Philip Zelikow

Events (93)

• October 15, 1998: Future 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Says ‘Public Assumptions’ Shape Views of History 1998-10-15
• December 24, 1998: President Clinton Signs Order Authorizing the Assassination of Bin Laden 1998-12-24
• January 3, 2001: Clarke Demoted by Rice and Future 9/11 Commission Executive Director 2001-01-03
• June 14, 2002: Future 9/11 Commission Executive Director Offers Support for Invasion of Iraq 2002-06-14
• September 10, 2002: Future 9/11 Commission Executive Director Says ‘Real Threat’ of Iraqi WMDs Is to Israel 2002-09-10
• September 20, 2002: Bush Administration Releases ‘National Security Strategy’ Document Advocating Preemptive War 2002-09-20
• January 26, 2003: Some 9/11 Commission Members Unhappy with Staffing Arrangements, Executive Director Zelikow’s Appointment and Degree of Control 2003-01-26
• January 27, 2003: Richard Clarke Amazed at Zelikow’s Hiring by 9/11 Commission, Thinks ‘The Fix Is In’ 2003-01-27
• January 27, 2003: 9/11 Commission Starts Off with Little Funding 2003-01-27
• Shortly Before January 27, 2003: 9/11 Commission Hires Philip Zelikow as Executive Director Despite His Links to National Security Adviser Rice 2003-01-27
• March 2, 2003: 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Tries to Prevent Staff Talking Directly to Commissioners 2003-03-02
• 2:00 p.m. March 31, 2003: First Expert Witness for 9/11 Commission Promotes Iraq War 2003-03-31
• Before April 24, 2003: 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Cuts off Commissioners’ Access to Congressional Inquiry Files 2003-04-24
• June 23-24, 2003: Karl Rove Calls 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Twice 2003-06-23
• July 9, 2003: ’Jersey Girls’ Lambast Zelikow over Author’s Testimony Linking 9/11 to Iraqi Government 2003-07-09
• July 9, 2003: Neoconservative Author’s Testimony Dismays 9/11 Commission Members and Staff 2003-07-09
• September 4-15, 2003: Karl Rove Again Calls 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow 2003-09-04
• September 15, 2003 or Shortly After: Some 9/11 Commission Staffers ‘Furious’ at Executive Director Zelikow’s Contacts with Karl Rove 2003-09-15
• September 16, 2003 or Shortly After: 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Tells Secretary Not to Log His Calls, Following Controversy over Contacts with Rove 2003-09-16
• September 16, 2003 or Shortly After: 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Reportedly Understates Amount of Contacts with Rove in Interview with Reporter 2003-09-16
• October 3, 2003: Some Victims’ Relatives Demand Executive Director Zelikow Leave 9/11 Commission or Limit Scope of Involvement 2003-10-03
• October 8, 2003: 9/11 Commission Interviews Own Executive Director Zelikow over His Role in Events before Attacks, Conflicts of Interest 2003-10-08
• October 9, 2003 or Shortly After: 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Recused from Some Aspects of Investigation due to White House Links 2003-10-09
• October 21, 2003: 9/11 Commission Staff Meet Member of Able Danger Unit 2003-10-21
• November 5, 2003: Democratic 9/11 Commissioner Hamilton Makes Last-Ditch Bid to Avert Pentagon Subpoena 2003-11-05
• November 7, 2003: 9/11 Commission, White House Strike Deal on Access to Presidential Daily Briefs: Only One Commissioner and One Staffer Will See All of Them 2003-11-07
• Shortly After December 9, 2003: New 9/11 Commissioner Threatens to Quit over Executive Director Zelikow’s Ties to Rice, but Is Persuaded to Remain 2003-12-09
• December 16, 2003: 9/11 Commission Staffer Is Appalled by Zelikow’s Interview of Clinton Attorney General, Thinks He Displayed Partisanship 2003-12-16
• Before December 18, 2003: 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Says Former Counterterrorism ‘Tsar’ Clarke Cannot Be Trusted to Tell Truth, Must Be Placed under Oath 2003-12-18
• January 22, 2004: CIA Director Tenet’s Memory Losses Alarm 9/11 Commission 2004-01-22
• 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 7, 2004: 9/11 Commission Has Private Meeting with National Security Adviser Rice; She Is Not Put under Oath, No Transcript Is Made 2004-02-07
• March 21, 2004: Victims’ Relatives Demand that 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Resign 2004-03-21
• March 24, 2004: White House Discloses Former Counterterrorism ‘Tsar’ Clarke Was Anonymous Official Who Gave Background Briefing 2004-03-24
• April 29, 2004: President Bush and Vice President Cheney Privately Meet with 9/11 Commission; They Decline to Provide Testimony under Oath 2004-04-29
• July 2, 2004: CIA Director Tenet Fails Test Set by 9/11 Commission; They Doubt his Truthfulness 2004-07-02
• June-July 17, 2004: Text of 9/11 Commission Report Is Finalized, 12 People Have Vetoes 2004-07-17
• February 28, 2005: Former 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Gets Job as Condoleezza Rice’s Special Adviser 2005-02-28
• June 23, 2005: Bradbury Becomes Head of Office of Legal Counsel, Turning Office into White House Rubber Stamp 2005-06-23
• September 15-27, 2006: Zelikow Resigns from State Department after Neocons Attack His Advocacy for Israeli-Palestinian Peace 2006-09-15
• September 30-October 3, 2006: 9/11 Commissioners Claim to Be Furious They Were Not Told of July 2001 Warning, When In Fact They Were 2006-10-03
• January 30, 2008: MSNBC Finds over One Quarter of 9/11 Commission Report Endnotes Cite Dubious Detainee Interrogations 2008-01-30
• February 4, 2008: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Calls for New 9/11 Inquiry 2008-02-04
• March 29, 2008: Media Confused over Attorney General Mukasey’s New Claim of Afghan Intercept before 9/11 2008-03-29
• February 17, 2009: Former Bush State Department Official Recommends US Military Strike against North Korea 2009-02-17
• April 21, 2009: Pundit Asks Why Bush Torture Opponent Did Not Resign 2009-04-21
• April 21, 2009: Former State Department Adviser Reveals Secret Memo Challenging Bush Administration’s Legal Justifications for Torture 2009-04-21
• January 2001: Future 9/11 Commission Executive Director Zelikow Not Offered Full-time Job with Bush Administration, Returns to University
• January 2004: Staffers Appalled at Zelikow’s Rewrite of 9/11 Commission Statement to Imply Connections between Iraq and Al-Qaeda
• Early January 2004: Able Danger Intelligence Officer Tries Contacting 9/11 Commission