Rice: Does anyone really believe I'd ignore terror warning?

[kpete]

Rice: Does anyone really believe I'd ignore terror warning?

Ron Brynaert
Published: Thursday October 12, 2006

Early Thursday morning, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied that she gave the "brush-off" to an "impending terrorist attack" warning by former C.I.A. director George J. Tenet and his counterterrorism coordinator in July of 2001, two months before the September 11 attacks, which was first reported in Washington Post investigative reporter's Bob Woodward's latest book State of Denial.

The former National Security Adviser, interviewed on Detroit's Paul Smith Show on WJRI Radio, said that the "assertion that would hear about a specific attack and not do anything" is "obviously just not true."

"On July 10, 2001, the book says, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, met with Ms. Rice at the White House to impress upon her the seriousness of the intelligence the agency was collecting about an impending attack," David E. Sanger reported for the New York Times in September. "But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. Rice had not taken the warnings seriously."

On the radio, Rice asked rhetorically, "Does anybody really believe that somebody would have walked into my office and said, oh, by the way, there's a chance of a major attack against the United States and I would have said, well, I'm really not interested in that information?"

"I mean, it's just ridiculous," said Rice.

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[Rosco T.]

1. Yes, we do... n/m

[babylonsister]

2. In a word, "YES"! nt

[meegbear]

3. Actually Condi ... YES.

[acmavm]

4. Why wouldn't we believe it? You've proven over and over and

over again that you're an incompetent wretch.

[station agent]

5. Yes.

She was the one who said that Iraq was the primary foreign policy focus on day one--not terror like Sandy Berger said, Iraq. So yes, we do believe you would ignore it.

[90-percent]

Condi, Dear.....

Based on every account of your actions preceding 9-11, it is so easy to believe you ignored all the warnings prior to 9-11.

It's a no-brainer slam dunk.

-85% Jimmy

[savemefromdumbya]

6. Of course she already knew

as she helped plan it? Sounds like it, say no more, say no more....

[williesgirl]

7. So, Condi, what did you do about it? The truth would be welcome!

[liberalmuse]

8. Hell yeah. And the point is, YOU DID.

I don't believe Tenet started his briefing off with, 'Oh, by the way...', but I do believe the facts prove he got the brush off from the members of the Bush administration.

[Homer Wells]

9. YUP!!!!

Without even considering it too closely

[Beelzebud]

10. No belief. I KNOW you would...

[Downtown Hound]

11. Yes I do, primarily because you did

[davekriss]

12. Um, yes Condi, I believe...

...you would ignore warnings about terrorism. In fact I believe that's what you and the Regime you work for did, i.e. let it happen on purpose in order to have your "new Pearl Harbor" needed to manufacture consent for the neo-con/PNAC imperial agenda. The circumstantial evidence is powerful, calling for an independent investigation and not another Whitewash committee.

[Porcupine]

114. To be fair she wasn't given the seat numbers of the terrorists.

Just the kind of attack, the names of potential terrorists, the targets and most probably the date within a week or so. Judging by the non-action of the worlds largest Air Force they also had the date and time of the attacks in order to insert stand down orders also.

But she didn't have the full list of terrorists, flight and seat numbers. So nothing could be done.

[Double T]

13. Condi, it is ridiculous that you were NOT interested in THIS info.........

you've failed miserably in the NSA and as Secretary of State.

[stepnw1f]

14. yes... you sociopathic b*tch (nt)

[Subdivisions]

15. Hey Condom! It wasn't an "Oh, by the way..." moment. It was the

theme of the fucking meeting you traitorous harlot.

[Marnieworld]

28. Since when is hair on fire, blinking red, and 10 on a scale of 1 to 10...

a "By the way" communication? Who is stupid enough to be satisfied with this?

[NewJeffCT]

60. As I said the other day - Condi's threat levels go to 11

Right across the board - 11, 11, 11.

[radfringe]

16. yup n/t

[twilight_sailing]

17. Disingenuous Condi

After all the lies you have told, Condi, who is going to trust you now?

[IdaBriggs]

18. Yes, you incompetent twit, I do! And YOU DID! Firing Squad, PLEASE! nt

[NV Whino]

19. Yes, Condi.

[Coexist]

20. Yes.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. Does a bear deficate in the woods? She lies as easily as she breathes.

[catmandu57]

22. OOH OOH OOH

Yes I believe you black hearted souless evil incompetent bitch, now somebody go tell your boss that catmandu57 said bad things about you on the internet.

