by Leon Panetta
9.“President’s News Conference,” June 29, 1990, ibid., http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=18650&st=&st1=.
Chapter 6: “It’s the Right Fight”
1.Historical polling data for American presidents is available through the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Presidential job approval is searchable at http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/popularity.php#axzz2grexm2Dd.
2.Joe Klein, The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton (New York: Doubleday, 2002), 93.
3.New York Times, December 6, 1992.
4.Bob Woodward, The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), Kindle edition, location 1302.
5.Bill Clinton, My Life (New York: Knopf, 2004), 461.
6.Los Angeles Times, February 17, 1993.
7.Ibid., February 21, 1993.
8.Washington Post, February 19, 1993.
9.New York Times, February 20, 1993.
10.Washington Post, February 19, 1993.
11.Ibid.
12.Ibid., April 27, 1993.
13.Associated Press, April 28, 1993.
14.Clinton, My Life, 525.
Chapter 7: “If the White House Is Falling Apart . . .”
1.Ira Magaziner records, Box 9, Scheduling, Clinton Presidential Library.
2.Chicago Tribune, December 19, 1993.
3.New York Times, September 14, 1993.
4.Ibid., November 18, 1993.
5.Stuart M. Butler, “Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans,” the Heritage Lectures, October 2, 1989. Available at http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/1989/pdf/hl218.pdf.
6.The original Heritage Foundation proposal can be found in its entirety in ibid. The foundation’s later disavowal of that analysis, once it was offered in defense of President Obama’s plan, can be found at “Brief of Amicus Curiae the Heritage Foundation in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees,” United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, May 11, 2011, http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/Heritage-Foundation-Amicus-Brief-05-11-11.pdf.
7.Monterey Peninsula Herald, September 5, 1995.
8.FBI Uniform Crime Reports, 1995, 5. Available at http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/1995/95sec2.pdf.
9.FBI Uniform Crime Reports, 2000, 5. Available at http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2000/00sec2.pdf.
10.Haiti Background, United Nations Mission in Haiti paper. UN Security Council, Resolution 940 (1994) Adopted by the Security Council at Its 3413th Meeting, on 31 July 1994, 31 July 1994, S/RES/940 (1994), available at http://www.refworld.org/docic/3b00f15f63.html.
11.Bill Clinton, My Life (New York: Knopf, 2004), 628.
12.Ibid.
13.New York Times, November 10, 1994.
Chapter 8: “We Thought You Would Cave”
1.McClatchy News Service, December 6, 1994.
2.Bill Clinton, My Life (New York: Knopf, 2004), 644.
3.Washington Post, February 12, 1995.
4.“Letter to Congressional Leaders on the Plan to Balance the Budget,” June 28, 1995. Courtesy of the American Presidency Project.
5.“Remarks Prior to Meeting with Congressional Leaders and Exchange with Reporters,” July 11, 1995. Courtesy of the American Presidency Project.
6.“Statement on Proposed Foreign Affairs Legislation,” July 26, 1995. Courtesy of the American Presidency Project.
7.“Weekly Radio Address,” July 29, 1995. Courtesy of the American Presidency Project.
8.Clinton, My Life, 679.
9.Clinton T. Bass, “Shutdown of the Federal Government: Causes, Processes and Effects,” Congressional Research Service, September 25, 2013, 16–17.
10.Alec Tyson, “The Last Government Shutdown and Now: A Different Environment,” Pew Research Center, September 30, 2013, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/30/the-last-government-shutdown-and-now-a-different-environment/.
11.Baltimore Sun, November 16, 1995.
12.New York Daily News, November 16, 1995.
13.Budget Planning memo, November 30, 1995, Carolyn Curiel Records, Box 2, Budget [1] folder, Clinton Presidential Library.
14.A copy of the report is available online at http://www.climateactionproject.com/docs/POC_Exec_Summary.pdf.
