Oh DEAR GOD NO, you mean Condi's been LYING her ass off about 9/11? OH NO!

[Human Torch]

State of Denial: Two months before 9/11, Rice gave the 'brush-off' to 'impending terrorist attack' warning



Ron Brynaert
Published: Saturday September 30, 2006

(Update: Former Counsel to the 9/11 Commission suggests that "ery possibly, someone committed a crime" by engaging in a "cover-up" of the warning)

According to a new book written by Washington Post investigative reporter Bob Woodward, two months before the September 11 attacks, then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice gave the "brush-off" to an "impending terrorist attack" warning by former C.I.A. director George J. Tenet and his counterterrorism coordinator.

An article in Friday's New York Times first mentioned the warning, and a front page book review of Woodward's State of Denial in Saturday's edition provides more details.

"On July 10, 2001, the book says, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, met with Ms. Rice at the White House to impress upon her the seriousness of the intelligence the agency was collecting about an impending attack," David E. Sanger reported on Friday. "But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. Rice had not taken the warnings seriously."

Sanger also reported that Tenet told Woodward that before 9/11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was "impeding" efforts to catch Osama bin Laden.

MORE:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/State_of_Denial_Two_months_before_0930.html

[Cocoa]

1. please refrain from impugning her integrity

:rofl:

[JohnyCanuck]

2. Looks like Rummie was worried they

might not have their New Pearl Harbor if the chief patsie was behind bars or 6ft under.

Sanger also reported that Tenet told Woodward that before 9/11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was "impeding" efforts to catch Osama bin Laden.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Could she have perjured herself?

That'd be a serious crime.

[Human Torch]

5. Was she actually "under oath" when she testified?

I know Junior and Evil Dick sidestepped that one, but I'm not sure about Condi.

[skids]

6. It doesn't seem to matter.

These days, lying to congress seems to carry no penalties whatsoever. They are on the books, but enforcement? Hah!

[MannyGoldstein]

7. She Was.

I'm pretty sure that she was under oath - I recall that the 9/11 folks insisted on this.

[Human Torch]

8. That was my recollection...Bush & Cheney avoided it, she didn't.

...but since the lies are so widespread across the administration, it's all relative...

:patriot:

[lovuian]

10. and she didn't want to be yelling "Historical documents"

double speek

[petgoat]

13. Condi was under oath when she lied to the 9/11 widows and said

the August 6 "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in US" memo did not
warn of new attacks.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/rice.transcript/

[calimary]

21. Yes. They swore her in. I remember that image of contradicta

holding her hand up and swearing to tell the truth.

I wonder if her toes were crossed under the desk.

That's all she seems able to do with any ease - LIE. LIE, LIE, and LIE some more.

[MadMaddie]

15. If I remember correctly none of them were sworn in....

remember there was some controversy over that fact but it went away...

[Rageneau]

4. But nobody could have foreseen terrorists flying planes into buildings

Sure, maybe Condi knew the terrorists wanted to attack us, but who could expect her to do anything about it? After all, there were thousands of ways the terrorists could have struck us. Condi couldn't prevent ALL of them, could she? So why bother to try to prevent any at all.

This is all a bunch of liberal character assassination designed to take attention away from Clinton's crimes with Charlie Trie and the Arlington Greavegate scandal.

[Imagevision]

9. Rice clearly failed her NSA position badly, many words with little content

[Pachamama]

11. Now we know why Bush Co. was so ueber-happy to give Tenet the Medal of

"You Now Shut the F*ck up and be a good Boy" Medal from the President....

:eyes:

[Hissyspit]

12. Many Americans still don't realize that she lies as much as Rumsfeld.

Which means almost EVERY word she says.

[cosmicdot]

14. not condiLIAR 'don't you impugn my integrity' rice !?!

Rice to Sen. Boxer during Secretary of State confirmation hearings:

"But I really hope that you will refrain from impugning my integrity."

She can't even tell the truth about herself.


Transcript of remarks between Boxer and Rice

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/18/RICEBOXER.DTL&type=printable

[tblue]

16. The devil wears Ferragamo!

When is she ever NOT lying?

[driver8]

17. I think that Condi must be a very intelligent woman. Why??

Because no one could be that fucking stupid.

[indepat]

18. If true, the term despicable comes to mind

[leesa]

19. How else could they have pulled off their post9-11 coup?

Of course she lied. 9-11 was meant to go forward. It was part of their plan.

[kentuck]

20. Why not ask Tenet or Cofer ??

Did they die?