(HOT STUFF) Bill Moyers' keynote address
Fri Dec 9, 2005 17:39
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GEORGE TENET's "We're At War" MEMO ALSO DECLASSIFIED
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20051209/at_war.pdf
National Security Archive - nsarchiv@gwu.edu
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
December 9, 2005
An mp3 Podcast of Bill Moyers' keynote address will be available immediately following the Dec 9 event.
Bill Moyers Headlines Archive 20th Anniversary Celebration
C-SPAN to Broadcast Live Event,
1:00-5:00 p.m.
New Documents on War on
Terrorism - Archive Releases Pre-9/11 Warning to Saudis That Osama Bin Laden Might Target Civilian Airliners
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/anniversary/index.htm
About the Speakers
BILL MOYERS has used National Security Archive resources in his documentary journalism work for many years, and has participated in several Archive research and litigation projects. Moyers has covered a broad spectrum of journalism during his 25 years in broadcasting, winning more than 30 Emmys as well as the prestigious DuPont-Columbia Gold Baton. He was elected to the Television Hall of Fame in 1995 and a year later received the Charles Frankel Prize (now the National Humanities Medal) from the National Endowment for the Humanities "for outstanding contributions to American cultural life." In 1986, Moyers formed Public Affairs Television, Inc., with his wife and partner, Judith, after serving as executive editor of the Bill Moyers' Journal on public television, senior news analyst for the CBS Evening News, and chief correspondent for the acclaimed documentary series CBS Reports. Moyers has also written five best-selling books based on his TV work. Before entering broadcasting, Moyers served as deputy director of the Peace Corps in the Kennedy Administration and was special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1967), including two years as White House press secretary. He left the White House in January 1967 to become the publisher of Newsday. For 12 years, Moyers was a trustee of The Rockefeller Foundation and now serves as President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.
SHERRY JONES is an award-winning television documentary producer and a fellow at the National Security Archive. She heads her own production company, Washington Media Associates, and has produced 23 documentaries for the PBS series FRONTLINE, including two with Bill Moyers. She has also produced two ABC News "Peter Jennings Reporting" specials, and seven films based in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Her honors include six Emmy Awards, three DuPont-Columbia Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and three Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Overseas Press Club.
MORTON H. HALPERIN was an original sponsor of the Archive when he was Washington director of the American Civil Liberties Union and director of the Center for National Security Studies. He is a senior vice president and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and director of the Security and Peace Initiative, a joint initiative of the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation. He is also the executive director of the Open Society Policy Center and director of U.S. advocacy for the Open Society Institute. Halperin has served in senior positions at the State Department and Pentagon, and on the NSC staff during the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations, and is the author of Bureaucratic Politics.
WALTER B. SLOCOMBE is a former chair of the Board of Directors of the National Security Archive. A partner in the law firm of Caplin & Drysdale, he served in Iraq in 2003 as defense adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority. He served in the Clinton administration as undersecretary of defense for policy from 1993 to 2000. From 1986 to 1993, he consulted for RAND and served on several advisory panels at the Strategic Air Command Technical Advisory Committee.
GENEVA OVERHOLSER is a friend and adviser of the Archive, the Hurley Professor of Journalism at the University of Missouri, and former ombudsman of the Washington Post. Under her editorship, the Des Moines Register won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service for "It Couldn't Happen To Me: One Woman's Story," a series based on a powerful essay written by Overholser that argued the press should reconsider the way it covers rape cases. Previously, she had been an editorial writer for the New York Times and for the Register, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and a reporter for the Colorado Springs Sun, among other assignments.
SCOTT ARMSTRONG conceived of the idea for the National Security Archive while working at the Washington Post in 1985 and became the founding director of the organization. He is now an investigative journalist and executive director of the Information Trust, a nonprofit organization devoted to facilitating freedom of expression in the U.S. and abroad. He is the co-author with Bob Woodward of The Brethren, and assisted Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward as a researcher/writer on The Final Days. He is a member of the National FOIA Hall of Fame and recipient of the ALA's James Madison Award.
SEYMOUR M. HERSH is a long-time friend of the Archive, where he gives an annual seminar on investigative journalism for Archive staff and interns. One of America's premier investigative reporters, now with the New Yorker, he has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, four George Polk Awards, and the National Magazine Award for his reporting on Iraq. He is also the author of eight books, including The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and most recently Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.
