Memo Contradicts Rice on 9/11 claim from Woodward

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2387256,00.html


Memo contradicts Rice on 9/11 claim from Woodward

From Tom Baldwin in Washington


Condoleezza Rice was today at the heart of the US Administration’s escalating battle with a former CIA head and Washington’s most revered journalist over who should shoulder the blame for failing to anticipate the 9/11 attacks.

The State Department has admitted that a review of records has shown that George Tenet, the then CIA director, did brief Dr Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat from al-Qaeda.



This appears to undermine comments made by Dr Rice to reporters this week when she claimed not to remember any such meeting. She added that it was “incomprehensible” that she ignored terrorist threats two months before the September 11 attacks.

Dr Rice’s aides have fought back, saying that records show she told Mr Tenet to take his concerns to, among others, John Ashcroft, the then Attorney-General.

[Xipe Totec]

1. she told Mr Tenet to take his concerns to somebody who cares

I guess that makes it ok? :crazy:

[Supersedeas]

2. did she think that terrorism was a 'Law Enforcement' matter???

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. You are absolutely right, Condi.

It is incomprehensible.

Now do the right thing, and resign.