15.The Iraq Study Group Report (New York: Vintage, 2006), “Letter from the Co-Chairs,” ix. Available at http://history-world.org/061206_iraq_study_group_report.pdf.
Chapter 9: “The Combatant Commander in the War on Terrorism”
1.Washington Post, January 5, 2009.
2.Some of those concerns made it into the press. See, for instance, New York Times, December 3, 2008.
3.Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), 59.
4.Hearings Before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate, February 5 and 6, 2009, 9 (from my opening statement), http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs/111172.pdf.
5.Ibid., 19.
6.Ibid., 12 (in response to a question from Chairman Feinstein).
7.CNN.com, February 11, 2009.
Chapter 10: “Tell It Like It Is . . . Our National Security Depends on It”
1.U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, Memorandum for John A. Rizzo, Senior Deputy General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency, May 10, 2005.
2.“Remarks at the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, Virginia,” April 20, 2009. Courtesy of the American Presidency Project.
3.Rodriguez makes this case in his Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012).
Chapter 11: “Disrupt, Dismantle, Defeat”
1.Central Intelligence Agency, “The Work of a Nation,” https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/the-work-of-a-nation/cia-director-and-principles/centers-in-the-cia.html.
2.Raffaelo Pantucci, “A Biography of Rashid Rauf: Al-Qa’ida’s British Operative,” Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. Rauf also helped plan the July 7, 2005, attacks on London’s public transportation system in which fifty-two people died.
3.Saudi Gazette, undated article, “Fourth Assassination Attempt Against Prince Foiled.” Other details from BBC, “Profile: Al Qaeda Bomb Maker Ibrahim al-Asiri,” May 9, 2012.
4.Final Report of the William H. Webster Commission on the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Counterterrorism Intelligence and the Events at Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009, 35.
5.Rob Wise, “Al Shabaab,” Center for Strategic International Studies, July 2011.
6.U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, Press Release, September 24, 2009. Available at http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/September/09-ag-1017.html.
7.This debate is well captured by Bob Woodward in Obama’s Wars.
8.Ibid., 194. Also Los Angeles Times, October 6, 2009.
9.“Remarks at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York,” December 1, 2009. Courtesy of the American Presidency Project.
10.Daniel Klaidman, Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), 173.
11.New York Times, December 30, 2009.
12.Mike Allen, “Dick Cheney: Barack Obama ‘Trying to Pretend,’” Politico, December 30, 2009.
13.“Remarks at a Memorial Service for Central Intelligence Agency Officers in Langley, Virginia,” February 5, 2010. Courtesy of the American Presidency Project.
14.Al Baker and William K. Rashbaum, “Police Find Car Bomb in Times Square,” New York Times, May 1, 2010.
15.Press release, United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, “Faisal Shahzad Sentenced in Manhatta
n Federal Court to Life in Prison for Attempted Car Bombing in Times Square,” October 5, 2010.
Chapter 12: “Everywhere in the World”
1.Washington Post, December 22, 1963.
2.Nicholas Cullather, “Operation PBSUCCESS: The United States and Guatemala, 1952–1954,” History staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1994.
Chapter 13: “Go In and Get Bin Laden”
1.“Bush Tells Barnes Capturing Bin Laden Is ‘Not a Top Priority Use of American Resources,’” Fox News, September 14, 2006.
2.The debate transcript is available at http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/debates/transcripts/second-presidential-debate.html.
3.“Remarks on the Death of Al Qaeda Terrorist Organization Leader Osama bin Laden,” May 1, 2011. Courtesy of the American Presidency Project.
Chapter 14: “To Be Free, We Must Also Be Secure”
1.Congressional Record, Senate, June 21, 2011, S3960.
2.Ibid.
3.Congressional Research Service, “A Guide to U.S. Military Casualty Statistics: Operation New Dawn, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom,” February 19, 2014. See also http://icasualties.org/, which continues to track casualties in Afghanistan.
