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Events (216)
- August 21, 2006: Former 9/11 Co-Chairman Addresses Various ‘Conspiracy Theories’ About 9/11 Attacks 2006-08-21
- September 12, 2007: Conservative Terrorism and Security Expert Fabricates Interviews 2007-09-12
- June 5, 2008: Democrats, Republicans Spar Over Intelligence Committee Findings on Administration’s Use of Intelligence for Invasion 2008-06-05
- Before August 24, 2009: ’Screaming Match’ Allegedly Precedes Release of 2004 CIA Report 2009-08-24
- August 11, 2011: Former Counterterrorism ‘Tsar’ Says CIA Deliberately Withheld Information from Him before 9/11 2011-08-11
- January 2001: Counterterrorism Chief Clarke Meets Senior FBI Agents and Warns Them about Al-Qaeda
- Early January 2001: Al-Qaeda Threat Highlighted for Powell
- January 1995-April 1996: FBI and Treasury Cancel Raid on Suspected Charity
- Early February 2001: Richard Clarke Urges Vice President Cheney to Take Action Against Al-Qaeda
- February 2001: Bush Administration Abandons Global Crackdown on Terrorist Funding
- (Between February and August 2001): President Bush Cancels a Plan to Upgrade the White House’s Emergency Operations Center
- February 1996-June 1999: CIA’s Bin Laden Unit Has Conflicts with CIA Superiors and Other Intelligence Agencies
- (March 2001): Assessment for President Bush Identifies Pakistan as ‘Highest Risk’ in Nuclear Proliferation
- (March 2001): US Holds Intelligence Summit on Terrorist Threat
- March-May 1996: US, Sudan Squabble over Bin Laden’s Fate
- May 2001: Bush, Who Has Yet to Take Any Action Against Al-Qaeda, Is Tired of ‘Swatting at Flies’
- May 1998-May 1999: Ten Opportunities to Strike Bin Laden in One Year
- Late June 2001: FAA Disregards Recommended Antiterrorist Measures
- June 2001: National Security Adviser Rice Is Given a List of Actions to Take if There Is a Terrorist Attack
- June 2001: Clarke Asks for Different Job as White House Fails to Share His Urgency about Terrorism
- Early June 2001: Counterterrorism Plan Circulated, but Contingency Plans Are Not Created
- June 2004: Top Democrat Helps Get Passages Critical of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice Deleted from Final Text of 9/11 Commission Report
- July 2000: CIA Learns Al-Qaeda Related Group Plans to Attack US Naval Ship
- July 1999: Ex-ISI Head Is Providing Taliban Information on US Missile Launches
- Early August 2001: Counterterrorism ‘Tsar’ Clarke Investigates Security Protecting Wall Street Telecommunications
- August 2003: 9/11 Commission Staffer Reviews NSC Documents; Favors Clarke’s Account of Bush Administration’s Treatment of Terrorist Warnings over Rice’s
- August 2004: Criticism of the Homeland Security Terror Alert System
- August 17-Late August 1998: President Clinton Criticized for Using Missile Strike on Al-Qaeda as Distraction from Personal Sex Scandal
- Autumn 1994-Spring 1995: ISI Begins Massive Support of Taliban
- October 2004: Presidential Candidates Debate Tora Bora Battle; Evidence Supports Kerry’s Position
- October 1997-May 1999: Economic Security Exercises Are Held in New York; Participants Contemplate a Terrorist Attack on Wall Street
- November-December 2006: US Officials Determine Pakistan’s Deal with Taliban-linked Militants Is a Failure
- November 1996-Late December 1999: US Government Funding Charity Front It Knows Has Ties to Bin Laden and Hamas
- Early December 1999: US Takes Action to Stop Al-Qaeda Millennium Bombing Plot
- 1996: Saudi Government Refuses to Help CIA Capture High-Ranking Hezbollah Figure
- Early Spring 1999-2000: US Officials Realize Importance of Arms Dealer Victor Bout, Create Team to Catch Him
- 1999: Future Ruler of United Arab Emirates Allegedly Goes Bird Hunting with Bin Laden
- Summer 2001: Computer Intruders Probe US Infrastructure’s Digital Switches; Al-Qaeda Connection Feared
- Early 1980: Osama Bin Laden, with Saudi Backing, Supports Afghan Rebels
- 1981-1992: Cheney and Rumsfeld Practice Secret Continuity of Government Plan, Later Activated on 9/11
- (1984-2004): Richard Clarke Participates in Secret Continuity of Government Exercises
- 1986-October 1999: New Jersey Firm Investors List Is ‘Who’s Who of Designated Terrorists’
- 1992-2000: Secret Continuity of Government Exercises Prepare for Terrorist Threat
- 1994: US Intelligence Aware of Bin Laden’s Terrorist Ties in Bosnia by This Time
- (1995-2001): Training Exercises Conducted Are Based around Aircraft Hijackings
- Early 1998: Richard Clarke Updates Continuity of Government Plan to Prepare for Terrorist Threat
- 1998: Training Exercise Held at the White House, Based Around Militants Using a Plane as a Weapon
- (Late 1999): Richard Clarke Holds Anti-Terrorist Training at the World Trade Center; 9/11-Style Attacks Not Envisaged
- Early February 1999: $8 Billion Weapons Deal Allegedly Influences US Decision Not to Strike at Bin Laden
- Early March 2004: Executive Director Zelikow Demands 9/11 Commission Subpoena Forthcoming Book by Former Counterterrorism ‘Tsar’