New and updated entries: the decision to invade IraqThu Nov 3, 2005 01:5464.140.159.176
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> The timeline on the forged documents has been updated to include recently reported information. All recently added/updated Iraq entries can be viewed here. The following links also include a few new entries: Stephen Hadley, Scooter Libby, White House Iraq Group, Powell's UN Speech, and Larry Wilkerson.
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New and updated entries for Inquiry into the decision to invade Iraq in November+2005
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Between 1999 and 2000
Intelligence reports suggesting that “rogue states” are trying to obtain uranium sparks concern within the French government about the security of France's uranium supplies in Niger, as well as the security of the two French consortiums that control Niger's uranium industry. [Financial Times, 8/2/04] France has reportedly learned that uranium is being extracted from abandoned mines and being sold on the international black market. [La Repubblica, 10/24/2005]
People and organizations involved: France
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October 2005
Speaking at the New America Foundation, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, argues that power in Washington has become so concentrated, and the inter-agency processes within the Federal government so degraded that the government is no longer capable of responding competently to threatening events—whether such events are natural disasters or international conflicts. He describes how successive administrations over the last five decades have damaged the national security decision-making process and warns that new legislation is desperately needed to force transparency on the process and restore checks and balances within the federal bureaucracy. The process has hit a nadir with the Bush administration, he says, whose secrecy and disregard for inter-agency processes has resulted in disastrous policies, such as those toward Iraq, North Korea, and Iran, and the policies that resulted in the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. “Fundamental decisions about foreign policy should not be made in secret,” he says. This approach to government also contributed to the failures in responding to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. “Decisions that send men and women to die, decisions that have the potential to send men and women to die, decisions that confront situations like natural disasters and cause needless death or cause people to suffer misery that they shouldn't have to suffer, domestic and international decisions, should not be made in a secret way.” His speech ends with a very direct and open attack on the Bush administration. “What I saw was a cabal between the Vice President of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made. And then when the bureaucracy was presented with those decisions and carried them out, it was presented in such a disjointed incredible way that the bureaucracy often didn't know what it was doing as it moved to carry them out. ” [Financial Times, 10/20/2005 Sources: Transcript: Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson Speech to New America Foundation]
People and organizations involved: Larry Wilkerson, Richard ("Dick") Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld
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