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Events Leading Up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

2476 events in this timeline

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  1. 2004-02-13 February 13, 2004: Fitzgerald Grants Former White House Press Secretary Immunity in Return for Testimony
  2. 2004-02-14 February 14, 2004: CIA Tells White House that Prisoner Has Recanted Claim Iraq Gave Poison and Gas Training to Al-Qaeda
  3. 2004-02-18 February 18, 2004: Chalabi Says Iraqi National Congress ‘Heroes in Error’
  4. 2004-02-24 February 24, 2004: Tenet Says Atta Meeting in Prague Cannot Be Proven or Disproven
  5. 2004-02-24 February 24, 2004: State Department Official Gives Testimony to FBI
  6. 2004-02-25 February 25, 2004: Novak Testifies before Fitzgerald Grand Jury
  7. 2004-02-26 February 26, 2004: British Whistleblower Free after Government Refuses to Reveal Information Necessary for Prosecution
  8. 2004-02-26 February 26, 2004: Judith Miller Says Reporters Do Not Need to Assess the Quality of Information Given by US Government
  9. 2004-03-01 March 1, 2004: Rove Finds Documentation Proving July 2003 Conversation with Time Reporter
  10. 2004-03-01 March 1, 2004: Reporter Alerts Rove Lawyer of Colleague’s Info regarding Plame Wilson Leak
  11. 2004-03-05 March 5, 2004: Libby Lies to Grand Jury
  12. 2004-03-12 March 12, 2004: State Department Official Gives Testimony to Plame Wilson Grand Jury
  13. 2004-03-18 March 18, 2004: Prominent Journalists Criticize US Media’s Coverage of Bush Administration’s Push to Invade Iraq
  14. 2004-03-22 March 22, 2004: Richard Clarke Sees Halfhearted Effort in Afghanistan War because of Iraq War
  15. 2004-03-24 March 24, 2004: Libby Lies to Grand Jury Again
  16. 2004-04-22 April 22, 2004: Limbaugh: ‘Liberal Media’ Responsible for Misconceptions about Iraqi WMD
  17. 2004-04-22 April 22, 2004: CIA Briefer Interviewed Again by FBI
  18. 2004-04-30 April 30, 2004: Wilson: US Should Have Used Cold War ‘Blueprint’ to Achieve Regime Change in Iraq without War
  19. 2004-05-02 May 2, 2004: Wilson Says He Never Discussed Uranium with Nigerien Official in 1999
  20. 2004-05-08 May 8, 2004: Cheney Interviewed by Plame Leak Investigators, Evades Questions
  21. 2004-05-12 May 12, 2004: Dean: Wilson’s Book Details ‘Vicious Hatchet Job’ against Him, Wife
  22. 2004-05-13 May 13-20, 2004: Russert Refuses to Testify before Grand Jury; Fitzgerald Issues Subpoena
  23. 2004-05-14 May 14, 2004: Fitzgerald Intends to Interview Washington Post, Newsday Reporters
  24. 2004-05-21 May 21, 2004: NBC Intends to Fight Russert Subpoena
  25. 2004-05-21 May 21, 2004: Plame Wilson Jury Subpoenas Time, NBC Reporters
  26. 2004-06-02 June 2, 2004: Fitzgerald Tells Russert He Will Ask about Conversation with Libby
  27. 2004-06-03 June 3, 2004: Time Reporter Moves to Quash Fitzgerald Subpoena
  28. 2004-06-04 June 4, 2004: NBC Moves to Quash Fitzgerald Subpoena
  29. 2004-06-04 June 4, 2004: American Enterprise Institute Scholar Defends Ahmed Chalabi
  30. 2004-06-05 June 5, 2004: Bush Retains Lawyer for Plame Leak Case
  31. 2004-06-08 June 8, 2004-June 15, 2004: Study Finds 69 Percent of Americans Think Hussein Aided Al-Qaeda
  32. 2004-06-09 June 9, 2004: Former British Official Tells Butler Inquiry What British Government Really Thought about Iraq Prior to the Invasion
  33. 2004-06-10 June 10, 2004: Bush Says He Will Stand by Pledge to Fire Leakers
  34. 2004-06-10 June 10, 2004: Bush Vows to Fire Anyone Found to Have Leaked Plame Wilson’s Identity
  35. 2004-06-10 June 10, 2004: Fleischer Testifies to FBI Regarding Plame Wilson Leak
  36. 2004-06-14 June 14, 2004: Cheney Repeats Claims of Ties Between Hussein and Al-Qaeda
  37. 2004-06-15 June 15, 2004: Bush Claims Hussein Was Linked to ‘Terrorist Organizations’
  38. 2004-06-15 June 15, 2004: President Bush Continues to Maintain There Was Al-Qaeda-Hussein Relationship
  39. 2004-06-16 June 16, 2004: 9/11 Commission Asserts Atta Meeting in Prague Never Took Place
  40. 2004-06-17 After June 17, 2004: 9/11 Commissioners Unsettled by Cheney’s Media Attack over Lack of Al-Qaeda-Iraq Link; Staff Reviews Evidence Again
  41. 2004-06-17 June 17, 2004: Bush Defends Claims of Relationship between Iraq and Al-Qaeda
  42. 2004-06-17 June 17, 2004: Cheney Refuses to Abandon ‘Prague Connection’ Theory
  43. 2004-06-18 June 18, 2004: Gonzales Testifies before Plame Wilson Grand Jury
  44. 2004-06-22 June 22, 2004: Washington Post Reporter Testifies Libby Did Not Divulge Plame Wilson Identity to Him
  45. 2004-06-24 June 24, 2004: Bush Interviewed by Fitzgerald Regarding Plame Wilson Leak, Contradicts Cheney
  46. 2004-07-01 July 1, 2004: Tenet Says CIA Is ‘Increasingly Skeptical’ about Alleged Atta-Iraqi Agent Meeting
  47. 2004-07-09 July 9, 2004: Senate Intelligence Committee Report Finds Widespread Failures in Intelligence Gathering, Analysis in Pre-War Assessments
  48. 2004-07-09 July 9, 2004: Former INC Official Admits Falsifying Defector Stories
  49. 2004-07-12 July 12, 2004: Cheney: Democrats ‘Trying to Rewrite History’ in Criticizing Use of Flawed Intelligence
  50. 2004-07-12 After July 12, 2004: CIA Officer Reminds Plame Wilson that He, Not She, Recommended Her Husband for Niger Mission