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At the bush administration's first high-level meeting on terrorism in April 2001, Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism czar, was briefing on al-Qaeda. "Wait a minute," Clarke recalls Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz saying. "Why are we talking about al-Qaeda? We have to talk about Iraqi-sponsored...
Why didn't you respond to the al-Qaeda attack on the U.S.S. Cole? The attack occurred on Oct. 12, 2000; 17 American sailors were killed. The Clinton Administration wanted to declare war on al-Qaeda. An aggressive military response was prepared, including special-forces attacks on al-Qaeda training...
Who bears more responsibility for overstating the significance of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program in the months leading up to the war--the CIA, which gathered the intelligence now in question, or the White House, which may have pumped up that intelligence for its own purposes? A...
In the middle of a war--or is it a war?--Almost an entire presidential briefing is taken up with the question of how many times a 26-year-old George W. Bush showed up in Alabama for National Guard duty more than 30 years ago.
ARL has provided information and assistance to research libraries in the United States and Canada since 1932. It regularly organizes educational symposiums for its members, briefing them on issues facing modern libraries while conducting massive national surveys of users.