Today's Daily Mislead: Condoleezza

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April 8, 2004 | Daily Mislead Archive
Rice Yet to Answer For Two Dishonest Statements


As Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 Commission approaches, she continues to push two distinctly dishonest statements in an effort to blur President Bush's failure to defend America in 2001.

First and foremost, Rice continues to make the now-discredited claim that the White House did not have intelligence warning them that terrorists were plotting to use airplanes as missiles in an attack on America. In 2002 she said, "I don't think anybody could have predicted that ... they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile"1. She said this in spite of the intelligence community having issued 12 separate warnings of such a plan, including a 1999 warning saying that "suicide bomber(s) belonging to al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft...into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House"2. When presented with these facts, she told the 9/11 Commission in January 2004 that she misspoke and that she "regretted" her earlier denials3. Yet less than four months after her apology, she made the same false claim, writing in a March 22, 2004 op-ed in the Washington Post that "we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles"4.

Secondly, Rice is now saying through spokesmen that she was "not briefed" about terrorists' plans to use airplanes as missiles before 2002, when she began making the false claim that she had no such warnings5. But even if Rice did neglect all 12 previous intelligence reports, she cannot claim she was never briefed about such a threat, considering she was the top national security official accompanying President Bush to the G-8 Summit in Genoa, Italy in July 2001. There, she and the president were explicitly warned that "Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill world leaders by crashing an airliner" into the summit6.

[papau]

1. tonight we find out just how bought and paid for the network media is

how much truth will they let out - if any

:-)

The source for your thread - just in case any media feels brave:
1. National Security Advisor Holds Press Briefing, 05/16/2002,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=27236.
2. "Report Warned Of Suicide Hijackings", CBS News, 05/17/2002,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=27237.
3. "As Rice Testimony Nears, Tone Remains a Question", New York Times,
04/07/2004, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=27238.
4. "9/11: For The Record", Washington Post, 03/22/2004,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=27239.
5. "As Rice Testimony Nears, Tone Remains a Question", New York Times,
04/07/2004, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=27238.
6. "Italy Tells of Threat at Genoa Summit", Los Angeles Times, 09/27/2001,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=27240.