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324
: Some details about the Criminal Justice Information Services Division from Peter Meyer, “26306: FBI,”
National Geographic,
May 2005.

324
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325
: Some details of the discovery of Qahtani at Guantanamo from the FBI/OIG Report; “Case Study: FBI,” an undated report by Cross Match Technologies; and Tim Golden and Don Van Natta Jr., “U.S. Said to Overstate Value of Guantanamo Detainees,”
New York Times,
June 21, 2004.

324
: Details of Qahtani at the airport from the Meléndez-Pérez testimony.

325
: Details of the actions by Mohammed Atta at the Orlando Airport from Charge Sheet, “Name of Accused: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al.,” filed on MC Form 458 for the Office of Military Commissions, February 11, 2008.

325
:
Some details about the concerns about an attack in the summer of 2002 from the June 17, 2008, testimony of William Haynes II before the Senate Armed Services Committee in the hearings headed “Origins of Aggressive Interrogation Techniques.” The concerns are referenced in Eric Lichtblau, “FBI Braces for Possibility of July 4 Attacks,”
Los Angeles Times,
June 19, 2002. In addition to information coming from a foreign intelligence service—which was at first dismissed as unreliable—information provided by Zubaydah reinforced those fears.

326
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327
: Details of the guilty plea of Lindh from a transcript of the hearing. Also see Bob Franken and John King, “ ‘I Plead Guilty,’ Taliban American Says,” CNN.com/Law Center, posted July 17, 2002; and Jane Mayer, “Lost in the Jihad,”
New Yorker,
March 10, 2003.

327
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328
: Haynes discussed the disappointment with the information coming out of Guantanamo in his June 17, 2008, congressional testimony. Some details of the discussions between Haynes, Shiffrin, and Baumgartner from Shiffrin and Baumgartner’s June 17, 2008, testimony before the House Armed Services Committee in the hearings headed “Origins of Aggressive Interrogation Techniques.” Also see “Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody,”
Report of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate,
November 20, 2008 (
Armed Services Report
).

328
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330
: Some details of the beliefs of the Blair officials from the July 23, 2002, entry in the Campbell diaries. Also see the January 29, 2010, testimony of Tony Blair and the November 30, 2009, testimony of David Manning before the Chilcot Inquiry.

329
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330
: The battles between Doumar and the administration from
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld,
civil action no. 2:02cv439, filed in Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division: “Order” of July 18, 2002; “Order” of July 22, 2002; “Respondents’ Response to, and Motion to Dissmiss, the Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus” of July 25, 2002; “Respondents’ Memorandum in Support of Motion for Relief from This Court’s Order Requiring the Government to File Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 26(a)(1) Initial Disclosures” of July 24, 2002. Also see Tim McGlone, “Norfolk Judge Insists He Be Told Why Hamdi Is Being Held,”
Virginian-Pilot,
July 19, 2002; McGlone, “Judge Slams Government for Ignoring Order in Hamdi Case,”
Virginian-Pilot,
July 24, 2002; McGlone, “Government Lawyers Object to Order for Summary by Judge in Hamdi Case,”
Virginian-Pilot,
July 23, 2002.

329
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330
: Details of the Mobbs declaration from the original document.

330
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331
: Some details of Baumgartner’s work and his conversations with Ogrisseg from the June 17, 2008, testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in the hearings headed “Origins of Aggressive Interrogation Techniques.” Also see
Armed Services Report.
Background about the air force’s concerns regarding the use of SERE techniques from a November 2, 2002, memo from USAF Colonel Ronald E. Richburg entitled “Memo for UN and Multilateral Affairs Division (J-5), Joint Staff (Attn. CDR Lippold); Subject: Counter-Resistance Techniques.”

331
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332
: Details of the Baumgartner memos and their attachments from the original documents.

332
: Some details of the “carotid” interrogation from Central Intelligence Agency Inspector General Special Review,
Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities (September 2001–October 2003),
2003-7123-IG, May 7, 2004 (
CIA IG Report
).

332
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333
: Some details of the initial interrogation of Qahtani from the FBI/OIG Report; “Summary of Administrative Board Proceedings for ISN 063,” before an administrative review board at Guantanamo; and a partially unclassified FBI 302 of a September 10, 2004, interview with an unnamed agent for file no. 297-HQ-A1327699-A. Also see Golden and Van Natta,
New York Times,
June 21, 2004.

