Paul Wolfowitz

Events (174)

• October 18, 2001: Paul Wolfowitz Issues Memo Urging Secrecy Among Defense Department Staff 2001-10-18
• November 26, 2001: Defense Official Asks for ‘Team B’-Like Assessment of Terrorist Intelligence 2001-11-26
• November 29-30, 2001: Neoconservative Group Encourages Bush Administration to Invade Iraq as First Step to Dominating Middle East 2001-11-29
• After December 9, 2001: Pentagon Allegedly Fails to Provide Potentially Life-Saving Information to US Intelligence Agencies, according to Unreliable Sources 2001-12-09
• March 17, 2002: British Ambassador to the US Tells Bush Administration that Britain Backs Regime Change in Iraq; But US and Britain Need a Strategy to Build Support 2002-03-17
• May 2, 2002: Pentagon Authorizes National Defense Service Medal for War on Terrorism 2002-05-02
• September 10, 2002: Article: Neoconservatives Hope Iraq War Will Transform Entire Middle East 2002-09-10
• October 6, 2002: Christian Fundamentalists Believed to Influence Bush Foreign Policy 2002-10-06
• November 3, 2002: CIA Assassinates Al-Qaeda Suspects with Remote Drone One Day Before US Elections 2002-11-03
• November 5, 2002: Wolfowitz Confirms US Carried Out Missile Strike in Yemen 2002-11-05
• December 2, 2002: Bush Officials Launch Discreditation Campaign Against UN Inspections 2002-12-02
• December 13, 2002: Report for Pentagon Suggests All Iraq Costs Can Be Paid for by Iraq Oil 2002-12-13
• December 19, 2002: British Intelligence Source: US ‘Talking Up’ Incomplete Intelligence on Iraq WMD 2002-12-19
• January 23, 2003: Wolfowitz: Iraq Failed to Note ‘Efforts to Procure Uranium From Abroad’ 2003-01-23
• January 25, 2003: Libby Presents Early Draft of Powell UN Speech to Several Top Officials 2003-01-25
• February 23, 2003: Wolfowitz Says US Wants to Liberate Iraq, Not Occupy It 2003-02-23
• February 25, 2003: Top Army General Says ‘Several Hundred Thousand Soldiers’ Will Be Needed to Secure Iraq 2003-02-25
• February 27, 2003: Pentagon Chiefs Dispute Prediction that Several Hundred Thousand Soldiers Will Be Needed to Secure Iraq 2003-02-27
• March 11, 2003: Wolfowitz: Iraqis ‘View Us as Their Hoped-For Liberator’ 2003-03-11
• March 25, 2003: Wolfowitz: World Will ‘See an Explosion of Joy and Relief’ in Iraq after US Overthrow of Iraqi Government 2003-03-25
• March 27, 2003: Wolfowitz Says Iraqi Oil Will ‘Finance Its Own Reconstruction’ 2003-03-27
• April 1, 2003: Wolfowitz Says US Wants Iraq to Be Democracy 2003-04-01
• April 6, 2003: Wolfowitz Says US Will Arrive in Iraq as ‘Army of Liberation’ 2003-04-06
• April 10, 2003: Neoconservative Says It Is Time for Pro-War Supporters to Celebrate 2003-04-10
• April 10, 2003: Wolfowitz Says Pentagon Wants Fast Transfer of Power to Iraqis 2003-04-10
• April 11, 2003: Deputy Defense Secretary Dubbed ‘Wolfowitz of Arabia’ by Press 2003-04-11
• April 21, 2003: Coalition Provisional Authority Arrives in Baghdad 2003-04-21
• May 4, 2003: Bush Administration Relying on Regime Change to Control North Korean Nuclear Program 2003-05-04
• May 23, 2003: Paul Bremer Dissolves Iraqi Army 2003-05-23
• May 30, 2003: Wolfowitz: WMD Used to Justify War because ‘Everyone Could Agree on’ It as a Rationale 2003-05-30
• June 1-9, 2003: Administration Defenders Say Wolfowitz Was Misquoted in Stating WMD Were ‘Bureaucratic Rationale’ for War 2003-06-01
• June 12, 2003: Report Alleges Niger Uranium Bound for Iraq Being Held in Benin 2003-06-12
• June 13, 2003: Army Chief Retires after Public Rebuke by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz 2003-06-13
• July 22, 2003: Wolfowitz Says WMD No Longer a Reason to Stay in Iraq, Warns ‘Foreigners’ Not to ‘Meddle in Iraq’s Business’ 2003-07-22
• July 25, 2003: Slate Reporter Slams Miller’s Erroneous WMD Reporting 2003-07-25
• 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
• August 1, 2003: Wolfowitz Says Iraq Might Not Have Been Involved in 9/11 2003-08-01
• October 27, 2003: Cher Accuses Bush Administration of Hiding Wounded Troops 2003-10-27
• November 5, 2003: Democratic 9/11 Commissioner Hamilton Makes Last-Ditch Bid to Avert Pentagon Subpoena 2003-11-05
• December 5, 2003: US Limits Reconstruction Contracts to Coalition Partners 2003-12-05
• December 19, 2003 and After: Libya Agrees to Give Up WMD Programs; Deal Made in Spite of Bush Conservatives 2003-12-19
• February 19, 2004: US Expects Pakistan to Improve Fight against Al-Qaeda after A. Q. Khan Apology, but This Does Not Happen 2004-02-19
• May 5, 2004: Abusive Interrogation Techniques Approved by Senior Defense Department Officials, Say FBI E-Mails 2004-05-05
• May 21, 2004: Zinni: Rumsfeld, Pentagon Neoconservatives Guilty of ‘Dereliction of Duty’ 2004-05-21
• October 20, 2004-November 3, 2004: BBC Documentary Argues that Many Aspects of ‘War on Terrorism’ Are Exaggerated Myths 2004-10-20
• October 25, 2004: Cheney Says No Reason for Iran to Need Nuclear Energy; Contradicts Earlier Arguments 2004-10-25
• January 20, 2005: Media Gives Favorable Coverage to Inaugural Ceremonies 2005-01-20
• February 27, 2006: Reporter and Leak Recipient Analyzes Effect of Libby Defense Fund Web Site 2006-02-27
• April 16, 2006: Cheney’s Staff Powerful, Secretive, and Highly Influential, Reporter Finds 2006-04-16
• January 24, 2007: Watergate Reporter: Plame Wilson Outing ‘a Truly Nixonian Event’ 2007-01-24