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| News Date | Friday, April 9, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Condi never expressed remorse during her 9/11 testimony. And Bush can’t bring himself to admit he was wrong about Iraq. Welcome to a quagmire
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Eleanor Clift
Newsweek
Updated: 2:31 p.m. ET April 09, 2004
April 9 - It would have been nice to hear an apology or even some remorse from Condoleezza Rice. But that’s not this administration’s style. She stuck to the party line that President Bush did all he could before 9/11, a position that is not supported by the facts.
Rice appeared rattled when Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste confronted her with the title of the presidential daily briefing (PDB) forwarded to Bush at his Crawford ranch on Aug. 6, 2001: “Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States.” Rice called it “historical information based on old reporting” that did not warn of new attacks. Ben-Veniste countered that it established a pattern of suspicious activities and challenged the administration to declassify the memo so the American people could decided its relevance for themselves.
The exchange is reminiscent of the country music song “My Lyin’ Eyes,” where the cuckolded husband has to decide whether he believes what he sees or what he’s being told. Even if the memo is a rundown of bin Laden’s greatest hits, it arrived in the midst of a summer when terror czar Richard Clarke and others in the intelligence community were warning the White House something big was about to happen. Even if Rice’s explanation is legitimate, keeping the memo from the public and the press gives the impression the administration is hiding something. |
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