TINA ROSENBERG was a fellow at the National Security Archive while researching and writing The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, which won the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. She has been an editorial writer at the New York Times since 1996, concentrating on foreign policy and human rights. She was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Before joining the Times, Rosenberg was a freelance writer of books and magazine articles, lived for six years in Latin America, and was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/anniversary/index.htm
National Security Archive, Suite 701, Gelman Library, The George Washington University, 2130 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037 - Phone: 202/994-7000 - Fax: 202/994-7005 - nsarchiv@gwu.edu
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
National Security Archive News
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/index.html
NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE RELEASES PRE-9/11 WARNING TO SAUDIS
THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN MIGHT TARGET CIVILIAN AIRLINERS
GEORGE TENET's "We're At War" MEMO ALSO DECLASSIFIED
RELEASES PUNCTUATE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARCHIVE'S WORK
For more information contact
Peter Kornbluh - 202/994-7000
December 9, 2005
Washington, D.C., December 9, 2005 - More than three years before the 9/11 attack on the United States, U.S. officials warned Saudi Arabia that Osama bin Laden "might take the course of least resistance and turn to a civilian [aircraft] target," according to a declassified cable released by the National Security Archive today. The warning was made by the U.S. regional security officer and a civil aviation official in Riyadh based on a public threat bin Laden made against "military passenger aircraft" and his statement that "we do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians."
The State Department cable was not mentioned in the report of the 9/11 Commission, which investigated how U.S. intelligence failed to detect planning for the terrorist attacks, using civilian airliners, on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Archive analyst Barbara Elias.
The National Security Archive released the cable, and a CIA memorandum, "We're at War," written by then director George Tenet, as it prepared to commemorate its 20th anniversary on Friday. Obtaining the declassification of these documents on the war on terrorism epitomized two decades of work to bring transparency and accountability to relevant issues in U.S. foreign policy, said Archive Executive Director Thomas Blanton. "American citizens not only have a right to know, they have a need to know."
In his urgent "We're at War" memo written five days after the 9/11 attacks to his top deputies, CIA Director George Tenet demanded an urgent and "unrelenting focus" on "bringing all of our operational, analytical, and technical capabilities to bear-not only to protect the US both here and abroad from additional terrorist attacks-but also, and more importantly, to neutralize and destroy al-Qa'ida and its partners."
The confidential memo called for "absolute and total dedication as a leadership team" and stated that he and his deputies would "translate the urgency of the difficult tasks ahead to the men and women we lead by our behavior and actions." In waging the war on terrorism, Tenet wrote, "we must lead…. Never has our professionalism and discipline been at a greater premium."
The memo was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by National Security Archive senior fellow, Jeffrey Richelson. It was first identified in Bob Woodward's bestselling book, Bush At War.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20051209/index.htm
GEORGE TENET's "We're At War" MEMO ALSO DECLASSIFIED
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20051209/at_war.pdf
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20051209/at_war.pdf
National Security Archive - nsarchiv@gwu.edu
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
December 9, 2005
An mp3 Podcast of Bill Moyers' keynote address will be available immediately following the Dec 9 event.
Bill Moyers Headlines Archive 20th Anniversary Celebration
C-SPAN to Broadcast Live Event,
1:00-5:00 p.m.
New Documents on War on
Terrorism - Archive Releases Pre-9/11 Warning to Saudis That Osama Bin Laden Might Target Civilian Airliners
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/anniversary/index.htm
About the Speakers
BILL MOYERS has used National Security Archive resources in his documentary journalism work for many years, and has participated in several Archive research and litigation projects. Moyers has covered a broad spectrum of journalism during his 25 years in broadcasting, winning more than 30 Emmys as well as the prestigious DuPont-Columbia Gold Baton. He was elected to the Television Hall of Fame in 1995 and a year later received the Charles Frankel Prize (now the National Humanities Medal) from the National Endowment for the Humanities "for outstanding contributions to American cultural life." In 1986, Moyers formed Public Affairs Television, Inc., with his wife and partner, Judith, after serving as executive editor of the Bill Moyers' Journal on public television, senior news analyst for the CBS Evening News, and chief correspondent for the acclaimed documentary series CBS Reports. Moyers has also written five best-selling books based on his TV work. Before entering broadcasting, Moyers served as deputy director of the Peace Corps in the Kennedy Administration and was special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1967), including two years as White House press secretary. He left the White House in January 1967 to become the publisher of Newsday. For 12 years, Moyers was a trustee of The Rockefeller Foundation and now serves as President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy.
SHERRY JONES is an award-winning television documentary producer and a fellow at the National Security Archive. She heads her own production company, Washington Media Associates, and has produced 23 documentaries for the PBS series FRONTLINE, including two with Bill Moyers. She has also produced two ABC News "Peter Jennings Reporting" specials, and seven films based in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Her honors include six Emmy Awards, three DuPont-Columbia Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and three Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Overseas Press Club.
MORTON H. HALPERIN was an original sponsor of the Archive when he was Washington director of the American Civil Liberties Union and director of the Center for National Security Studies. He is a senior vice president and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and director of the Security and Peace Initiative, a joint initiative of the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation. He is also the executive director of the Open Society Policy Center and director of U.S. advocacy for the Open Society Institute. Halperin has served in senior positions at the State Department and Pentagon, and on the NSC staff during the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations, and is the author of Bureaucratic Politics.
