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Cambone's 9/11 Notes Released Via FOIA

Friday, February 24, 2006 at 12:53 PM EST

DoD Staffer's Notes from 9/11 Obtained Under FOIA

DoD staffer's notes from 9/11 - 2:40 PM

Originally uploaded by thadanderson. On July 23, 2005, I submitted an
electronic Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of
Defense seeking DoD staffer Stephen Cambone's notes from meetings with
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the afternoon of September 11,
2001. Cambone's notes were cited heavily in the 9/11 Commission Report's
reconstruction of the day's events. On February 10, 2006, I received a
response from the DoD which includes partially-redacted copies of
Cambone's notes. The documents can be viewed as a photo set on Flickr.

The released notes document Donald Rumsfeld's 2:40 PM instructions to
General Myers to find the "[b]est info fast . . . judge whether good
enough [to] hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] at same time - not only UBL [Usama
Bin Laden]" (as discussed on p. 334-335 of the 9/11 Commission Report
and in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack).

In addition, the documents confirm the contents of CBS News' Sept. 4,
2002 report "Plans For Iraq Attack Began on 9/11," which quoted
Rumsfeld's notes as stating: "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things
related and not." These lines were not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission
Report or Woodward's Plan of Attack, and to my knowledge, have not been
independently confirmed by any other source. After the Rathergate
fiasco, I wondered if CBS had been fooled into publishing a story that,
from a publicity perspective, seemed too good to be true.

Finally, these documents unveil a previously undisclosed part of the
2:40 PM discussion. Several lines below the "judge whether good enough
[to] hit S.H. at same time" line, Cambone's notes from the conversation
read: "Hard to get a good case."

In addition to being available as a photo set on Flickr, you can
download the documents in PDF format below. BitTorrent users can also
download a 6.9 MB zip file containing PDFs of all the documents.
[Torrent / Prodigem torrent details page]

Notes from 12:05 PM meeting [PDF]
Notes from 12:05 PM meeting (negative) [PDF]
Notes from 2:40 PM meeting [PDF]
Notes from 2:40 PM meeting (negative) [PDF]
Notes from 9:53 PM meeting [PDF]
Notes from 9:53 PM meeting (negative) [PDF]
DoD's FOIA release letter [PDF]
Raw scan of page 3 of notes [PDF]
Raw scan of page 5 of notes [PDF]
Raw scan of page 6 of notes [PDF]
Raw scan of page 9 of notes [PDF]

(Edited on 2/19/06 to include BitTorrent link, and on 2/23/06 to correct
a typo and add another link to the Flickr photo set.).

http://www.outragedmoderates.org/2006/02/dod-staffers-notes-from-911-obtained.html