Then: Afghanistan’s interim leader and later president elected after 9/11, managed to strike a delicate balancing act and remain on friendly terms with the United States and the West while uniting several factions in his country – At least for a time. Since then: Your test date has been postponed repeatedly. Under pressure – some called it torture – he confessed to being involved in nearly every major al Qaeda operation, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the assassination of journalist Daniel Pearl, the 2001 attacks, and others. He was captured by the CIA and Pakistani secret police in 2003, and was later taken to CIA prisons in Poland, Afghanistan and finally Guantanamo. Then: the prominent al Qaeda campaigner, described by the 9/11 Commission as “the main architect of the 9/11 attacks”. He is still a strong supporter of the presidency In 2020, his book “Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power” argued that Trump’s vision for the presidency was in line with Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton.
Since then: Yu is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Read Also: Members of Bay Area Store Stealing Millions Pled Guilty He argued that “enemy fighters” captured in Afghanistan do not need to have POW status that the President may authorize the warrantless wiretapping of US citizens on US soil That the use of “advanced interrogation techniques” such as water torture was within the power of the President in wartime. Then: As an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, Yu provided the legal basis for the War on Terror. His presence as a gospel singer (and songwriter-featured in his tune “Let the Eagle Soar,” “Let the Eagle Soar,” Bush’s second opening-) has waned. Since then: After stepping down in 2005, Ashcroft became a lobbyist and consultant. But in 2004, while in an intensive care unit with gallstone pancreatitis, he rejected the administration’s pleas to overturn the Justice Department’s decision that Bush’s national intelligence program was illegal. After September 11, he was the chief advocate for the administration of the Patriot Act, which gave the government broad powers to investigate and prosecute people suspected of terrorism. Then: Attorney General during Bush’s first term. In 2012, she became one of the first two women to join the Augusta National Golf Club. SINCE: Rice replaced Powell as secretary of state and then returned to Stanford University as chancellor and then a faculty member. The CIA reported that “there will be major terrorist attacks against the United States in the coming weeks or months.” Rice would later say that the information was out of date. In the summer of 2001, he met with CIA Director George Tenet, at his request, to discuss the threat of Al Qaeda attacks against American targets. He left the Republican Party after the attack on the Capitol on January 6.
But longtime Republicans did not believe Trump, endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016, and spoke out in support of Biden at the 2020 Democratic convention. Since then: Powell has consistently defended his support for the Iraq War. The war was fought, Saddam was overthrown and killed, Iraq was destabilized No such weapon was found. He then presented a persuasive case to the United Nations for military action against Iraq, claiming that Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction. Then: The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell was unanimously confirmed as Secretary of State in 2001. Since then: After five heart attacks and a heart transplant in 2012, Cheney has lived to see his daughter Liz win his old congressional seat in Wyoming and become a Republican personality non greta due to criticism of Donald Trump. The interrogation technique known as ‘waterboarding’ (water torture that causes the sensation of drowning) was an accurate way to obtain information from terrorists, he said – not torture, as his critics had long insisted. Cheney became a fierce advocate for an unbridled response to the attacks using “any means at our disposal.” He lobbied for the 2003 war in Iraq. THEN: While the Secret Service played “hide the president” with Bush on September 11 - fears of terrorist attacks moved him to military bases in Louisiana and Nebraska - his vice president settled in a “safe, undisclosed location.”, a bunker inside the White House where he helped direct government functions. Read Also: Ship's anchor could cause oil spill in Orange County