Michael Scheuer

Events (62)

• Late 2005: CIA Closes Unit Hunting Bin Laden
• Late 1996: Effort to Get Nukes Makes Al-Qaeda Threat Clear
• Late 1996: CIA Definitively Confirms Bin Laden Is Not Just Financier, but US Is Slow to Act
• Mid-November 2001-Mid-December 2001: US-Allied Afghan Warlords Help Bin Laden Escape Tora Bora
• Mid- to Late-1990s: CIA Suffers ‘Brain Drain’
• Spring 2002: CIA Realizes Bush Administration Is Planning to Invade Iraq
• Spring 2002: CIA Taking for Granted US Will Invade Iraq; Tenet Is Warned Invasion Will ‘Break the Back’ of Counterterrorism Efforts
• Summer 2001: Two CIA Bin Laden Experts Consider Resigning in Protest
• February 2001: Al-Qaeda Is Expecting US to Invade Afghanistan, Wants War in Iraq and Somalia as Well
• Spring 2002: Focus Shifts from Afghanistan and Al-Qaeda to Iraq
• June 2003-Late 2003: CIA, German Intelligence Learn the Truth of Curveball’s Background
• 2004: Former CIA Official Condemns Iraq War as an ‘Avaricious, Premeditated, Unprovoked war’