National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice sits across from President Bush, meeting with his Cabinet and advisors, on Sept. 15, 2001, at Camp David, Md.
Bush’s national security advisor dodged the 9/11 commission, but she can’t evade its judgement. In an article written by Martin Sieff for Salon magazine, he reports that the Bush administration’s former counterterrorism chief, Richard A. Clarke, told the commission investigating the 9/11 terrorist attacks that only a week before the attacks he had sent Condoleezza Rice a powerful and prophetic letter warning of the danger that hundreds of Americans could die in a terrorist strike.
“You urge policymakers to imagine a day after hundreds of Americans lay dead at home and abroad after a terrorist attack and ask themselves what else they could have done. You write this, seven days before 9/11?” former Democratic Rep. Tim Roemer asked Clarke in a nationally televised open session of the commission.
Clarke tersely confirmed he had sent the letter with a single word, “Yes.”
The New York Times reports in tomorrow’s paper that “under mounting pressure from Democrats about its response to the investigation into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the White House offered Thursday to have Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, answer more questions from the Sept. 11 panel,” while Times’ columnist Bob Herbert takes the Bush White House to task for their failure to respond appropriately to 9/11, stating that “the U.S. never pursued Al Qaeda with the focus, tenacity and resources it would expend — and continues to expend — on Iraq.”
condoleeazza looks like an alien to me. she has the look of a warlike lizard race seen in many cheap sci-fi films. i would bet a nickel she eats live insects and has to bask in the sun for a few hours a day to warm her blood. the question is, how many aliens are there in GWB’s cabinet?