Word: condoleezza
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...have profound respect for Condoleezza Rice and her accomplishments as George W. Bush's National Security Adviser. Whether she should have been more proactive in addressing terrorist threats during the months before 9/11 is open to debate. U.S. citizens have a right to know, however, what went wrong and how future attacks might be prevented. Whatever the outcome of the investigation, one can say that although the Bush Administration went all the way to Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction, it failed to [recognize] the fatal errors committed right [there] in the White House. Srinivas Balla Fairfax...
...Setting the Record Straight Not The Only One In our report on Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush's National Security Adviser [April 5], we said Brent Scowcroft was the only person to serve as National Security Adviser under two Presidents. McGeorge Bundy and Henry Kissinger also served as National Security Adviser for two Presidents: Bundy under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and Kissinger under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford...
...chief of counterterrorism said he wished he had 500 analysts tracking the army of Osama bin Laden in those days--"instead of two." Or that few of the 56 FBI field offices around the country could remember receiving any of the special alarms that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says she ordered up before the Twin Towers came crashing down. Had Americans known then that so many worries and so many warnings over so many years had produced so little response in the government agencies assigned to protect us, the future would have looked far scarier on Sept. 12 than...
...9/11 commissioners will now be free to ask more specific and politically freighted questions about it, and the document is provocative yet vague enough in its discussion of terrorist threats to allow partisans on each side to see what they want. As National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testified last week, the report fails to give specific indications about where, when or exactly how terrorists would attack. And much of the information is "historic," as Rice characterized the document. "The release of this PDB should clear up the myth," declared a senior White House official, "that the President was warned about...
...most dramatic moment of Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 commission last week--her confrontation with former Senator Bob Kerrey--was also the most revealing. Kerrey was hammering Rice about the President's now famous "fly swatting" remark. Bush had asked Rice for a comprehensive strategy for dealing with al-Qaeda; he didn't want any more futile pinprick attacks. "What fly had he swatted?" Kerrey demanded. And a minute later: "Why didn't we respond to the [bombing of the U.S.S.] Cole? Why didn't we swat that...