Wayne Downing
Events (20)
- October 9, 2001: Richard Clarke Resigns as Counterterrorism ‘Tsar’ 2001-10-09
- February 11, 2003: CIA Director Tenet Sees Poverty and Misery as Root Causes of Terrorism, but President Bush Believes Terrorists Hate US for Its Freedom 2003-02-11
- March 25, 2003: New York Times Explores Role of Retired Generals as Network Military Analysts 2003-03-25
- April 21, 2003: Nation Magazine Finds Military Analysts Have Ideological, Financial Interests in Promoting War 2003-04-21
- April 13-April 29, 2004: Press and Politicians Mount Campaign Against 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick 2004-04-29
- October 22, 2004: Article Claims President Bush Is Focused on Removing Al-Qaeda’s Top Leaders, Not Interested in Root Causes of Terrorism 2004-10-22
- October 29, 2004: Bush Authorizes Pentagon, and Not Just CIA, to Give Cash, Equipment, and Weapons to Foreign Fighters 2004-10-29
- January 17-18, 2005: Military Analysts Attribute Iran Article to ‘Disgruntled CIA Employees Who… Should be Taken out and Shot’; Report Back to Pentagon with Results 2005-01-17
- April 29, 2008: NBC Anchorman Defends Network’s Military Analysts 2008-04-29
- June 2002: CIA Claims to Get Vital Intelligence from Torture of Zubaida, but Others Claim His Leads Are Mostly Vague and Useless
- Mid-October 2001: Some Bush Administration Officials Excited about Using Anthrax Attacks to Push for War against Iraq
- 2002: US Refuses to Exchange Information with Iran about Islamist Militants
- 1990-1991: Chalabi Furthers Ties with US Neoconservatives
- 1995-2001: Persian Gulf Elite Go Hunting with Bin Laden and Mullah Omar in Afghanistan
- Early 2002 and Beyond: Pentagon Uses Military Analysts to Shape Opinions of Upcoming Iraq War
- Late 2001: President Bush Fails to Fund Program to Reform Radical Islamist Boarding Schools in Pakistan
- March 2001: US Begins Giving Weapons Training to Members of INC
- Late 1998: ’Downing Plan’ to Overthrow Hussein Government Rejected by General Zinni
- July 1998: Ahmed Chalabi Asks UN Weapons Inspector to Do Intelligence Work for INC; Reveals His Own Ambitions for Iraq
- Early November 2001: New Counterterrorism ‘Tsar’ Is Drawing up Plans for Take Over of Iraq