"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" -Oscar Wilde |
"The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself." -- Proverbs 11:25 |
The released notes document Donald Rumsfeld's 2:40 PM instructions to General Myers to find the "[b]est info fast . . . judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] at same time - not only UBL [Usama Bin Laden]" (as discussed on p. 334-335 of the 9/11 Commission Report and in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack).
In addition, the documents confirm the contents of CBS News' Sept. 4, 2002 report "Plans For Iraq Attack Began on 9/11," which quoted Rumsfeld's notes as stating: "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not." These lines were not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report or Woodward's Plan of Attack, and to my knowledge, have not been independently confirmed by any other source. After the Rathergate fiasco, I wondered if CBS had been fooled into publishing a story that, from a publicity perspective, seemed too good to be true.
Finally, these documents unveil a previously undisclosed part of the 2:40 PM discussion. Several lines below the "judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. at same time" line, Cambone's notes from the conversation read: "Hard to get a good case."
2:40
Resume Statement:
Best info fast
judge whether good enough
Hit S.H@ same time -
Not just UBL
Tasks Jim Haynes to talk w/ PW
for additional support v/v Usis &
connection w/ UBL
[REDACTED (N.R. stands for Not Relevant)]
- Hard to get a good case
- Need to move swiftly -
Near term target needs -
- go massive - sweep it all up
- Things related & not
[ARROW]
Need to do so
to get anything
useful"
9:53 PM EST:
VP Report:
1) CIA intercept
[redacted]
2) AA77 - 3 indiv have been followed
since Millennium & Cole
1 guy is assoc of Cole bomber
3 entered US in early July (2 of 3 pulled aside and interrogated?)
3) No M.O.
Mr Wolfowitz, now the head of the World Bank, advocated regime change in Iraq before 2001. But, according to an account of the days after September 11 in Bob Woodward's book Plan of Attack, a decision was taken to put off consideration of an attack on Iraq until after the Taliban had been toppled in Afghanistan.
But these notes confirm that Baghdad was in the Pentagon's sights almost as soon as the hijackers struck.