[tk2kewl]

29. Yesss.... Mista Katta...

[aquart]

23. We do, Condi. We do.

[Marnieworld]

24. I do!

Because that's exactly what happened. A defense would be, "That's ridiculous because after that meeting I did a, b, and c and the entire administration responded with x,y, and z actions." But no she defends herself by just saying the thought is ridiculous because we should trust she's better than that? Well I don't.

They went on VACATION. That is ignoring it. end of story.

[seabeyond]

25. yes n/t

[LSK]

26. YES

Then tell us what the fuck you did to stop 9/11?

[Beetwasher]

27. assertion that would hear about a specific attack and not do anything

*sigh*

No one is making that assertion, Condi you idiot. Again w/ this bullshit strawman about a "specific" attack, as if someone would walk into her office w/ flight numbers and exact dates.

[Marr]

30. That Condi sure is quick on the up-take.

YES, moron- that is indeed what people think. And rightfully so.

[Botany]

31. No Condi I don't think you would do nothing but

I am sure that bush 8/6/01 PDB, you 7/11/01 warning, Rummy & Ashcroft 7/?/01 warnings as per you
might do something as in:
bush to CIA briefer on 8/6/01 "You told me, you covered your ass now get out of here."
Ashcroft Quit flying commercial planes
Rice Told Mayor of San Fran Willie Brown, not to fly
Rummy 9/13/01 There are no good targets in Afghanistan ..... What about Iraq, Iraq, Iraq?
@ White House D o D meeting.

I want you in jail you scummy little shit.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

32. Does anyone really believe she'd tell the truth about it?

[thecrow]

33. What y'all said above

[Pithy Cherub]

34. No doubt about it! Condi lies

to protect her husb....

[hsher]

35. Why yes, Your Fucking Highness

And there, whaddaya know.
Yet another idea for tonight's Daily Show comic.


"That's two! Two ideas! (Cue lightning, roll of thunder) Ha, ha ha!"

www.yourmorningleibowitz.blogspot.com
The Daily Show as a comic strip

[truthisfreedom]

36. is that a rhetorical question? because if it's not, the answer is YES!

we believe! we believe! you've made believers out of us, condi!

[gully]

37. Well if you supposedly can't remember getting one??????????????

YES!

[opihimoimoi]

38. As it turns out: TO BELIEVE HER.....IS RIDICULOUS/ABSURD

[KansDem]

39. !

[Benhurst]

40. Yeah, but don't get upset. I'll bet you never missed anything really

important, like, say, a Ferragamo sale.

[Cha]

41. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

You neocon lyin' twitch.

[SammyWinstonJack]

42. YES!

[beyurslf]

43. Um, well, yeah, actually I do.

[GreenTea]

44. In a heartbeat, to further the Bush fascist cause! No question about it!

Bush was sinking like a rock before 9/11

[Jack Rabbit]

45. Cut the feigned offense, Condi

That schtick was old when you gave it to Senator Boxer for calling you a liar.

You did ignore a terror warning and you are a liar.

[gulliver]

46. Is there a denial in there somewhere? I don't see it.

I see her asking a rhetorical question as a straw man, then answering it. But that doesn't deny the actual charge.

[Dudley_DUright]

47. Me Me Me

[Cleita]

48. Oh dear!

Is someone questioning her integrity again?

If she grew a nose like Pinnochio every time she lied, hers would reach coast to coast by now.

[BootinUp]

49. What amazes me, is that dum dum Americans believe this liar.

There was a poll recently showing this.

[nadinbrzezinski]

50. Yes Mrs Rice

proof is in the damn pudding

[BuyingThyme]

51. Yes.

[lumberjack_jeff]

52. There you go with your "belief" again. Belief is not necessary, it's truth

n/t

[roamer65]

53. Yes. I do believe you would and did.

[librechik]

54. Condi, you didn't answer the question.

and we all know what actually happened--You Did NOTHING!!!

[myrna minx]

55. I love how the debate has been changed.

What a defensive statement coming from a total incompetent. This sounds like a question Homer Simpson would rhetorically ask.

[Fierce]

56. I don't believe much outta you, honey, but I'd believe that.

nt

[sinkingfeeling]

57. Yes, not once, not twice, but dozens of times!!

[rman]

58. we know you did

it's criminal

[Frustratedlady]

59. Gee, according to Condi, Woodward lied about everything...

especially things that had to do with her.

Wake up, Condi. The honeymoon is over.

[Solly Mack]

61. I would! Me! Me! Me!

I did! I do!

You're a lying sack of shit, Rice. Why would I pretend you're anything else?

