Rice Is Agreeable to Return for More of 9/11 Panel's Queries

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By ADAM NAGOURNEY and RICHARD W. STEVENSON

Published: March 26, 2004


WASHINGTON, March 25 — 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. At the same time, President Bush forcefully denied accusations that he had ignored the severity of the threat from Al Qaeda.

The White House announced late Thursday that Ms. Rice was willing to appear before the panel again, but only in private and not under oath. Some Republicans said that Mr. Bush was being undercut by the perception that a senior White House official would not cooperate, while his aides were out pummeling Richard A. Clarke, the former counterterrorism chief who has accused the Bush administration of not heeding warnings before Sept. 11.

The moves came as the White House also sought to deflect new criticism of Mr. Bush for his handling of counterterrorism issues in the months before the attacks and to contain the fallout of an investigation that Democrats and some Republicans said could cast a shadow over his re-election campaign.

The Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, called on the White House to cease "character attacks" on Mr. Clarke.

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link: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/26/politics/26PANE.html?hp

to hide??
If there really were ANY 'honor and dignity' restored to the White House (well, in the first place, this den of thieves would not even be there, but anyhow...) they would be doing everything they could to honor the dead, the survivors, the families, and the American people to spill it all, or we really DO face an increased threat of something happening again...we cannot afford to have anything ever be such a clusterfuck as this whole thing ever again.

as she continues to munch on her toes, they can subpoena her and put her under oath later... it's nice to see this as a series of increasingly painful meetings for condi. personally, i wouldn't mind if she had a breakdown of some kind over the pressure.

Rice doing the Woody Woodpecker laugh!

do they? I thought that was one of the conditions set by the Bush administration to have the hearings at all. I may be wrong.

So, what's the point?

If they have nothing to hide, they shouldn't mind being questioned publicly and under oath - this is what the right wing always says to everyone else.

She must have some serious balls to be willing to meet behind closed doors where she wont be sworn in.

I salute you Condi... you are truly one cowardly piece of shit.

and cowardly. A perfect example, if more were needed, of the mindset in our government. They seem to believe that they are so far above the rest of us that any behavior on their part is to be not only accepted, but admired. They are all psychopaths of one sort or another.:bounce:

anti-war lefty, a new kind of Democrat hitting voting booths this Nov.

What does jo35042 stand for?

dupe - go here

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