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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2476 events in this timeline

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  1. 2003-06-11 12:00 p.m. June 11, 2003: State Department Official Reveals Plame Wilson’s Undercover Status to Libby
  2. 2003-06-11 5:27 p.m. June 11, 2003: CIA Spokesman Tells Cheney’s Communications Director that Wilson’s Wife Is CIA Official; She Passes Info to Cheney, Libby
  3. 2003-06-11 2:00 p.m. June 11, 2003: Libby Grills CIA Official about Wilson, Wife
  4. 2003-06-11 12:00 p.m. June 11, 2003: CIA Deputy Director Discusses Wilson Trip with Cheney
  5. 2003-06-11 June 11, 2003: Post Reporter Discusses Wilson Trip to Niger with Libby
  6. 2003-06-11 June 11, 2003: Senate Intelligence Committee Releases Report Contradicting Evidence in Iraq-Niger Claims
  7. 2003-06-11 (June 11, 2003): CIA Official Tells Libby of Joseph Wilson Wife’s CIA Status
  8. 2003-06-11 June 11, 2003: Republicans Reject Calls for Investigation of Pre-War Iraq Intelligence
  9. 2003-06-12 June 12, 2003: Deputy Secretary of State Asks for Wilson Information
  10. 2003-06-12 (June 12, 2003): Cheney Tells Libby that Plame Wilson Is a CIA Agent in Counterproliferation Division
  11. 2003-06-12 June 12, 2003: Washington Post Article Uses White House Claims that CIA Did Not Inform Bush Officials of Iraq-Niger Doubts
  12. 2003-06-12 June 12, 2003: White House, NSC, State Department Discuss Wilson Trip after Post Article Published; Plame Wilson Identity Discussed
  13. 2003-06-12 June 12, 2003: Report Alleges Niger Uranium Bound for Iraq Being Held in Benin
  14. 2003-06-12 June 12, 2003: US Owns Fleet of Hydrogen Generator-Equipped Humvees
  15. 2003-06-12 June 12, 2003: National Security Council Spokesman Insists There Is Other Evidence Supporting the Uranium-From-Africa Claim
  16. 2003-06-13 June 13, 2003: Senior State Department Official Tells Reporter that Valerie Plame Wilson Is a CIA Agent
  17. 2003-06-13 June 13, 2003: Columnist Contradicts Rice’s, Cheney’s Disavowal of Knowledge of Iraq-Niger Forgeries
  18. 2003-06-13 June 13, 2003: Army Chief Retires after Public Rebuke by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz
  19. 2003-06-14 7:00 a.m. June 14, 2003: Libby Discusses Plame Wilson with CIA Briefer
  20. 2003-06-17 June 17, 2003: CIA Memo States that There Is Insufficient Evidence to Back Iraq-Niger Uranium Allegation
  21. 2003-06-17 June 17, 2003: Tribal Leader Says Iraqis Will Not Accept ‘Humiliation’
  22. 2003-06-18 June 18-19, 2003: CIA Official Briefs Senate, House Intelligence Committee Members on Iraq-Niger Assessment
  23. 2003-06-18 June 18, 2003: Bremer: ‘We are the Occupying Power’
  24. 2003-06-18 (June 18, 2003): Pentagon-Sponsored Technical Report: Trailers Not Used to Make Biological Weapons
  25. 2003-06-19 June 19, 2003: Anaylst Says Britian and Australia Knew Iraq Was No Threat
  26. 2003-06-20 June 20, 2003: Woodward Interviews Card for Book, Does Not Ask about Plame Wilson
  27. 2003-06-22 June 22, 2003: Wilson Realizes He Must Write of His Knowledge of Iraq-Niger Uranium Claim
  28. 2003-06-23 June 23, 2003: Libby Outs CIA Official to New York Times Reporter
  29. 2003-06-23 June 23, 2003: Washington Post Reporter Speaks to Libby, Does Not Discuss ‘Outed’ CIA Agent
  30. 2003-06-23 June 23, 2003: Woodward Sends Libby Questions for Cheney; Does Not Ask about Plame Wilson
  31. 2003-06-25 Between March 2003 and June 25, 2003: Top Al-Qaeda Prisoners Deny Al-Qaeda-Iraq Link
  32. 2003-06-27 June 27, 2003: Post Reporter Meets Libby, Apparently Does Not Ask about Plame Wilson; Receives Classified Information about Iraqi Uranium
  33. 2003-06-28 June 28, 2003: Bremer Expresses Reluctance about Holding Election Too Early
  34. 2003-06-30 June 30, 2003: Bremer Says US Determined to Impose Law and Order upon Iraq
  35. 2003-07-02 July 2, 2003: Libby Discloses NIE Information to New York Times Reporter
  36. 2003-07-06 July 6, 2003: White House Denies Cheney Asked for Wilson Trip to Niger
  37. 2003-07-06 July 6, 2003: Wilson Discusses Failure of Arguments for War on ‘Meet the Press’
  38. 2003-07-06 July 6-7, 2003: White House Press Secretary Admits Nigerien Uranium Claims ‘Incorrect’
  39. 2003-07-06 July 6-10, 2003: White House Officials Work to Declassify Information to Debunk Wilson
  40. 2003-07-06 July 6, 2003: Wilson Op-Ed Charges Bush Administration with Deliberately Lying about Iraqi Attempts to Procure African Uranium
  41. 2003-07-07 12:00 p.m. July 7, 2003: Libby Tells Press Secretary of Plame Wilson’s CIA Status
  42. 2003-07-07 9:22 a.m. July 7, 2003: Cheney Communications Director Sends Talking Points Concerning Wilson to White House Press Spokesman
  43. 2003-07-07 July 7, 2003: State Department Memo Identifying Plame Wilson Sent to Powell through White House
  44. 2003-07-07 July 7, 2003: White House Press Secretary Speaks with Conservative Columnist Novak
  45. 2003-07-07 8:45 a.m. July 7, 2003: Rove: White House Needs to Emphasize that Cheney Did Not Send Wilson to Niger
  46. 2003-07-07 July 7, 2003 and After: Wilson Op-Ed Produces Strong Reactions
  47. 2003-07-07 July 7-8, 2003: Cheney Revises Talking Points to Indicate Plame Wilson Sent Husband to Niger; Increases Chance that Reporters Will Learn Her Covert CIA Status
  48. 2003-07-07 July 7, 2003 or Shortly After: Cheney Asks Libby if Wilson’s Niger Mission Legitimate or ‘Junket Set Up by Wilson’s Wife’; Notates Wilson’s Op-Ed
  49. 2003-07-07 July 7, 2003: White House Hedges over Yellowcake Claim
  50. 2003-07-08 7:35 a.m. July 8, 2003: Cheney Authorizes Libby to Leak Classified Information to Reporter