333
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334
:
Some details of the issues discussed in the OLC meetings from the OLC Report.

334
: Quotes from the final draft of the OLC Memo from Jay S. Bybee, “Memorandum for John Rizzo, Acting General Counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency: Interrogation of al Qaeda Operative,” August 1, 2002.

335
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336
: Details of Kollar-Kotelly’s decision from “Memorandum Opinion,” in
Shafiq Rasul v. George Walker Bush,
civil action no. 02-299; and
Fawiz Khalid Abdullah Fahad al-Odah v. United States,
civil action no. 02-828, filed July 31, 2002, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Also see “Brief for Plaintiffs-Appellants,”
al-Odah v. United States,
filed with the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, case no. 02-5251. Details of the Wilner e-mail from the original document.

336
: Details of the Wilner–
al-Odah
e-mails from the original documents.

337
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338
: Some details from the CIA interrogation of Zubaydah from CIA/OIG Report; the CIA Medical Guidelines; Steven G. Bradbury, “Memorandum for John Rizzo, Acting General Counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency: Re: Application of 18 U.S.C. §§2340–2340A to the Combined Use of Certain Techniques in the Interrogation of High Value al Qaeda Detainees,” May 10, 2005; the CIA/OIG Memorandum for the Record; and the ICRC Report.

338
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339
: Some details of the concerns of Powell, the dialogue of his conversations with Bush, and the Franks presentation from Bob Woodward,
Plan of Attack,
Simon & Schuster, 2004. Also see Christopher Meyer,
DC Confidential,
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005.

339
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340
: Some details of the Soufan interrogation with Qahtani from the FBI/OIG Report. Also see Golden and Van Natta,
New York Times,
June 21, 2004; and Michael Isikoff, “We Could Have Done This the Right Way,”
Newsweek,
April 25, 2009.

340
: Some details of the removal of the Princeton mailbox from the first Arredondo affidavit; Center for Counterproliferation Research,
Working Paper: Anthrax in America,
November 2002; and Leslie Koren and Wendy Ruderman, “Anthrax Spores Found in Mailbox,”
Record
(Bergen County), August 13, 2002.

341
: Details of the August 13 hearing before Judge Doumar from a transcript of the event. Also see Tom Jackman, “Judge Skewers U.S. Curbs on Detainee,”
Washington Post,
August 14, 2002.

342
: Quotes from Doumar’s ruling out of the original document filed August 16, 2002.

342
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343
: Some details of the Pasquale D’Amuro meetings from the FBI/OIG Report. Also see Isikoff,
Newsweek,
April 25, 2009.

344
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345
: Some details of the outcomes from Zubaydah’s cooperation from Steven G. Bradbury, “Memorandum for John Rizzo”; Bradbury memo for Rizzo, “Re: Application of United States Obligations Under Article 16 of the Convention Against Torture to Certain Techniques That May Be Used in the Interrogation of High Value al Qaeda Detainees,” May 30, 2005. Also see CIA Directorate of Intelligence,
Detainee Reporting Pivotal for the War Against Al-Qa’ida
(Secret/Noforn), June 3, 2005 (
CI/DI Report
); a partially declassified CIA Report numbered C05403863 (
CIA Numbered Report
). Also see Chitra Ragavan, “A Hunt for the Pilot,”
U.S. News & World Report,
March 30, 2003.

345
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346
: Some details of the Lady-Pironi dinner from a formal statement given by Pironi on April 14, 2006, to the Milan district attorney. Also see “Decree for the Application of Coercive Measures,” filed with the Judge Presiding of Preliminary Investigations in Milan, filed under article 292 c.p.p., no. 10838/05.

346
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347
: Some details of the robbery at the Toko Elita Indah jewelry store from Wayne Turnbull, “Bali: Developing the Tactical Plan,”
Monterey Institute of International Studies,
July 31, 2003; Matt Cianflone et al., “Anatomy of a Terrorist Attack,” a report prepared for the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2007; and Eric Ellis, “Allah’s Assassins,”
Bulletin,
March 5, 2003.

