Milbank, Dana. "After 14-Month Inquiry, Many Questions Remain." Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2005, A7. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Milbank, Dana. "After 14-Month Inquiry, Many Questions Remain." Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2005, A7. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
The report of the WMD commission "is plenty tough, but it directs its fire at the intelligence professionals -- the same ones already beaten up by the Sept. 11 commission and congressional reports -- and gives the political figures a pass.... Asked whether there was political pressure on the CIA, [Commission co-chairman Charles S.] Robb was categorical in denial."
[GenPostCW/00s/WMD/05]
Milbank, Dana. "Goss Backed '95 Bill to Slash Intelligence: Plan Would Have Cut Personnel 20%." Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2004, A3. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-FL), President Bush's nominee to be DCI and HPSCI chairman for the past 8 years, "was one of six original co-sponsors of legislation in 1995 that called for cuts of at least 4 percent per year between 1996 and 2000 in the total number of people employed throughout the intelligence community."
[CIA/DCIs/Goss/Nomination]
Milbank, Dana. "Kean Says 9/11 Attacks Could Have Been Prevented." Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2003, A25. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
In remarks broadcast on 17 December 2003, Thomas H. Kean, former Republican governor of New Jersey and chairman of the commission investigating the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, said that he believes "the strikes could have been prevented."
[GenPostCW/00s/03/Commission]
Milbank, Dana, and Mike Allen. "Bush Weighs Overhaul of Intelligence Services; Aides Say He Will Await 9/11 Panel's Suggestions." Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2004. A3. [http://www. washingtonpost.com]
President Bush said on 12 April 2004 "that he is contemplating a major overhaul of the nation's intelligence services.... Bush ... said that 'now may be a time to revamp and reform our intelligence services.' Aides said he is likely to wait for recommendations, scheduled for this summer, from the independent commission investigating the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."
[GenPostCW/00s/04/Gen & Commission; Reform/04]
Milbank, Dana, and Mike Allen. "Release of Documents Is Delayed; Classified Papers To Be Reviewed." Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2003, A15. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 25 March 2003, the White House "issued an order delaying the release of millions of government documents and giving the government new powers to reclassify information. The order ... allows the government to delay until the end of 2006 the release of documents that otherwise would have been out by April 17 [2003] under a program of automatic declassification after 25 years. The government now has more discretion to keep information classified indefinitely if it falls within a broad definition of national security."
Clark comment: Text of the amended Executive Order 12958, "Classified National Security Information," is available at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/bush/eoamend.html. The transcript of a "White House Conference Call Background Briefing" on the Executive Order is available at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2003/03/wh032503.html.
[PostCW/00s/03/Gen]
Milbank, Dana, and Walter Pincus. "Bush Aides Disclose Warnings From CIA." Washington Post, 23 Jul. 2003, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
White House officials said on 22 July 2003 that "[t]he The CIA sent two memos to the White House," dated 5 and 6 October 2002, "voicing strong doubts about a claim ... that Iraq was trying to buy nuclear material in Africa." Deputy national security adviser Stephen J. "Hadley, who also received a phone call from [DCI] George J. Tenet before the president's Oct. 7 speech asking that the Africa allegation be removed, took the blame for allowing the charge to be revived in the State of the Union address."
[GenPostCW/00s/03/IraqUranium]
Milbank, Dana, and Walter Pincus. "Declassified Memo Said Al Qaeda Was in U.S.; Aug. 6 Report to President Warned of Hijacking." Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2004, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
An article, entitled "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US," from the 6 August 2001 President's Daily Brief (PDB) indicates that "President Bush was warned a month before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that the FBI had information that terrorists might be preparing for a hijacking in the United States and might be targeting a building in Lower Manhattan." The article was declassified on 9 April 2004 "by the White House in response to a request from the independent commission probing the Sept. 11 attacks."
Text of the PDB excerpt is available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3617289.stm.
[GenPostCW/00s/04/Commission]
Milbank, Dana, and Dana Priest. "Bush to Back Probe of Iraq Data, Officials Say." Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2004, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Republican and congressional sources said on 31 January 2004 that "President Bush has agreed to support an independent inquiry into the prewar intelligence that he used to assert that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction."
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