“absent U.S. military action”:
Letter from George Tenet to Bob Graham, October 7, 2002,
Congressional Record,
October 9, 2002, p. S10154.
368
Development officer, in Jordan:
George Tenet, Hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, February 11, 2003,
p. 78
,
http://intelligence.senate.gov/108161.pdf
; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
Report on Prewar Intelligence,
pp. 337
and 353; Tenet,
Center of the Storm,
pp. 350
–54.
368
Tenet would later write:
Tenet,
Center of the Storm,
p. 370
; See also Robb-Silberman Report,
p. 14
.
384
than had been suspected:
Robb-Silberman Report,
pp. 267
–70.
385
one million dying:
Tara O’Toole, Mair Michael, and Thomas V. Inglesby, “Shining Light on ‘Dark Winter,’”
Clinical Infectious Diseases,
vol. 34, issue 7, April 1, 2002, pp. 972–83,
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/7/972.full#sec-2
.
392
“
several months to a year”:
National Intelligence Council, National Intelligence Estimate, “Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction,” October 2002,
http://www.dni.gov/nic/special_keyjudgements.html
. The assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research had an alternative view, judging that while Saddam was “pursuing at least a limited effort to maintain and acquire nuclear weapons-related capabilities,” he did not have “an integrated and comprehensive approach,” which made it impossible to predict when he could acquire a nuclear weapon.
394
“an obvious falsehood”:
“Britain: Iraq Statement an ‘Obvious Falsehood,’” Associated Press, December 18, 2002.
394
within the past few years:
Hans Blix,
An Update on Inspection,
January 27, 2003,
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/Bx27.htm
.
404
speech was “well-founded”:
Committee of Privy Counsellors,
Review of Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction,
July 14, 2004,
pp. 123
–25,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/14_07_04_butler.pdf
.
405
chief among them:
Tenet,
Center of the Storm,
p. 469
.
406
wanted to buy yellowcake:
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
Report on Prewar Intelligence,
pp. 43
–46.
406
“a flat-out lie”:
Spencer Ackerman and John B. Judis, “The First Casualty,”
New Republic,
June 30, 2003.
406
State of the Union speech:
web chat sponsored by Kerry campaign, October 29, 2003, quoted at
http://www.factcheck.org/article222.html
.
407
“unsubstantiated, and misleading”:
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
Report on Prewar Intelligence,
p. 445
.
407
four separate times:
Michael J. Sniffen, “Journalists Say CIA Agent’s ID Was Offered Freely,” Associated Press, February 13, 2007; For Bob Woodward recording of Armitage interview,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoPG1PVic10
.
407
on October 1, 2003:
David Johnston, “Leak Revelation Leaves Questions,”
New York Times,
September 2, 2006.
409
accuracy of their recall:
For the issue of memory in the Libby trial, see Stan Crock, “‘Fair Game’ Glamorizes Distortions and Perpetuates Myths,”
World Affairs,
September/October 2010,
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/articles/2010-SeptOct/full-Crock-SO-2010.html
.
412
“declare to the UN”:
Central Intelligence Agency, Statement by David Kay on the Interim Progress Report on the Activities of the Iraq Survey Group, October 2, 2003,
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/2003/david_kay_10022003.html
.
412
“before the war”:
Interview with David Kay,
Weekend Edition,
National Public Radio, January 25, 2004.
412
“after sanctions were removed”:
Duelfer,
Comprehensive Report,
vol. 1, Regime Strategic Intent, Key Findings, September 30, 2004,
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/iraq_wmd_2004/chap1.html#sect1
.
412
chemical weapons within months:
Duelfer,
Comprehensive Report,
vol. 1, Regime Strategic Intent, Realizing Saddam’s Veiled WMD Intent, September 30, 2004,
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/iraq_wmd_2004/chap1.html#sect7
. For knowledge base and dual use, see key findings for chemical, biological, nuclear in vols. 2 and 3.
414
“making conventional bombs”:
Letter from George Tenet to Bob Graham, October 7, 2002,
Congressional Record,
October 9, 2002, p. S10154.
415
“indistinguishable” from each other:
Tenet, Hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
p. 78
,
http://intelligence.senate.gov/108161.pdf
.
421
the Department of Defense:
Donald Rumsfeld,
Known and Unknown: A Memoir
(New York: Sentinel, 2011),
p. 552
.
427
“bringing us this day”:
Stephen F. Hayes, “Present at the Creation: With Dick Cheney at the Inauguration of Afghanistan’s First Elected President,”
Weekly Standard,
December 20, 2004.
