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To: Sam who wrote (70813)	6/4/2008 11:49:37 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543022

You don't even have to go to the library--I just discovered the timeline is online. Here is the link: frankrich.com Here is Rich's introductory description of it: In the months after 9/11, the Bush administration resisted calls for an official investigation into the missteps, intelligence failures, and general haplessness that had led to the attacks. Thanks to the persistence of the victims’ families, we now have the 9/11 Commission’s definitive history -- down to the minute -- of how we arrived at that Tuesday in September 2001. We do not yet have an official accounting of what happened after. The pair of time lines in the book is an attempt to map the rollout of the administration’s false intelligence claims about Iraq, as typified by that mythical uranium from Africa at the center of the Valerie Plame Wilson case, and to contrast that often-fictional narrative with the contradictory intelligence that the White House failed to divulge to the public as it told and sold its story. As Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation began to prompt revelations about a desperate administration’s efforts to salvage its flawed case for war, the gap between these two narrative tracks became more and more visible -- and continues to widen with each new revelation of accurate intelligence that the administration either suppressed or ignored. NOTE ON THE TYPE Entries in italics in the right-hand column chronicle the story that was sold by the Bush administration and other relevant events, news reports, or official statements that were known publicly at the time. Entries in roman type in the shaded left-hand column chronicle what the administration was learning behind the scenes about intelligence and other war-related matters—and not telling the public. The events in this hidden time line were revealed publicly only later; citations note the dates and sources of each revelation. Footnotes beginning "*See entry..." allow the reader to locate the dates in the time lines when the administration received information that contradicted its public statements. In footnotes, roman dates refer to the behind-the-scenes (roman) column; italic dates refer to the public (italic) column.