4.Washington Post, April 16, 2012.
5.New York Times, July 12, 2011.
6.Ibid., August 6, 2011.
Chapter 15: “A New Defense Strategy for the Twenty-first Century”
1.Bill Clinton, My Life (New York: Knopf, 2004), 483.
2.Ibid.
3.Department of Defense, Report of the Comprehensive Review of the Issues Associated with a Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” November 30, 2012, 82.
4.Ibid.
5.Washington Post, January 7, 2013.
6.BBC, “Pakistan ‘Backed Haqqani Attack on Kabul’—Mike Mullen,” September 22, 2011.
7.New York Times, March 9, 2013.
8.See Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta, filed July 18, 2012, in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
9.“Address to the Nation on the End of Combat Operations in Iraq,” August 31, 2010. Courtesy of the American Presidency Project.
10.New York Times, December 14, 2011.
11.Barack Obama, “Remarks at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia,” January 5, 2012. Courtesy of the American Presidency Project.
Chapter 16: “In Together, Out Together”
1.Jessica Buchanan and Erik Landemalm, Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six (New York: Atria Books, 2013), 261–68.
2.Washington Post, February 2, 2012.
3.“Remarks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference,” March 4, 2012. Courtesy of the American Presidency Project.
4.New York Times, March 4, 2012.
5.Ibid., August 20, 2013.
6.Ibid., February 25, 2012.
7.Ibid., March 15, 2012.
8.Interview with Al Hurra Television, March 16, 2012. Courtesy of the Department of Defense, Press Operations, News Transcript.
9.American Forces Press Service, April 18, 2012.
10.“Barack Obama, Remarks with President Hamid Karzai,” May 2, 2012. Courtesy of the American Presidency Project.
11.Stars and Stripes, June 4, 2012.
12.Associated Press, cited on Fox News Web site, April 10, 2014, http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/10/gop-chairman-satisfied-with-military-response-to-benghazi-attack/.
Chapter 17: “I Cannot Imagine the Pain”
1.National Public Radio, September 18, 2012.
2.CBS News, September 18, 2012.
3.“United Nations Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic,” transmitted September 13, 2013. The full report can be found at http://www.un.org/disarmament/content/slideshow/Secretary_General_Report_of_CW_Investigation.pdf. See also “Government Assessment of the Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013,” released by the White House on August 30, 2013.
4.Department of Defense, Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, Fiscal Year 2012, 4.
5.USA Today, January 24, 2013.
INDEX
The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable.
Abbottabad Compound 1 (AC1), 294–300, 306–9, 310–27, 333, 335–37
COAs for raiding, 299–300, 307–10, 338–39
Abdullah II, King of Jordan, 362, 412
Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk, 257–60, 386
abortion, 86, 156
Adams, Sherman, 139
Afghan Interior Ministry, 409
Afghanistan, 235, 238, 255, 300, 336, 353, 391, 408, 427, 438, 439–40, 460
aid to, 287
Al Qaeda in, 241, 242, 245, 250–53, 254–57, 268, 285–86, 288, 290, 293–94, 394, 397, 418
Army losses in war in, 347
assassination of CIA officers in, 1–2
attack on Abbottabad launched from, 311, 316, 321, 325, 335
Bales atrocity in, 408–11, 414
bin Laden in, 289
covert actions in, 338
