WP: Rice 9/11 Testimony May Be Released

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After resisting for months, White House officials worked yesterday to negotiate a compromise that would allow public release of national security adviser Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the independent commission looking into the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to administration aides.

These aides said the White House believes Rice's refusal to testify is becoming a political problem and officials are looking for a way out. The leading possibility is for Rice to submit to another private session with the commissioners and allow them to release a transcript, the aides said.

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Just five or six of the 10 commission members attended Rice's first session; commissioners said that was because she insisted on holding the session on a Saturday, in the White House complex.

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Bush and Vice President Cheney have said they are willing to "visit" with the commission if the sessions are private and if they are not under oath. Bush has said he would not meet with all 10 commissioners -- only with Chairman Thomas H. Kean and Vice Chairman Lee H. Hamilton.

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[whistle]

1. Oh God no! Don't ever testify under oath....

...can't go being held to the truth now can they? Bush, Cheney and the rest of the top White House people are so transparent it's laughable. I smell impeachment and it smells like victory.:party: :toast: :bounce: :hurts: :spank: :beer: :wow: :nuke: :hi: :dem: :kick: :headbang: :yourock:

[alcuno]

2. She didn't gives testimony. She had a conversation.

That's what Lee Hamilton's calling it.

[stopbush]

3. As Lee Hamilton pointed out tonight on Tweety, this is not testimony

as it wasn't under oath. He called it something else.

Calling Sleeza's informal chat fests with the 9/11 commission "testimony" is a ploy to elevate her prevarications to the level of under-oath *testimony.*

The Dems should be all over this.

[grytpype]

4. It wasn't testimony AND there's no transcript!

It wasn't testimony AND there's no transcript! She was not under oath, and the only record are the committee members' notes! What the fark are they going to release?

[Occulus]

5. Unacceptable.

Under oath, in public, Ms. Rice.

I refuse to utilize the appellation 'Dr.'

[stopbush]

6. Aw, c'mon. You would hold back the title if you were talking about

Mengele. Why deny the title to Rice?