Reply #20: It would be pretty stupid to try and deny it at this point...

[Mithras61]

more from the article:

But just where did that magic "40 times" come from? Turns out Clarke's old pal Condi Rice used it in her testimony April 8 defending the administration: "At these meetings, the president received up-to-date intelligence and asked questions of his most senior intelligence officials. From January 20th through September 10th <2001>, the president received at these daily meetings more than 40 briefing items on al Qaeda, and 13 of those were in response to questions he or his top advisers posed."


Of course, it wouldn't be the first time that this misadministration has come out in direct contradiction to what one of it's own has said on the record...