Timothy E
Events (11)
- (After 10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Assembles Legal Team for Expanding Presidential Power 2001-09-11
- (After 1:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Government Lawyers Discuss the Legal Aspects of a War on Terror 2001-09-11
- After 10:20 a.m. September 11, 2001: White House and Pentagon Lawyers Consider the Legality of Shooting Down a Commercial Aircraft 2001-09-11
- (After 10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Situation Room Staffers Are Alerted to a Supposed Hijacked Plane that Turns Out Not to Exist 2001-09-11
- (Shortly After 9:15 a.m.) September 11, 2001: White House Lawyer Is Told What the Justice Department Knows about the Attacks 2001-09-11
- November 6-10, 2001: Cheney Advisers and Justice Department Lawyer Yoo Write Proposal Denying Terror Suspects Right to Courts 2001-11-06
- January 25, 2002: Powell, State Department Sidelined in Decision to Abandon Geneva Conventions in Interrogations 2002-01-25
- April 2002 and After: President Bush Deliberately Shielded from Knowledge of Harsh Interrogation Techniques
- August 2002: Bush Lawyers Develop ‘Inherent Power’ Argument for Unilaterally Taking Nation to War
- Fall 2002: Justice Department Lawyers Lose Argument over Indefinite Detentions to Cheney’s Counsel
- Late October 2001: White House Readies Military Commissions Order; Commissions Will Usurp Power from Legislative, Judicial Branches into Executive