Office Of Special Plans
Events (27)
- November 26, 2001: Defense Official Asks for ‘Team B’-Like Assessment of Terrorist Intelligence 2001-11-26
- July 25, 2002: Pentagon Memo Disputes View that Hussein Will Not Work with Al-Qaeda 2002-07-25
- September 16, 2002: Defense Department Briefing to White House Officials Incorrectly Alleges Deep Ties between Iraq and Al-Qaeda 2002-09-16
- September 20, 2002: Cheney Alleges ‘Well-Established Pattern of Cooperation between Iraq and Terrorists’ 2002-09-20
- October 24, 2002: Rumsfeld Announces Existence of Counter-Terrorism Evaluation Group 2002-10-24
- October 24, 2002: New York Times Exposes Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans 2002-10-24
- 3:09 p.m. July 11, 2003: CIA Officially Retracts Uranium-from-Africa Claim 2003-07-11
- April 16, 2006: Cheney’s Staff Powerful, Secretive, and Highly Influential, Reporter Finds 2006-04-16
- February 9, 2007: Pentagon Investigation Finds Office of Special Plans Inappropriately Produced ‘Alternative’ Intelligence Reports on Iraq 2007-02-09
- Late March 2003 and After: ’Off-the-Books’ Team Sent to Iraq to Find WMD for ‘Political’ Purpose
- June 2001: Abrams, Other Think Tank Neoconservatives Move to Join White House
- June 2002: INC Letter Reveals ‘Direct Flow of Information’ to Cheney
- September 2002: CIA Director Allows Ad Hoc Intelligence Agency to Undermine US Intelligence Apparatus
- 1999: Neoconservative Philosopher: Intelligence Provides a Means to Policy Ends, by Necessity Steeped in Deception
- Fall 2002 and After: Vice President Cheney’s Power Peaks as He Uses Bureaucratic Strategies to Manage Foreign Policy Himself
- Fall 2002: Cheney, Staffers Give INC Intelligence More Credence than CIA’s, Attempt to Inject INC Intel into CIA Analyses
- Mid-September, 2001: Cheney and Rumsfeld Create ‘Cabal’ to Influence Foreign Policy
- Fall 2002: White House Creates New Interagency Task Force to Coordinate Iraq War Planning
- 2002-2003: US Government Works on Plans for Post-War Iraq
- July 2003: Office of Special Plans Renamed to its Old Name
- 2001-2003: US Intelligence Bases Assessements on Information Provided by INC
- September 2002: ’Office of Special Plans’ Created; ‘Stovepipes’ Questionable Intelligence Reports to Office of Vice President
- May 2002-February 2003: Feith Holds Unrecorded Meeting with Israelis
- Mid-January 2003: Pentagon White Paper Proposes Creation of a ‘Rapid Reaction Media Team’ to Control Iraqi Media
- Summer 2002: Rumsfeld: ‘I’m Going to Create My Own Intelligence Agency’
- June 2003: US Officials Meet Secretly for Third Time with Iranian Arms Merchant
- (2006): NSC Refuses Request from Pentagon Investigators to Interview Stephen Hadley