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1 I N EARLY J ANUARY 2001, before George W. Bush was inaugurated, Vice President–elect Dick Cheney p
2 T HE S EPTEMBER 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington that killed nearly 3,000 al
3 A FTER F RANKS’S MINI-EXPLOSION on November 21 when he had gotten word that Rumsfeld wanted a comm
4 I N LATE N OVEMBER , the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, passed on to Washington the res
5 T HE MORNING OF F RIDAY , December 28, the president rose at 5 A.M. at his Crawford, Texas, ranch
6 B Y THE BEGINNING OF 2002, CIA Director George Tenet’s stock with the president was way up. His co
7 A FTER THE D ECEMBER 28 Crawford briefing for the president, Rumsfeld ordered Franks to come back
8 S ITTING IN HIS SMALL West Wing office with a structural pillar squarely in the middle, presidenti
9 R UMSFELD WASN’T WASTING TIME . On Friday, February 1, three days after the State of the Union spe
10 T ERRORISM, ESPECIALLY AL Q AEDA , was still the center of Tenet’s universe—issues 1, 2, 3, 4 and
11 I N M ARCH , Tenet met secretly with two individuals who would be critical to covert action insid
12 “S TOP BOTHERING ME !” the president said to Karl Rove that Saturday, May 11. Rove had alerted hi
13 W ITH THE PRESIDENTIAL finding authorizing covert action and allocation of the money, Tenet was r
14 A T 4:30 P.M. on Monday, August 5, Franks, carrying 110 slides of Top Secret/Polo Step war planni
15 O N W EDNESDAY , A UGUST 14, Rice chaired a principals meeting without the president, who was in
16 T HE PRESIDENT RETURNED from Crawford to the White House on Sunday, September 1. An unhappy Powel
17 S PEECHWRITER M IKE G ERSON probed the president about precisely what he wanted to say to the U.N
18 S IX MONTHS EARLIER , on May 9, 2002, I had dinner with Senator Bob Graham, the Florida Democrat
19 R UMSFELD KEPT HONING the details of the war plan, pushing the Hybrid Plan closer and closer to s
20 T HE TELEVISION MONITOR had a small but highly unusual warning in the corner of the screen: TOP S
21 P OWELL REALIZED THAT HE , the president and perhaps the rest of the world were traveling a road
22 O N F RIDAY , N OVEMBER 15, the Saudi ambassador, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, came to the Oval Offi
23 R UMSFELD’S STRATEGY OF DRIBBLING out force deployments was working, generating small news accoun
24 R ICE WENT TO HER AUNT’S for Christmas, then to the president’s ranch in Crawford, the barren Tex
25 F ROM THEIR ALMOST daily conversations, Cheney had come to realize that the president had made hi
26 B EFORE A MEETING with Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski the next day, the morning of Tuesd
27 A T THE S TATE D EPARTMENT , Armitage received a call from the White House communications office
28 A T A PRIVATE MEETING with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on January 30, the president
29 O N W EDNESDAY , February 5, just after 7 A.M. , several hours before Powell’s U.N. presentation
30 F EBRUARY 15 HAD BEEN A potential start day for war if the inspections had gone according to plan
31 “L OOKS REALLY GOOD . This is going to happen,” Saul once again reported to Tim at Kalachualan ba
32 W HEN THE PRESIDENT met with Irish Prime Minister Bernie Ahern the morning of Thursday, March 13,
33 A NDY C ARD HAD SUGGESTED that the Bush, Blair and Aznar mini-summit be held in Bermuda. But that
34 I N W ASHINGTON THE NEXT DAY , Monday, March 17, Rice was on the phone to the national security a
35 B USH BEGAN BUSINESS on Wednesday, March 19, at 7:40 A.M. with a 20-minute call to Blair on the s
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