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In response to the September 11, 2001 attacks, United States President George W. Bush created a War Cabinet. They met at Camp David on the weekend of September 15 to shape what became the War on Terrorism. The membership was mostly, but not entirely, identical to that of the United States National Security Council.
The Cabinet comprised
- President - George W. Bush
- Vice President - Dick Cheney
- Defense Secretary - Donald Rumsfeld
- Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) - Condoleezza Rice
- Secretary of State - Colin Powell
- Director of Central Intelligence - George Tenet
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - Hugh Shelton
- Attorney General - John Ashcroft
- Secretary of the Treasury - Paul O'Neill
- Counselor to the President - Karen Hughes
- White House Press Secretary - Ari Fleischer
- Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Robert Mueller
- Deputy Defense Secretary - Paul Wolfowitz
- White House Chief of Staff - Andrew Card
During the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, President John F. Kennedy's EXCOMM had some characteristics of a War Cabinet.
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