[HereSince1628]

62. Ignore? No, refuse to act on, YES.

[WI_DEM]

63. well, the record seems to indicate that "yes, apparently you did"

she is so used to the press slobbering all over her that it actually shocks her when something like this is reported.

[dave123williams]

64. Note that she calls it 'ridiculous' but not 'untrue'.

Non denial denial.

[Nickster]

65. Believe? No. I KNOW that you did! n/t

[Tom Joad]

66. If there were a shoe sale that day, yes!

We understand Condi, a National Security advisor must be well-dressed.

[Liberal In Texas]

67. Witnesses say you did.

In a court of law, it would be enough to convict you.

[katinmn]

68. At the risk of "impugning" your reputation: YES!

[progressoid]

69. yes

[ThomCat]

70. Yes. Would, Did, and would again

if you saw any political gain from it, and if addressing the warning would take any of your precious time away from your politial work.

[malaise]

71. Yes

COndi is a pathological liar.

[Az_lefty]

72. I do you incompetent $itch!!!!!!!!!!

[samsingh]

73. yes , i do

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

74. You got all the warnings, so in a word YES!

You are a liar, Condi, so your word is crap

[grytpype]

75. .

[xxqqqzme]

76. if you have to ask.......

This country is burdened w/ incompetent office holders whose only demonstrated talent seems to be their ability to lie on a whim; displaying an expressionless face or a countenance of absolute determination; wide eyes; and then later deny evidence to the contrary.

[IChing]

77. what everyone else said

does she have an one iota of credibility now?

[Blue_Tires]

78. um...yeah

almost like a willful negligence---dare i say that it ALMOST looks like some key people in a position to prevent it sat in the background and allowed it to happen ON PURPOSE???

uh oh, i've said too much now!

[noonwitch]

79. No, but downplay, yes

Obviously, your boss didn't think it was all that important. Perhaps you didn't stress the urgency enough with him?

[Imagevision]

80. Stupid question Rice, actions speak for themselves

[razors edge]

81. Let me think about that,

does a bear shit in the woods?

[MNWild]

82. "I mean, it's just ridiculous," said Rice.

Do you mean like "No one ever anticipated that anyone would fly planes into buildings" ridiculous? In my mind there is very little difference between "Go brief Ashcroft and Rumsfeld" and "Go tell someone who gives a rats ass". Apparently some well connected people quit flying commercial aircraft, so a certain level of interest was generated. Unfortunately for the passengers on flight 93 and a couple of thousand people, you seem to have taken the "Adviser to the President" part of your title a lot more seriously than the "National Security" part. The FAA should have been on high alert.

[blogslut]

83. Liar

They didn't say "Oh, by the way". They demanded a meeting with her. They told her al Qaeda was going to attack, probably within the US. They told her it was a strategic warning. They warned her and she can lie all damned day. Even her bud Philip Zelikow, backs up Tenet and Black.

[Control-Z]

84. I do

I do, I do

[Supersedeas]

85. Saying 'ridiculous' is just rhetoric--WHAT DID SHE DO--she could spell out

what actions she affirmatively took--but that is NOT WHAT SHE IS DOING.

Instead, she is just attacking the messenger.

[rateyes]

86. Condasleezy bought shoes during Hurricane Katrina,

put her head up her ass before (and after) 9.11...

She would sell out her own mother for BeelzeBush!

[RevolutionStartsNow]

87. From Her Lips to God's Ears

It's better when you hear it put to music, but think angry punk rock beat...

"From Her Lips To God's Ears (The Energizer)" -- by Against Me!

Regime change under a Bush doctrine of democratic installations.
Constant war for constant soldiers.
What are we gonna do now?
De-escalation, through military force.
Increase the pressure, Oh Condoleeza
What should we do about the situation in Iran and North Korea?

Condoleeza!

Democratic election under Marshall law.
An Iraqi president out of control of our choices.
After all this death and destruction
Do you really think your actions advocate freedom?
The president's giving a speech in Georgetown
To remember the voice of a slain civil rights leader,
Do you understand what the martyrs stood for?
Oh Condoleeza do you get the fucking joke?

[mhatrw]

88. Yes.

What a classic non-denial "denial."

[The_Casual_Observer]

89. It's a fact. It's not a matter of belief.

[lovuian]

90. Yep we believe it Condi

We sure believe your lie

[ElboRuum]

91. Um... Yes. Yes I would... n/t.

[ComerPerro]

92. She has told WAY too many lies to still think she deserves

any kind of benefit of doubt or respect just because of who she is and the position she holds

[bunny planet]

93. umm, Yeah.

[AntiFascist]

94. Oh Condi, we all know who you still really work for...

Exxon and companies.