466
–68
Information and quotations
about the al-Kibar nuclear reactor and Syrian-North Korean cooperation: “Background Briefing with Senior U.S. Officials on Syria’s Covert Nuclear Reactor and North Korea’s Involvement,” April 24, 2008,
http://www.dni.gov/interviews/20080424_interview.pdf
.
473
metal structure over it:
Ibid.
474
“serious and sincere”:
Mike Chinoy,
Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008),
p. 318
.
477
military option was under way:
Demetri Sevastopulo, Daniel Dombey, and Andrew Ward, “US Strike on Iran ‘Not Being Prepared,’”
Financial Times,
November 12, 2007.
478
dramatic opening statement:
Director of National Intelligence, National Intelligence Estimate, “Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities,” November 2007,
http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20071203_release.pdf
.
479
to do over again:
See Mark Mazzetti, “Intelligence Chief Says Al Qaeda Improves Ability to Strike in U.S.,”
New York Times,
February 6, 2008, and Michael McConnell, Annual Threat Assessment Hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, February 27, 2008.
483
traces of highly enriched uranium:
Glenn Kessler, “Uranium Traces Found on N. Korean Tubes,”
Washington Post,
December 21, 2007.
484
traces of highly enriched uranium:
Glenn Kessler, “New Data Found on North Korea’s Nuclear Capacity,”
Washington Post,
June 21, 2008.
489
“his North Korean counterparts”:
Glenn Kessler, “N. Korea Doesn’t Agree to Written Nuclear Pact; Earlier Assurances Contradicted, U.S. Says,”
Washington Post,
December 12, 2008.
496
–97
Descriptions and quotations
regarding Specialist Monica Brown’s Silver Star:
http://ourmilitaryheroes.defense.gov/profiles/brownm.html
.
501
left them with no plan:
Richard B. Cheney, Speech to the Center for Security Policy, October 21, 2009,
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18209.xml?genre_id=1004
.
503
whatever losses they produced:
“Dissenting Statement of Commissioner Keith Hennessey, Commissioner Douglas Holtz-Eakin, and Vice Chairman Bill Thomas,”
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report,
January 2011,
pp. 411
–39,
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fcic/fcic.pdf
.
510
approximately $20 billion:
Robert J. Samuelson, “Why TARP Has Been a Success Story,”
Newsweek,
March 28, 2011.
514
Putin seemed to long for them:
Richard B. Cheney, Remarks at the 2006 Vilnius Conference, May 4, 2006,
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060504–1.html
.
514
make them members of NATO:
Richard B. Cheney, Remarks at the Ambrosetti Forum, September 6, 2008,
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/09/20080906–1.html
.
523
in writing this book:
Central Intelligence Agency, “Khalid Shaykh Muhammad: Preeminent Source on Al-Qa’ida,” July 13, 2004,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/Khalid_Shayhk_Muhammad.pdf
; Central Intelligence Agency, “Detainee Reporting Pivotal for the War Against Al-Qa’ida,” June 3, 2005,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/Detainee_Reporting.pdf
.
A-12s,
236
–37
Abbas, Abu,
367
Abbot, Steve,
319
Abdullah, Crown Prince,
397
and deployment of U.S. troops to Persian Gulf,
190
,
377
Israeli-Palestinian crisis and,
375
,
377
–78
Abdullah II, King of Jordan,
374
–75
Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk,
362
Abizaid, John,
435
–36
Abkhazia,
513
Abscam scandal,
133
–34
Abu Ghraib prison,
420
–22
Achille Lauro,
367
Across the Wide Missouri
(De Voto),
22
Adams, Tim,
273
Addington, David,
9
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162
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175
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244
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255
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290
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306
,
338
,
495
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497
,
530
–31
on leadership succession and survival planning,
320
–22
Terrorist Surveillance Program and,
348
–51
Afghanistan,
363
,
418
–21,
443
,
452
–53,
470
,
496
–502,
511
–12
free elections in,
426
–27
liberation of,
346
–47
9/11 and,
332
,
334
,
337
,
343
,
347
,
367
–68,
497
Pakistan and,
346
,
480
,
498
–500,
502
reconstruction in,
370
,
372
,
427
,
499
Soviet Union and,
142
,
201
,
346
–47,
427
,
496
U.S. withdrawal from,
501
–2
violence in,
497
–98
see also
Enduring Freedom, Operation
Agreed Framework,
493
Agriculture Department, U.S.,
20
,
94
,
167
Ahern, Kara,
530
Air Force, U.S.,
31
–32,
89
,
162
,
177
,
185
,
195
–97,
199
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229
Cheney’s Defense Department tenure and,
163
–64