WP Rice Defends Bush Efforts to Combat Terrorism,Preparations Insufficient

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60511-2004Apr8.html

Rice Defends Bush Efforts to Combat Terrorism
National Security Adviser Acknowledges Preparations Were Insufficient

By William Branigin and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, April 8, 2004; 1:45 PM


Some of the most contentious exchanges came over an Aug. 6, 2001, "presidential daily brief," a still-classified document that Rice confirmed under questioning had as its title, "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States."

Rice insisted that the document contained "historical information" and "did not in fact warn of any coming attacks inside the United States."

In one of the more contentious exchanges, Rice and commission member Bob Kerrey, a former Democratic senator and governor of Nebraska, repeatedly interrupted each other as Kerrey tried to elicit answers on why the Bush administration did not respond to the suicide bomb attack in Yemen on the USS Cole in October 2000 and take action in response to a Jan 25, 2001, memo from counterterrorism adviser Richard A. Clarke on ways to deal with the al Qaeda threat.

"We were not presented with a plan," Rice said.

"That's not true," Kerrey interjected. As Rice launched into a lengthy explanation, he added, "Please don't filibuster me. That's not fair."

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1. The PDB Title IS A FUCKING WARNING IN AND OF ITSELF!!!

Smoking Gun...Let's see the memo and let the public decide how "historical" it was...

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2. it's great that the Washington Post is covering this aspect...

bush* regime is really falling apart...the LIES are piling up...they are blaming each other, and bush* own insiders are turning against him...more and more, it's becoming apparent that BUSH KNEW, and did nothing....

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3. The First Two Lines of that Article Are DAMNING!!

I mean fer crying out loud...They print the title of the memo which is clearly a WARNING about upcoming attacks in the US and then they print Condi's claim that the memo had no warnings!!! It doesn't get more Orwellian than that...