Rice Rebuts Tenet’s Assertion That ’01 Warning Was Ignored

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April 30, 2007
Rice Rebuts Tenet’s Assertion That ’01 Warning Was Ignored
By BRIAN KNOWLTON

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/washington/30tenet.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON, April 29 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended herself on Sunday against the assertion by the former C.I.A. director, George J. Tenet, that she had dismissed his warnings in July 2001 of possible terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda.

In his new book, “At the Center of the Storm,” to be published on Monday, Mr. Tenet wrote that there had been no “serious debate” within the Bush administration about whether Iraq posed an imminent threat or on how a long American military presence in Iraq might play out; and that his early efforts to warn Ms. Rice and others of Al Qaeda’s threats were treated too lightly.

Ms. Rice, who appeared on several Sunday television talk shows, said on the CBS News program “Face the Nation” that the administration had tried many ways to deal with Iraq, over “an extended period of time,” including efforts to tighten international sanctions.

In an excerpt from a taped CBS interview, broadcast on the program “60 Minutes” Sunday, Mr. Tenet said that in a briefing he had urgently requested with Ms. Rice in July 2001, he said words to this effect: “There are going to be multiple, spectacular attacks against the United States. We believe these attacks are imminent. Mass casualties are likely.”

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1. bin laden wants to fly airplanes into tall buildings

what ever came of that.....forgive me for mentioning it, but didn't they FLY AIRPLANES INTO THE TWIN TOWERS....so she didn't ignore it. Then what did she do? After all she was the security adviser at that time.

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2. The piece should have been titled "Rice ATTEMPTS to rebut Tenet's assertion".

Her feeble bullshit attempts to deflect blame are incredibly lame.