Condi wants another private meeting with 911ers

[swag]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4601195/

MSNBC and NBC News
Updated: 5:25 p.m. ET March 25, 2004WASHINGTON - Richard Clarke’s testimony to the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was considered so damaging that national security adviser Condoleezza Rice planned to ask the panel for a private interview to answer his allegations, a senior White House official told NBC News on Thursday.

During his appearance before the committee Wednesday, Clarke, the former counterterrorism coordinator in the Bush and Clinton White Houses, placed the bulk of the blame for the attacks on President Bush and apologized to the families of the approximately 3,000 victims, saying, “Your government failed you.”

Clarke, the star witness at the two days of hearings by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, accused Rice and Bush of ignoring Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terrorist network before the attacks. He said his access to senior officials was cut off by the new Bush administration, which he said did not consider terrorism to be an “urgent problem.” In contrast, he said, the Clinton administration gave the terrorist threat its “highest priority.”

In interviews to promote his new book this week, Clarke alleged that Rice appeared not to even have heard of al-Qaida when he first broached the subject with her. He portrayed Bush as being obsessed with Iraq and its president, Saddam Hussein, saying Bush asked him directly almost immediately after the attacks to find out whether Iraq was involved.

[plcdude]

1. I have two words for her this time

"under oath"

[htuttle]

3. She won't do it under oath

I have no use for more spin. Either she should do it under oath, or not bother.

[maddezmom]

4. my first thought as well

if it's not under oath, who care what you have to say, Condi.

[Fridays Child]

6. May I add two more?

In public.

[The_Gopher]

2. um, condi? you lost all your negotiating power yesterday.

[Brotherjohn]

5. As usual, it takes tremendous public outcry before they agree to anything.

And then they don't even really agree to it.

[The Sushi Bandit]

7. More posted on DU about the Bitch! (link)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=41594&mesg_id=41594

[sadiesworld]

8. The families should boycott unless it's under oath. (They will).

[RedEarth]

9. Condi are you going to lie some more, since you won't be under oath

This entire administration is a vile group of lying lairs.

[louis-t]

10. Oh, I see...

2 in private = 1 in public? Nah, don't think so.

[AlCzervik]

11. Dr. No

She should get the same time alloted to her that she gave the panel this week....NADA!

[deacon]

12. under oath and in public, if not clarke testimony is taken as...

...100% accurate.

[deacon]

13. Wouldn't someone so concerned about national security...

...be more than willing to participate? She should be hailing the possibility to get to the bottom of things.

[Moderator]

14. Locking

dupe - go here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x444245