Colin Powell

Events (259)

• January 26, 2003: False Report of Al-Zarqawi Losing Leg Strengthens Support for War on Iraq 2003-01-26
• January 26, 2003: Colin Powell Asserts Iraq Trying to Obtain Uranium and Equipment to Produce Nuclear Weapon 2003-01-26
• January 28, 2003: Powell Said to Misrepresent Report from Weapons Inspectors 2003-01-28
• January 29, 2003: Powell Accepts Task of Making Administration’s Case for War; Finds White House Dossier Unreliable 2003-01-29
• January 31, 2003: State Department’s Intelligence Bureau Flags 38 Claims in Powell’s UN Speech as ‘Weak,’ ‘Unsubstantiated’ 2003-01-31
• January 31, 2003: US Conducts Covert Surveillance Against United Nations Delegates 2003-01-31
• February 1, 2003-February 4, 2003: Powell Refuses to Include Certain Material in His Speech Linking Iraq to Islamic Militants 2003-02-01
• February 2, 2003: State Department’s Intelligence Bureau Finds More ‘Unverifiable’ Items in Powell’s Speech 2003-02-02
• February 3, 2003: Britain Releases ‘Dodgy Dossier’ Plagiarized from Grad Student’s Magazine Article, Other Sources 2003-02-03
• February 3-4, 2003: US Intelligence Analysts Do Not Believe There Are Links Between Iraqi Government, Al-Zarqawi, and Ansar al-Islam 2003-02-03
• February 3, 2003: Powell Says UN Presentation Will Not Include ‘Smoking Gun’ 2003-02-03
• February 3, 2003: Colin Powell Warned Not To Cite Aluminum Tubes as Evidence of Iraq Nuclear Weapons Program 2003-02-03
• January 30-February 4, 2003: Powell’s Team Compiles Information for Upcoming Presentation on Its Own 2003-02-04
• February 4, 2003: Powell’s Team Conducts Dress Rehearsal for Upcoming UN Presentation 2003-02-04
• January 30-February 4, 2003: Powell’s Top Aide Refuses to Include Material From White House Reports in Powell’s Upcoming UN Speech 2003-02-04
• February 4, 2003: Top CIA Officials Assure Powell and Top Aide that Evidence for Mobile Weapons Labs is Strong 2003-02-04
• February 5, 2003: German Intelligence Officer Shocked that Powell Used Curveball Info 2003-02-05
• February 5, 2003 and After: Media Reaction to Powell’s Speech Overwhelmingly Positive, Less So among Skeptical Nations 2003-02-05
• February 5, 2003: Plame Wilson ‘Deeply Upset’ at Powell’s UN Presentation 2003-02-05
• February 5, 2003: Powell Aide Nervous about ‘Ineffective’ UN Presentation 2003-02-05
• After February 5, 2003: Powell’s Chief of Staff: UN Presentation a ‘Hoax on the American People, the International Community, and the UN Security Council’ 2003-02-05
• February 5, 2003: OLC Chief Confirmed as Federal Judge 2003-02-05
• After February 5, 2003: Wilson: Powell’s UN Presentation Unconvincing, Final Proof of Complicity with Administration Neoconservatives 2003-02-05
• February 5, 2003: Powell Gives Fraudulent Presentation About Iraqi WMDs to UN 2003-02-05
• 2:30 a.m. February 5, 2003: Tenet Calls Powell’s Hotel Room with Concerns that Too Much Has Been Cut from Speech 2003-02-05
• (2:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m.) February 5, 2003: Scooter Libby Pushes for Inclusion of Claim about Prague Connection into Powell’s UN Speech 2003-02-05
• Before February 5, 2003: Powell Tells Biden: ‘Someday I’ll Tell You Why’ 2003-02-05
• February 6, 2003: US Politicians Question Why Bush Administration Highlights Training Camp as Justifying War Against Iraq without Actually Attacking the Camp 2003-02-06
• February 6, 2003: UN Inspectors Find Evidence Disproving Curveball’s Allegations of Mobile Bioweapons Labs 2003-02-06
• February 6, 2003: President Bush Summarizes Allegations against Iraq; Accuses Saddam Hussein of Making ‘Iraq into a Prison, a Poison Factory, and a Torture Chamber’ 2003-02-06
• February 7-13, 2003: Orange Alert Causes Duct Tape and Plastic Sheeting Buying Panic 2003-02-07
• February 7, 2003: Iraqi Officials Demonstrate Sites Cited by Powell Are Monitored 2003-02-07
• February 7, 2003: Powell’s Use of Plagiarized Dossier Criticized by Jane’s Editor 2003-02-07
• February 8, 2003: British Press Blasts ‘Dodgy Dossier’ 2003-02-08
• February 9, 2003: Powell Derides UN Inspectors, Troops in Iraq 2003-02-09
• February 14, 2003: UN Gives Update on Progress of Weapons Inspections 2003-02-14
• February 24, 2003: US, Allies Push for Second UN Resolution Against Iraq; Other Countries Submit Alternative 2003-02-24
• February 27, 2003: Iraq Destroys its Al Samoud Missiles; US Describes Iraq’s Actions as ‘Deception’ 2003-02-27
• February 28, 2003: Powell Suggests Invading Iraq Could Inadvertently Bring Peace and Stability to Middle East; Hints at International Support 2003-02-28
• March 5, 2003: State Department Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq Updated 2003-03-05
• March 7, 2003: UNMOVIC and IAEA Reports on Iraq Weapons Inspections Undermine Bush Administration’s Claims 2003-03-07
• March 8, 2003: State Department Official: ‘We Fell for’ the Iraq-Niger Forgeries 2003-03-08
• March 14, 2003: Ranking Senate Intelligence Committee Member Asks for FBI Investigation of Forged Iraq-Niger Documents 2003-03-14
• March 18, 2003: Bush Sends Formal Determination of Iraqi WMDs to Congress, but Determination Is Later Criticized as Inadequate 2003-03-18
• March 26, 2003: Powell Says US Wants to Work with Iraqi Commander ‘As Soon As Possible’ 2003-03-26
• March 30, 2003: Rumsfeld States Desire for Iraqi Government that is Friendly toward US 2003-03-30
• March 31, 2003: US Forces Overrun Supposed Militant ‘Poison Factory’ in Iraq, but Its Poison Capabilities Appear Overblown 2003-03-31
• April 2, 2003: Powell Says US Wants End to Iraq War ‘As Soon As Possible’ 2003-04-02
• May 1, 2003: Former Intelligence Officers Warn Iraq Intelligence Is Being Manipulated 2003-05-01
• May 4, 2003: US Immediately Rejects Comprehensive Peace Proposal by Iran’s Top Leadership 2003-05-04