Andrew Card served as White House Chief of Staff from 2001 to 2006, working alongside Vice President Cheney through the most consequential events of the Bush presidency including 9/11 and the Iraq War. Card is famous for whispering America is under attack to President Bush at the Booker Elementary School on September 11, 2001. In March 2004, Card and Alberto Gonzales went to John Ashcroft hospital room at Cheney direction to seek reauthorization of the warrantless surveillance program.

Andrew Card served as White House Chief of Staff during Rice's entire tenure as National Security Advisor (2001-2005). Card chaired the White House Iraq Group (WHIG), the marketing body that coordinated the public case for invading Iraq, of which Rice was a member. Card famously said of the September 2002 WHIG messaging blitz: 'From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August' — explaining why the Iraq War campaign launched in September. He is also remembered for whispering 'America is under attack' to President Bush at the Sarasota elementary school on September 11, 2001.

Andrew Card set up the WHIG with Karl Rove in August 2002. Card made the infamous comment that 'From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August,' explaining why the administration launched its Iraq campaign in September 2002 with the Miller-Gordon aluminum tubes story.