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Events (317)

• March 31, 2003: US Forces Overrun Supposed Militant ‘Poison Factory’ in Iraq, but Its Poison Capabilities Appear Overblown 2003-03-31
• Shortly After April 9, 2003: US Troops Find Many Forged Documents in Iraq that Attempt to Link Hussein and Al-Qaeda 2003-04-09
• May 23, 2003: Paul Bremer Dissolves Iraqi Army 2003-05-23
• June 1, 2003: CIA Receives White House Authorization for Harsh Interrogation Tactics 2003-06-01
• 2:00 p.m. June 11, 2003: Libby Grills CIA Official about Wilson, Wife 2003-06-11
• (June 12, 2003): Cheney Tells Libby that Plame Wilson Is a CIA Agent in Counterproliferation Division 2003-06-12
• June 13, 2003: Columnist Contradicts Rice’s, Cheney’s Disavowal of Knowledge of Iraq-Niger Forgeries 2003-06-13
• June 17, 2003: CIA Memo States that There Is Insufficient Evidence to Back Iraq-Niger Uranium Allegation 2003-06-17
• July 6-10, 2003: White House Officials Work to Declassify Information to Debunk Wilson 2003-07-06
• July 8, 2003: White House Admits Error over Iraq-Niger Uranium Claim 2003-07-08
• July 9, 2003: Tenet Unhappy with Possible White House Leaks Blaming CIA for Intelligence Failures 2003-07-09
• July 11, 2003: President Bush Blames CIA Director Tenet for Niger Forgery Mention in State of the Union Speech 2003-07-11
• July 11, 2003: Cheney Rejects Draft Statement by Tenet as ‘Unacceptable’ 2003-07-11
• 11:00 a.m. July 11, 2003: Rove Attempts to Turn Iraq-Niger Story against CIA, White House Critic; Outs CIA’s Plame Wilson to Time Reporter 2003-07-11
• July 11, 2003: Wilson Believes CIA Admission Will End His Press Notoriety 2003-07-11
• 3:09 p.m. July 11, 2003: CIA Officially Retracts Uranium-from-Africa Claim 2003-07-11
• July 12, 2003: Cheney, Two Aides Discuss Rebutting, Discrediting Wilson 2003-07-12
• July 13, 2003: Condoleeza Rice Again Blames CIA for Uranium-from-Africa Claim 2003-07-13
• July 14, 2003: Columnist Outs CIA Agent, Apparently to Discredit Administration Critic 2003-07-14
• July 16, 2003: Intelligence Professionals: Bush Must Ask Cheney to Resign 2003-07-16
• July 17, 2003: Time Reports Administration Attempts to Smear Former Ambassador 2003-07-17
• July 17, 2003: Wall Street Journal Prints Editorial Based on Leaked Classified Information 2003-07-17
• July 21, 2003: Hadley Offers to Resign Over ‘16 Words’ Controversy; White House Staffers Decide to Approach Issue with ‘Forthrightness,’ ‘Honesty’ 2003-07-21
• July 24, 2003: 9/11 Congressional Inquiry Says Almost Every Government Agency Failed 2003-07-24
• July 24, 2003: 9/11 Congressional Inquiry Suggests Hijackers Received Considerable Assistance Inside US 2003-07-24
• July 29, 2003: David Kay Tells Top US Officials That Iraq Survey Group Has Yet to Find Evidence of WMD; Bush Unfazed 2003-07-29
• July 30, 2003: Rice Admits to Responsibility in Not Vetting Iraq-Uranium Claims 2003-07-30
• August 3, 2003: Wilson Discusses Iraq-Niger Claims on CNN 2003-08-03
• September 25, 2003: Representatives Criticize CIA over Poor Intelligence about Iraq 2003-09-25
• September 26, 2003: FBI Begins Criminal Investigation into Plame Wilson Identity Leak 2003-09-26
• October 14, 2003: Senator Asks CIA to Conduct Leak Damage Assessment 2003-10-14
• October 22-24, 2003: Former CIA Colleagues Call Plame Wilson’s Outing a ‘Serious Betrayal’ of National Security 2003-10-22
• November 5, 2003-January 2004: 9/11 Commission’s Attempt to Get Access to Detainees Fails 2003-11-05
• January 22, 2004: CIA Director Tenet’s Memory Losses Alarm 9/11 Commission 2004-01-22
• Before January 22, 2004: CIA Director Tenet Spends Much Time Reading Material in Preparation for Interviews with 9/11 Commission, Focuses on Surveillance of Malaysia Meeting 2004-01-22
• January 23, 2004: David Kay Resigns as Head of Iraq Survey Group 2004-01-23
• January 28, 2004: CIA Director Tenet Privately Tells 9/11 Commission about Urgent Pre-9/11 Warning, but His Testimony Is Kept Secret 2004-01-28
• February 5, 2004: CIA Director Tenet Says Trailers ‘Could be Made to Work’ as Biological Weapons Labs 2004-02-05
• February 24, 2004: Tenet Says Atta Meeting in Prague Cannot Be Proven or Disproven 2004-02-24
• April 14, 2004: CIA Director Tenet Falsely Claims He Did Not Meet President Bush in August 2001 2004-04-14
• Shortly After April 28, 2004-February 2005: CIA Temporarily Suspends Use of Some Aggressive Interrogation Techniques, Including Waterboarding 2004-04-28
• June 3, 2004: CIA Director George Tenet Resigns 2004-06-03
• July 1, 2004: Tenet Says CIA Is ‘Increasingly Skeptical’ about Alleged Atta-Iraqi Agent Meeting 2004-07-01
• July 2, 2004: CIA Director Tenet Fails Test Set by 9/11 Commission; They Doubt his Truthfulness 2004-07-02
• July 8, 2004: Magazine Correctly Predicts ‘July Surprise’ Al-Qaeda Arrest 2004-07-08
• July 9, 2004: Senate Intelligence Committee Report Finds Widespread Failures in Intelligence Gathering, Analysis in Pre-War Assessments 2004-07-09
• August 5, 2004: Republican Senator Alleged to Have Leaked Info to Fox Reporter 2004-08-05
• September 16, 2004: Media Receives Leaked National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq; Findings Grim 2004-09-16
• December 14, 2004: President Bush Gives George Tenet and Others the Medal of Freedom 2004-12-14
• January 7, 2005: Still-Classified Report Is Said to Blame CIA Leaders For 9/11 Failures, But There Are Pressures to Water It Down 2005-01-07