349
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Some details of the torture of Almalki from the Iacobucci Report, the Toope Report; the O’Connor Report; Paul Copeland, “Abdullah Almalki: Chronology”; and Kenny Pither,
Dark Days,
Viking Canada, 2008.

350
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351
: Some details about Black’s writing of his statement from the September 26, 2002, document, “Unclassified Testimony of Cofer Black,” delivered to Congress’s Joint Select Committee on Intelligence that was investigating the 9/11 attacks.

351
: Some details of the detection of bin al-Shibh’s call from Jason Burke, “Brutal Gun-Battle That Crushed 9/11 Terrorists,”
Observer,
September 15, 2002; and Mayer,
The Dark Side.

352
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353
: The description of the stage at the VFW convention from photographs of the event. Quotes from Cheney’s speech from “Full Text of Dick Cheney’s Speech,”
Guardian,
August 27, 2002.

353
: Some details of the White House reaction to Cheney’s speech from Julian Borger, “White House in Disarray over Cheney Speech,”
Guardian,
September 2, 2002; Borger, “Daggers Drawn in the House of Bush,”
Guardian,
August 28, 2002; and Meyer,
DC Confidential.

353
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354
: Some details of Meyer’s reaction to the Cheney speech and the call from the Clinton official from Meyer,
DC Confidential.

354
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357
: Some details of the September 8 meetings between Blair and Bush from the Campbell diaries. Also see the January 29, 2010, testimony of Tony Blair; the November 30, 2009, testimony of David Manning; and the January 10, 2010, testimony of Jack Straw before the Chilcot Inquiry.

358
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359
: Details of the intelligence report, “Iraq: Status of WMD Programs,” from the original document. Rumsfeld’s e-mail to Myers from the original document.

361
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363
: Some details of the capture of bin al-Shibh from the December 8, 2006, memo from Harry B. Harris Jr., “The Joint Task Force at Guantanamo to the Commander for United States Southern Command in Miami; Subject: Combatant Status Review Tribunal Input and Recommendations for Continued Detention Under DOD Control (CD) for Guantanamo Detainee, ISN US9YM-010013DP (S)” (
Detainee Assessment, Ramzi bin al-Shibh
); Jason Burke, “Brutal Gun-Battle That Crushed 9/11 Terrorists,”
Observer,
September 15, 2002; and Michael Elliott, “Reeling in al-Qaeda,”
Time,
September 15, 2002. Also see K. Alan Kronstadt and Bruce Vaughn, “Terrorism in South Asia,” CRS Report for Congress, August 31, 2005; Laila Bokhari, “Paths to Global Jihad,” FFI Rapport, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, March 15, 2006; Fouda and Fielding,
Masterminds of Terror;
“Top al-Qaeda Suspect Captured,” BBC News, September 14, 2002; and “Binalshibh to Go to Third Country for Questioning,” CNN World News, September 17, 2002.

363
: Details of the plot against Musharraf from the September 19, 2002, testimony of Richard Armitage before the Joint Hearing of the House and Senate Committees on Intelligence, “Events Surrounding the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001.”

364
: Details of the atmosphere and events surrounding Bush’s presentation at the U.N. from a videotape of the event. The words of his speech from a transcript in
Public Papers of the President, George W. Bush 2001,
Vol 2. Also see Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, “Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq,” July 7, 2004 (
the Senate Prewar Report on Iraq
); and Steven Metz, Army War College, “Decisionmaking in Operation Iraqi Freedom: Removing Saddam Hussein by Force,” Operation Iraqi Freedom Key Decisions Monograph Series, February 2010 (
War College monograph
).

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366
:
The troubles with Bush’s teleprompter, and the subsequent calls to allies, were first disclosed in the November 30, 2009, testimony of David Manning before the Iraq inquiry.

366
: Some details of the Hans Blix WMD effort from Hans Blix,
Disarming Iraq,
Pantheon, 2004; Sharon A. Squassoni, “Iraq: U.N. Inspections for Weapons of Mass Destruction,” Congressional Research Service, Code RL31671, October 7, 2003 (
CRS WMD Report
); the September 26, 2006, Blix testimony before the House Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, in a hearing entitled “Nuclear Nonproliferation (
Blix House testimony
); and Blix’s testimony of July 27, 2010, before the Chilcot Inquiry (
Blix Chilcot testimony
.)