Running Out of Clever Titles
Posted on | October 3, 2006
Another week, another new revelation of lies from SecState Condi:
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 2 — A review of White House records has determined that George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, did brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat from Al Qaeda, a State Department spokesman said Monday.
The account by Sean McCormack came hours after Ms. Rice, the secretary of state, told reporters aboard her airplane that she did not recall the specific meeting on July 10, 2001, noting that she had met repeatedly with Mr. Tenet that summer about terrorist threats. Ms. Rice, the national security adviser at the time, said it was “incomprehensible” she ignored dire terrorist threats two months before the Sept. 11 attacks.
Seems not only comprehensible, but typical. The neocons rode into town with one agenda: enriching their cronies. They never dreamed that they might actually have to work for a living. Rice’s inertia was standard procedure for the Bush Administration; they believed that their war could be fought safely out of American eyesight, and were completely unprepared when our own defenses were breached. Rice was as unqualified then to advise on national security as she is now to conduct diplomacy.
If she honestly does not now recall the meeting with Tenet, it’s merely another sign of her disinterest in securing the nation.