force reduction in, 344, 352, 354, 400
Haqqani network in, 241, 286, 378–79
ISAF in, 379–80
Kunar Province of, 289
Panetta in, 271n, 354–56, 397–98
surge in, 252–56, 284–88, 334, 344, 370, 414
Taliban in, 251, 254–55, 285–86, 397, 417
U.S. helicopter shot down in, 357–58, 369–70
war in, 1, 189–90, 199, 250–56, 290, 337, 338, 346, 349, 352, 369–70, 371, 377, 382, 383, 403, 408–10, 419
withdrawal from, 413–19, 456
Afghanistan-Pakistan border, 240, 242, 271n, 285, 289, 290–91, 311, 312
Afghan National Security Forces, 411
African-Americans, 36–37, 144
agricultural price subsidies, 76, 110, 176
Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 177–78
Aiken, George, 27
AIPAC, 406–8
Air Force, U.S., 209, 346, 368
sexual assault in, 453
strike adviser provided by, 342
Air Force One, 133, 135
Alberto, David, 16
Alexander, Keith, 433
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, bombing of, 152, 160–62, 173–74
Algeria, 301
Al Hurra Television, 412
Allen, John, 317, 336, 397, 409, 414–15, 427, 439–40
Allen, Michael, 298
allies, security cooperation with, 349
Al Qaeda, 239–50, 258–69, 271n, 273, 290, 292, 306, 314, 330, 338, 349, 396–97, 400, 408, 415, 455
in Afghanistan, 241, 242, 245, 250–53, 254–57, 269, 285–86, 288, 290, 293, 394, 418
Awlaki in, 385–87
CIA in search for, 1–2, 205, 217–23, 228, 238
driven out of Saudi Arabia, 243–44
drones targeting leaders of, 386, 387–88
evolution of, 241
Guantánamo imprisonment and, 339
in Iraq, 249, 394, 399
ISIS as offshoot of, 394
in Pakistan, 241, 242, 245, 260–61, 268, 378, 394
Times Square attack and, 267
in Yemen, 244–45, 257, 260
Al Shabaab, 245, 246, 396
alternative energy, 108
Altman, Roger, 104, 117
American Airlines Flight 77, 360
American Ci
vil Liberties Union (ACLU), 215, 387
AmeriCorps, 162
Ames, Aldrich, 278
Amos, Jim, 346, 367–68
Amsterdam, 258
Amy (analyst), 210, 211
Anderson, Richard and Judy, 128
Andrus, Cecil, 68, 70
Angell, John, 137, 138
Appalachia, poverty in, 75
Arabian Gulf, 435
Arab League, 448
Arab Spring, 301, 303, 310, 381, 399, 447
Arafat, Yasser, 167, 302
Arbenz, Jacobo, 276
Argentina, 277
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 146
Arlington National Cemetery, 1–2, 71, 268, 419
Armey, Dick, 115, 168–69
arms control, 166
Army, U.S., 161, 346–47, 368
Criminal Investigation Command of, 410
Panetta in, 3, 20–22, 293
reduction in size of, 384–85
Army Commendation Medal, 21
Army Corps of Engineers, 438
ASEAN defense ministers, 395
Asia, rebalancing of forces toward, 383, 384–85, 394, 434, 446
Asiri, Abdullah al-, 243–44, 245, 260
Assad, Bashar al-, 447–51
assault weapons ban, 143
Austere Challenge 12, 405
Austin, Lloyd, 356
Australia, 423, 439
Awlaki, Anwar al-, 244–45, 257, 260, 266–67, 385–87
Axelrod, David, 232
B-2 Stealth bombers, 308, 312
Babbit, Bruce, 145
Baghdad, 185
Baghdad International Airport, 398
Bahrain, 362
Bakalian, John, 55
Baker, James, 138–39, 185
Balawi, Humam al-, 260–63, 265
Bales, Robert, 408–9, 410–11
Balestreri, Ted, 302, 328
Bandar Abbas, 435
banks, state-chartered, 110
Barak, Ehud, 361–62, 403–6, 412, 422, 424–26
Bash, Jeremy:
at CIA, 197–98, 201, 204, 207, 211, 212, 214, 217, 225–26, 237–38, 248, 249–50, 257, 258, 262, 281, 297, 313–14, 317, 325, 327, 329, 333, 337, 345
at Defense, 348, 353, 357, 363, 380, 406, 411, 413, 424, 429, 438, 459
Batten, Jim, 39
Beame, Abe, 47