[Rex]

95. Yes and you will rot in Hell for it.

nt

[guinivere]

96. Of course I believe that. It would be ridiculous not to.

I don't think terror attack info would be an 'oh by the way' type scenario.

Good grief. Wretched Ferragamo wearing, lying sack o'poop, poor excuse for a Secy of State.

[VOX]

97. Condi, if you *did* know, you didn't do anything. And if you didn't know..

obviously, you blew it. Face it -- either way, you're screwed!

[Gwerlain]

98. Oh, HELL YEAH. No question in my mind. n/t

[jberryhill]

99. It's a matter of FACT, not "belief"

Facts are not "faith-based", Condi.

[tblue37]

100. Does anyone really believe I'd go shoe shopping

and yuk it up at Spamalot while a major US city was being destroyed and people of all ages, from infants to the aged, were drowning or dying from lack of food and water? Obviously no one could possibly be that callous!

[sakabatou]

101. No shit, Condi

[Raster]

102. You've got to be kidding, right? Here's one for you:

An Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice
Re: 9-11 investigation and Commission testimony ... You knew. You kept silent. They died.

by Catherine Austin Fitts
Former Assistant Secretary of Housing, Bush I


Hon. Condoleezza Rice
National Security Advisor
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

April 9, 2004

Dear Ms. Rice:

I am writing to communicate four points regarding your testimony yesterday under oath before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.

Point #1: You are a liar.

Attorney General Ashcroft sits on the National Security Council. Warned by his FBI security detail, the head of law enforcement for the United States knew to avoid commercial airlines on September 11, 2001.

It was your job as National Security Advisor to make sure that the people who flew on American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, United Airlines Flight 93 and American Airlines Flight 77 had the benefit of the same warnings as those they paid to protect us.

You knew. You kept silent. They died.

You had numerous warnings of the risks of 9-11 – sufficient to let the American people know and use their best judgment as to how to protect themselves from a possible attack. It was your job as National Security Advisor to make sure that the people in the South Tower of the World Trade Center had the knowledge they needed to evacuate their building upon seeing the North Tower hit by a plane.

You knew. You kept silent. They died.

Point #2: Your motives are transparent.

The World Trade Center is in the heart of New York City – one of the great financial capitals of the world. The Pentagon is in the heart of Washington -- the appropriation and accounting capital for the US federal budget and credit and the US Treasury – the largest issuer of securities in the world.

Unlike many other terrorist attacks, these attacks killed people whose family, friends and neighbors understand how these financial systems work. Victim families, friends and the residents of the communities directly harmed can calculate who made money on 9-11 profiteering. They can trace the flow of money into the 2004 Presidential campaign coffers from the profits your supporters made as a result of 9-11 profiteering. They can calculate how 9-11 profiteering connects to the financing and silence of corporate media.

Those personally impacted and the global researchers they network with have the intellectual power and personal courage to ask and answer, “Cui Bono?” (Who Benefits?) They understand that your success as National Security Advisor is as a direct result of your failure to stop 9-11. They can see how your lies about 9-11 made money for the investment syndicate that put you in power and for the buyers of US Treasury securities who are so richly paid to finance the US military, intelligence and enforcement apparatus and the defense contractors and oil interests it serves.

All the campaign ads in the world can not now convince the American people that you have their best interests at heart.

Point #3: You are going down.

The richest and most powerful people in the world pay for performance. They pay you to make the US governmental apparatus look legitimate while they use it to centralize economic and political power. That means they need liars who are better at lying than you.

The myth that you had no idea that Americans deserved to be warned about the risks of flying or planes being used as weapons is now in the dust heap with the notion that the United States attacked Iraq and our soldiers are dying to protect us from Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Your lies of 9-11 – like your lies about the Iraqi war – have been profitable for the military-banking complex you represent. These lies, however, have not misled the crowd. The American people and global citizens are looking for the truth. We demand the changes that will give meaning and honor to those who died on 9-11 and in the ensuing wars. We demand an end to further bloodshed. We demand a refund of all that you and your backers have stolen from those of us who remain alive.

Point #4: You are guilty of criminal gross negligence.

If you want to catch a terrorist today, you need look no further than your own mirror.

Many Americans gather this weekend to give thanks that Jesus died for our sins and gave us the covenant of grace. In the spirit of our Lord's crucifixion and resurrection, may God have mercy on your soul.