WALTER B. SLOCOMBE is a former chair of the Board of Directors of the National Security Archive. A partner in the law firm of Caplin & Drysdale, he served in Iraq in 2003 as defense adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority. He served in the Clinton administration as undersecretary of defense for policy from 1993 to 2000. From 1986 to 1993, he consulted for RAND and served on several advisory panels at the Strategic Air Command Technical Advisory Committee.
GENEVA OVERHOLSER is a friend and adviser of the Archive, the Hurley Professor of Journalism at the University of Missouri, and former ombudsman of the Washington Post. Under her editorship, the Des Moines Register won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service for "It Couldn't Happen To Me: One Woman's Story," a series based on a powerful essay written by Overholser that argued the press should reconsider the way it covers rape cases. Previously, she had been an editorial writer for the New York Times and for the Register, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and a reporter for the Colorado Springs Sun, among other assignments.
SCOTT ARMSTRONG conceived of the idea for the National Security Archive while working at the Washington Post in 1985 and became the founding director of the organization. He is now an investigative journalist and executive director of the Information Trust, a nonprofit organization devoted to facilitating freedom of expression in the U.S. and abroad. He is the co-author with Bob Woodward of The Brethren, and assisted Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward as a researcher/writer on The Final Days. He is a member of the National FOIA Hall of Fame and recipient of the ALA's James Madison Award.
SEYMOUR M. HERSH is a long-time friend of the Archive, where he gives an annual seminar on investigative journalism for Archive staff and interns. One of America's premier investigative reporters, now with the New Yorker, he has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, four George Polk Awards, and the National Magazine Award for his reporting on Iraq. He is also the author of eight books, including The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and most recently Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.
TINA ROSENBERG was a fellow at the National Security Archive while researching and writing The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism, which won the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. She has been an editorial writer at the New York Times since 1996, concentrating on foreign policy and human rights. She was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. Before joining the Times, Rosenberg was a freelance writer of books and magazine articles, lived for six years in Latin America, and was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/anniversary/index.htm
National Security Archive, Suite 701, Gelman Library, The George Washington University, 2130 H Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20037 - Phone: 202/994-7000 - Fax: 202/994-7005 - nsarchiv@gwu.edu
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
National Security Archive News
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/index.html
NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE RELEASES PRE-9/11 WARNING TO SAUDIS
THAT OSAMA BIN LADEN MIGHT TARGET CIVILIAN AIRLINERS
GEORGE TENET's "We're At War" MEMO ALSO DECLASSIFIED
RELEASES PUNCTUATE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARCHIVE'S WORK
For more information contact
Peter Kornbluh - 202/994-7000
December 9, 2005
Washington, D.C., December 9, 2005 - More than three years before the 9/11 attack on the United States, U.S. officials warned Saudi Arabia that Osama bin Laden "might take the course of least resistance and turn to a civilian [aircraft] target," according to a declassified cable released by the National Security Archive today. The warning was made by the U.S. regional security officer and a civil aviation official in Riyadh based on a public threat bin Laden made against "military passenger aircraft" and his statement that "we do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians."
The State Department cable was not mentioned in the report of the 9/11 Commission, which investigated how U.S. intelligence failed to detect planning for the terrorist attacks, using civilian airliners, on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Archive analyst Barbara Elias.
The National Security Archive released the cable, and a CIA memorandum, "We're at War," written by then director George Tenet, as it prepared to commemorate its 20th anniversary on Friday. Obtaining the declassification of these documents on the war on terrorism epitomized two decades of work to bring transparency and accountability to relevant issues in U.S. foreign policy, said Archive Executive Director Thomas Blanton. "American citizens not only have a right to know, they have a need to know."
In his urgent "We're at War" memo written five days after the 9/11 attacks to his top deputies, CIA Director George Tenet demanded an urgent and "unrelenting focus" on "bringing all of our operational, analytical, and technical capabilities to bear-not only to protect the US both here and abroad from additional terrorist attacks-but also, and more importantly, to neutralize and destroy al-Qa'ida and its partners."
The confidential memo called for "absolute and total dedication as a leadership team" and stated that he and his deputies would "translate the urgency of the difficult tasks ahead to the men and women we lead by our behavior and actions." In waging the war on terrorism, Tenet wrote, "we must lead…. Never has our professionalism and discipline been at a greater premium."
The memo was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by National Security Archive senior fellow, Jeffrey Richelson. It was first identified in Bob Woodward's bestselling book, Bush At War.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20051209/index.htm
GEORGE TENET's "We're At War" MEMO ALSO DECLASSIFIED
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20051209/at_war.pdf
- PRE-9/11 WARNING TO SAUDIS — Fri Dec 9 18:01
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