In My Time - Dick Cheney [282]
346 never exceeding four thousand: Douglas J. Feith, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), p. 88.
348 was collecting intelligence: Michael V. Hayden, Address to the National Press Club: What American Intelligence & Especially the NSA Have Been Doing to Defend the Nation, January 23, 2006, http://www.dni.gov/speeches/printer_friendly/20060123_speech_print.htm.
349 a related terrorist organization: For additional information on the terrorist surveillance program, see Michael V. Hayden, Hearing Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, May 18, 2006, http://intelligence.senate.gov/109808.pdf.
349 “identified them as such”: Hayden, Address to the National Press Club.
350 lawful approximately twenty times: Letter from Shannen Coffin, Counsel to the Vice President, to Senator Patrick Leahy, August 20, 2007; Authorizations for the program dated October 4, November 2, and November 30, 2001; January 9, March 14, April 18, May 21, June 24, July 30, September 10, October 15, and November 18, 2002; January 8, February 7, March 17, April 22, June 11, July 14, September 10, October 15, and December 9, 2003; January 14, 2004.
353 “should have been published”: Byron Calame, “Banking Data: A Mea Culpa,” New York Times, October 22, 2006.
354 riot at Qala-i-Jangi: Alex Perry, “Inside the Battle at Qala-i-Jangi,” Time, December 1, 2001.
354 and medical care: Thomas Joscelyn, “The Real Gitmo: What I Saw at America’s Best Detention Facility for Terrorists,” Weekly Standard, December 28, 2009.
355 “endanger civilians in war”: Ronald Reagan, Message to the Senate Transmitting a Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, January 29, 1987, http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1987/012987B.HTM.
356 appearing in only three: Thomas Joscelyn, “Gitmo Is Not al Qaeda’s ‘Number One Recruitment Tool,’” Weekly Standard, December 27, 2010, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/gitmo-not-al-qaedas-number-one-recruitment-tool_524997.html.
357–58 Abu Zubaydah capture and interrogation: George W. Bush, Address to the Nation, September 6, 2006; Michael V. Hayden, Classified Statement for the Record before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, April 12, 2007 (since declassified); George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), pp. 145–47 and 241–43.
359 building on the West Coast: Central Intelligence Agency, “Khalid Shaykh Muhammad: Preeminent Source On Al-Qa’ida,” July 13, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/Khalid_Shayhk_Muhammad.pdf.
360 “lives of innocent people”: Marc A. Thiessen, Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing), pp. 159–60. For Thorsness Medal of Honor citation, see http://www.militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=2195.
360 “the right thing”: Thiessen, Courting Disaster, pp. 158 and 162. For Day Medal of Honor citation, see http://militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=1075.
360 what they were learning: Hayden, Statement for the Record, April 12, 2007.
362 endanger our CIA operatives: Evan Thomas, “Why Is This Spy Smiling?” Newsweek, May 16, 2009.
364 derailed by Desert Storm: International Atomic Energy Agency, The Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolutions Relating to Iraq, August 12, 1996.
365 “reestablish Iraq’s WMD programs”: Director of Central Intelligence, National In–telligence Estimate, “Prospects for Iraq: Saddam and Beyond,” December 1993, p. vii, http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0001188931/DOC_0001188931.pdf.
365 “its nuclear weapons program”: quoted in Charles S. Robb and Laurence H. Silberman, The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, Report to the President of the United States, March 31, 2005, part 1, p. 54, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/wmd/pdf/full_wmd_report.pdf.