46 J. Cofer Black testimony before the Joint House/Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing into September 11, September 26, 2002.
47 Gordon Corera, “How Terror Attacks Changed the CIA,” BBC News Online, March 12, 2006.
48 Bob Woodward, Bush at War, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002, p. 52.
49 Ibid.
50 Ibid.
51 Gary Schroen, First In: An Insider’s Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan, Ballantine, New York, 2005, p. 38.
52 Ibid.
53 Ibid.
54 Jane Mayer, “The Search for Osama,” The New Yorker, August 4, 2003.
55 Bob Woodward, Bush at War, p. 103.
56 Robert Young Pelton, Licensed to Kill, pp. 30-32.
57 Transcript, Interview with Steve Coll, PBS Frontline, www.pbs.org/ wgbh/pages/frontline/ darkside/interviews/coll.html, posted June 20, 2006.
58 Dana Priest, “Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake German Citizen Released After Months in ‘Rendition,’” Washington Post, December 4, 2005.
59 Ibid.
60 Dana Priest and Barton Gellman, “U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations; ‘Stress and Duress’ Tactics Used on Terrorism Suspects Held in Secret Overseas Facilities,” Washington Post, December 26, 2002.
61 Transcript, Wolf Blitzer Reports, CNN, April 30, 2004.
62 Dana Priest, “Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake German Citizen Released After Months in ‘Rendition,’” Washington Post, December 4, 2005.
63 Ibid.
64 Dana Priest and Barton Gellman, “U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations; ‘Stress and Duress’ Tactics Used on Terrorism Suspects Held in Secret Overseas Facilities,” Washington Post, December 26, 2002.
65 Ibid.
66 Michael Hirsh, John Barry, and Daniel Klaidman, “A Tortured Debate,” Newsweek, June 21, 2004.
67 Jane Mayer, “Outsourcing Torture,” The New Yorker, February 14, 2005.
68 Ibid.
69 Jane Mayer, “Outsourcing Torture,” The New Yorker, February 14, 2005.
70 Evan Thomas and Michael Hirsh, “Torture and Terror: Interrogators Have Pondered the Uses of Torture for Centuries and in the Wake of 9/11 the US Has Embraced So-called Torture Lite,” Newsweek, November 22, 2005.
71 Dana Priest, “Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake German Citizen Released After Months in ‘Rendition,’” the Washington Post, December 4, 2005.
72 Richard Sale, “Embarrassed Rumsfeld Fired CIA Official,” United Press International, July 28, 2004.
73 Barton Gellman and Thomas E. Ricks, “U.S. Concludes Bin Laden Escaped at Tora Bora Fight; Failure to Send Troops in Pursuit Termed Major Error,” the Washington Post, April 17, 2002.
74 Bob Woodward and Dan Eggen, “Aug. Memo Focused on Attacks in U.S. Lack of Fresh Information Frustrated Bush,” the Washington Post, May 19, 2002.
75 Richard Sale, “Embarrassed Rumsfeld Fired CIA Official,” United Press International, July 28, 2004.
76 Ibid.
77 White House press release, October 10, 2002.
78 Transcript, “Counterterrorism Chief Says Terrorist Attacks Fell Sharply in 2002,” U.S. State Department, May 14, 2002.
79 Transcript, 2003 State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003.
80 Kathleen T. Rhem, “State Department: Terrorist Attacks Down 44 Percent in 2002,” American Forces Press Service, April 30, 2003.
81 Transcript, “Release of the 2003 ‘Patterns of Global Terrorism’ Annual Report,” U.S. Department of State, April 29, 2004.
82 Transcript, “Rollout of ‘Patterns of Global Terrorism 2003’ Annual Report,” U.S. Department of State, April 29, 2004.
83 Alan B. Krueger and David Laitin, “Faulty Terror Report Card,” the Washington Post, May 17, 2004.
84 Ibid.
85 “Verbatim,” Time (Asia), July 5, 2004.
86 Cam Simpson (Chicago Tribune), “Corrected Report Shows 2003 Terror Attacks the Highest in 2 Decades,” Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June 23, 2004.
87 Alan B. Krueger and David Laitin, “Faulty Terror Report Card,” the Washington Post, May 17, 2004.
88 Transcript, “Ambassador J. Cofer Black, Coordinator, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism Foreign Press Center Briefing,” U.S. Department of State, April 29, 2004.
89 Barry Schweid, “Revised State Department Report Shows Rise in Terror Incidents Worldwide,” Associated Press, June 23, 2004.
90 Author copy of letter.
91 Paul Krugman, “White House Claims on Terrorism Don’t Add Up,” International Herald Tribune, June 26, 2004.
92 Salamander Davoudi, “US Re-Releases Flawed Global Terror Report,” Financial Times, June 23, 2004.
93 Paul Krugman, “White House Claims on Terrorism Don’t Add Up,” International Herald Tribune, June 26, 2004.
94 Barry Schweid, “Revised State Department Report Shows Rise in Terror Incidents Worldwide,” Associated Press, June 23, 2004.
95 Ibid.
96 Ann Scott Tyson and Dana Priest, “Pentagon Seeking Leeway Overseas; Operations Could Bypass Envoys,” the Washington Post, February 24, 2005.
97 “US Supplies Three Patrol Ships to Boost Olympic Security,” Agence France-Presse, June 26, 2004.
98 Ibid.
99 BlackwaterUSA.com, captured November 30, 2006.
100 “Blackwater’s Top Brass,” the Virginian-Pilot, July 24, 2006.
101 Transcript, “Hearing of the International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Human Rights Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee,” April 1, 2004.
102 Ibid.
103 Blackwater Tactical Weekly, May 17, 2004.
104 Paul Wiseman, “The Hunt for Bin Laden: Dragnet Snares Many of His Men, But Terrorist Kingpin Still at Large,” USA Today, September 10, 2004.
105 “US State Department Counter-Terrorism Chief Resigns,” AFX News, November 7, 2004.
106 Douglas Jehl, “Officials Won’t Be Disciplined for Actions Before Sept. 11,” the New York Times, October 6, 2005.
107 John B. Roberts II, “Chinese Mole Hunt at CIA; Agency Keeps Human-Intelligence Apparatus, Barely,” the Washington Times, October 14, 2005.
108 Blackwater USA Press Release, “Ambassador Cofer Black Becomes Vice-Chairman at Blackwater USA,” February 4, 2005.
109 The Black Group Web site, www.blackgroupllc.com/services.html, captured November 30, 2006.
110 The Black Group Web site, www.blackgroundllc.com/about.html, captured November 30, 2006.
111 The Black Group Web site, www.blackgroupllc.com/contact.html, captured November 30, 2006.
112 The Black Group Web site, www.blackgroupllc.com/, captured November 30, 2006.
CHAPTER 17
1 Transcript, “President Bush Discusses Early Transfer of Iraqi Sovereignty,” www.whitehouse.gov, June 28, 2004.
2 L. Paul Bremer III, My Year in Iraq, p. 395.
3 Transcript, “President Bush Discusses Early Transfer of Iraqi Sovereignty,” www.whitehouse.gov, June 28, 2004.