post-9/11 safety measures in, 67–68, 76
Presidential Emergency Operations Center of, 22, 25, 29–30, 47
suspicious Afghanistan call from, 118, 123
web site of, 155
White House Counsel’s Office, 57, 81
attorney-client privilege of, 227
in military commissions study, 122
see also Berenson, Bradford; Flanigan, Tim; Gonzales, Alberto
White House press corps, 40
Wilkinson, J. Harvis, III, 316, 317, 409
Wilner, Tom, 311–12, 318, 319, 335–36
Wings of Hope, 505
Wirts, Chris, 376
Witsch, Joseph, 375–76, 473–74
Wolf, John, 476
Wolfowitz, Paul, 1, 89, 449, 506
in detention center discussion, 195, 196
and elderly detainee release, 336
in Guantanamo interrogation program discussions, 237, 238, 427–28, 435
on Iraq’s al-Qaeda connection, 343, 344
in military commissions hearing, 181–82
in Padilla case, 306, 308
Woodward, Bob, 526
World Bank, 506
World Trade Center:
attack on, 21, 23, 24
collapse of, 28, 29, 39, 51
1993 attack on, 63, 529
see also Ground Zero; September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
World War II, 411
Geneva Conventions in, 186
military tribunal in, 84; see also Ex Parte Quirin
Wright, Bob, 128
Wright, Lawrence, 526
Y
Yemen, 51, 361, 439, 546
al-Qaeda plot in, 208
counterterrorist intelligence from, 98
Yoo, John, 123, 506–7
and CIA interrogation policy, 280, 281–82, 283, 299–300, 333–34, 562
in congressional resolution drafting, 61, 65, 66–67
in detainee treatment policy formation, 187, 188, 213, 214, 215, 217, 219–20, 224, 506
enemy combatants analysis of, 48
Geneva Conventions analysis of, 48, 187, 188, 213, 214, 215, 217, 219, 220, 224, 226
in Hamdi case, 259, 302, 303–4, 309
legal expertise of, 38
in military commissions formation, 144–45, 148
and military interrogation policy, 455–57, 463, 464–66, 474, 475–76, 485, 486
on 9/11, 38, 46, 47–48
Posse Comitatus interpretation by, 139–40
presidential authority analysis of, 38, 47–48, 464, 476, 506, 507
in surveillance powers expansion, 141–42
Yousef, Ramzi, 63
YouTube, 515
Z
Zaki, Sherif, 107, 108
Zaman Ghun Shareef, Mohammed, 162, 178–79, 180
Zawahiri, Ayman al-, 6, 243, 546, 548–49, 550–51
Ziglar, James, 372
Zinni, Anthony, 261
Zubair (al-Qaeda terrorist), 492
Zubaydah, Abu, see Abu Zubaydah
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500 days : secrets and lies in the terror wars / by Kurt Eichenwald.
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