Sincerely Yours,

Catherine Austin Fitts
Former Assistant Secretary of Housing, Bush I
President
Solari, Inc.
PO Box 157
Hickory Valley, TN 38042
731.764.2515
[e-mail]



Letter Submitted:

White House Webmail: https://sawho14.eop.gov/PERSdata/intro.htm
E-mail cc to:
President George W. Bush: [e-mail] ;
Vice President Richard Cheney: [e-mail] ;
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Comments: 202-456-1111
Tel: [phone]

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
301 7th Street, SW
Room 5125
Washington, DC 20407
[phone]
[e-mail]

Background Articles:

Ashcroft Flying High
CBS News
Washington DC, July 26, 2001
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main...

A Historical Whitewash?
by Kelly Patricia O'Meara
Insight Magazine, November 24, 2003
http://www.insightmag.com/news/565658.html

If the World Was Talking, Why Didn't We Listen?
by Kelly Patricia O'Meara
Insight Magazine, November 24, 2003
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&story...

9-11 Profiteering
by Catherine Austin Fitts
Scoop Media, March 22, 2004
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0403/S00244.htm

A Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal
by Catherine Austin Fitts
Scoop Media, October 6, 2003
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0310/S00038.htm

Where is the Money?
http://www.whereisthemoney.org
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[gumby]

103. Don't call you 'Kindasleazyliar' for nothing.

.

[andlor]

104. I do !!!!!!

[Crunchy Frog]

105. Yes, I do believe it Ms Rice.

I believe that you also went on an Imelda Marcos like shoe shopping spree while New Orleans was being drowned. Like everyone else in this administration, you're more interested in power than you are in serving the interests of the American people. You are also a compulsive and pathological liar.

[gristy]

106. Yes,

I do believe you would ignore a terror warning.

Any more questions?

[dooner]

107. Wasn't there a shoe sale that day? n/t

[LynnTheDem]

108. Yes.

And you did.

[Guaranteed]

109. You DID ignore one, dumbass. nt

[proud patriot]

110. It IS ridiculous , and why did you ignore the warnings Condi

Why won't you deny it ? Of course it's ridulous , but it IS
the Fact of the Matter.

I wish these reporters would follow-up these non-denials

[leesa]

111. Yes, and I think you did it with intent and purpose. Clear enough?

[barb162]

112. Here's the quote

"But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. Rice had not taken the warnings seriously."

This doesn't mean she IGNORED them. She just didn't know what to do with the info once they gave it to her. As I recall they had no specifics other than something big was going to happen somewhere soon. I remember being angry about this info when I first heard it but then eased off a bit as we didn't know how, when or where the attack(s) was going to take place or even on which continent. Richard Clarke would have done something if he had known specifics, I think.

[Subdivisions]

115. Bullshite! She was told in that meeting that airliner hijackings

were probably the most likely scenario and there had been several earlier warning, even all the way back to Yamsey Yusef, about flying airplanes into buildings. I'm sure Clarke would not have left this possibility out.

There is NO defense for her. She's just as responsible as Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld for every single life lost relevant to that meeting. That includes the 655,000 Iraqis as well as the 3000 people who died on 9/11.

[Imagevision]

113. Rice, A Sell-Out, A Traitor!!

[Festivito]

116. Why else would that question be answered rhetorically?

Testing the waters? See if a non-answer will fly before having to outright lie, which in your mind would be to protect national security anyway?

It's rediculous? It's rediculous alright. But to what did your it refer, the original question, or that a liar had to answer such a question in the first place?

[kiki]

117. Jesus. This is what they're reduced to.

It's like a murderer in court whose entire defence is: "Hey, would I do something like that? C'maaan! Sure, I had the victim's blood on my clothes and the murder weapon in my house, and eight people saw me do it, but look at this face! Ain't I adorable? Ask my sweet, grey-haired old mom. She'll tell ya - I wouldn't hurt a fly."

[Canuckistanian]

118. (Nods head vigorously) YES

Exhibit #1 - Condi did NOTHING after the warnings.

[Dora]

119. Classic misdirection: Answer a question with another question.

Keep up the pressure. She's going to crack.

[CelticWinter]

120. All I have to say is

Helllllllllllll yessssssssssss.

[helderheid]

121. absolutely I believe it

[Liberal_Dog]

122. You're Damned Right I Do!!!

eom

[ck4829]

123. No

Well, actually YES!

[ProfessorGAC]

124. No Condi! I Don't Believe You Ignored It!

I believe you didn't understand it, you idiot!
The Professor

[tinfoilinfor2005]

125. Just about everyone,

Miss Ostrich.

[Brazenly Liberal]

126. Was there a shoe sale at the time?

Cuz we know that's enough to distract you when people are actually in the process of dying, so why wouldn't it distract you when the deaths are yet to come?