Rice contradictions itemized.

[cmayer]

Excellent analysis from the WP. In attempting to destroy Clarke's credibility they are destroying their own.

Neither Silent Nor a Public Witness: Presidential Adviser Rice Becomes a 9/11 Focal Point as Contradictions Appear

This week's testimony and media blitz by former White House counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke has returned unwanted attention to his former boss, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.


The refusal by President Bush's top security aide to testify publicly before the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks elicited rebukes by commission members as they held public hearings without her this week. Thomas H. Kean (R), the former New Jersey governor Bush named to be chairman of the commission, observed: "I think this administration shot itself in the foot by not letting her testify in public."

At the same time, some of Rice's rebuttals of Clarke's broadside against Bush, which she delivered in a flurry of media interviews and statements rather than in testimony, contradicted other administration officials and her own previous statements.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25177-2004Mar25.html

[SendTheGOPPacking]

1. What an idiot.

She is both incompetent and a liar.

[Richardo]

2. Someone forgot to tell Chimpy....he said this again yesterday...

Rice had asked, in her private meetings with the commission, to revise a statement she made publicly that "I don't think anybody could have predicted that those people could have taken an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center . . . that they would try to use an airplane as a missile." Rice told the commission that she misspoke; the commission has received information that prior to Sept. 11, U.S. intelligence agencies and Clarke had talked about terrorists using airplanes as missiles.

Compare that to this....

From AP, March 26, 2004:
On a visit to New Hampshire, the president said if he knew terrorists would use airplanes to attack America, he would have used "every resource, every asset, every power" of the government to protect the American people.

Can these lying liars keep ANY of their stories straight? :mad:

http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=1738221

[opihimoimoi]

3. Lies Gone Wild in the Bush MisAdministration.... Oh my, what have we here?

The Cards are falling, the Cards are falling. Look, its the deuce of Lolo, Bush himself.

[indepat]

5. Notwithstanding, one poll of Tennessee voters has Bush 52%, Kerry 41%

[tnlefty]

8. Damn!!! Damn!!! Damn!!! Do you remember the poll?

Jeez it gets old...feeling like one is constantly slamming one's head into a concrete wall.

[skeptic9]

6. John Dean on the classified "smoking gun" against Condi Rice's biggest lie

From http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030729.html

"The 9/11 Report Raises More Serious Questions About The White House Statements On Intelligence

By JOHN W. DEAN Tuesday, Jul. 29, 2003

The recently released Report of the Joint Congressional Inquiry Into The Terrorist Attacks Of September 11, and its dismal findings, have been well reported by the news media. What has not been widely reported, however, are the inescapable conclusions that must be drawn from a close reading of this bipartisan study. ... Bluntly stated, either the Bush White House knew about the potential of terrorists flying airplanes into skyscrapers (notwithstanding their claims to the contrary), or the CIA failed to give the White House this essential information, which it possessed and provided to others. Bush is withholding the document that answers this question. Accordingly, it seems more likely that the former possibility is the truth. That is, it seems very probable that those in the White House knew much more than they have admitted, and they are covering up their failure to take action. ...

One of the most important sets of documents that the Congressional Inquiry sought was a set of copies of the President's Daily Brief (PDB), which is prepared each night by the CIA. ... In particular, it asked for information about the August 6, 2001 Daily Brief relating to Osama Bin Laden's terrorist threats against the United States, and other Daily Brief items regarding Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, and pre-September 11 terrorism threats. ...

The president's briefing of August 6, 2001 was the subject of public discussion even before the Inquiry started its work. As the 9/11 Report notes in a footnote (at page 206), "National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice stated in a May 16, 2002 press briefing that, on August 6, 2001, the President Daily Brief (PDB) included information about Bin Laden's methods of operation from a historical perspective dating back to 1997." At that May 16, 2002 briefing, Rice went on to say that the Brief made clear that one method Bin Laden might choose was to hijack an airline, taking hostages to gain release of one of their operatives. She said it was "a generalized warring" with nothing about time, place or method. And she added, "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon." Unfortunately, Rice's statements don't fit comfortably with the Inquiry's information....

What exactly did say? We cannot know. But the Inquiry's 9/11 Report lays out all such threats, over that time period, in thirty-six bullet point summaries. It is only necessary to cite a few of these to see the problem: In September 1998, the obtained information that Bin Laden's next operation might involve flying an explosive-laden aircraft into a U.S. airport and detonating it.

In the fall of 1998, the obtained information concerning a Bin Laden plot involving aircraft in the New York and Washington, D.C. areas. In March 2000, the obtained information regarding the types of targets that operatives of Bin Laden's network might strike. The Statute of Liberty was specifically mentioned , as were SKYSCRAPERS, ports, airports, and nuclear power plans.

In sum, the 9/11 Report of the Congressional Inquiry indicates that the intelligence community was very aware that Bin Laden might fly an airplane into an American skyscraper. ..."

[Jacobin]

4. They are signalling that she is leaving at the end of 2004

talkingpointsmemo.com

Its a bit confusing, but either she's leaving or thinks she'll take Colon's job when he leaves.

gack

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

7. we should sent that article out to every news media

not that it would make a difference

[Trajan]

10. EVERYONE in DC knows who Pincus is ....

This isnt the first time he has shoved the FACTS right into the Derrieres of the Bush team ... He also was instrumental in exposing the "Yellowcake" forgeries, and the Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame fiasco ...

THIS will be well read in Washington ...

[Trajan]

9. Walter Pincus AGAIN carries the Torch into the arena ...

I know there are some who despise Pincus for his prior sycophancy to intelligence with a conservative view ... I would probably agree then ...

But NOW there can be NO DOUBT: .. Walter Pincus has worked tirelessly to present to the american people and the world a window into the lies and malfeasance of the Neocons who today hold government ....

GOD BLESS WALTER PINCUS ! ...