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...fact, the very week that President Bush executed a spectacular backflip with a twist, agreeing after weeks of refusal to let National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testify publicly and under oath before the 9/11 commission, the polls suggested that his strategy of painting Kerry as a waffler was working, especially in battleground states, where Kerry's 28% advantage over Bush coming out of the primaries has all but disappeared. While the race remains very tight in most polls, some showed Kerry's unfavorable ratings climbing 10 points in the weeks since he secured the nomination. In a Los Angeles Times...
What will Condoleezza Rice face when she appears this week, publicly and under oath, before the commission investigating 9/11? Sources close to the inquiry tell TIME that panelists will probably grill Rice not only on questions raised by critics like former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke but also on issues raised by Administration officials like John McLaughlin, a career CIA officer and deputy to director George Tenet. According to a staff report, McLaughlin told the commission in private that amid a major spike in terrorist-threat intelligence in the summer of 2001, he "felt a great tension--especially in June...
...glad to hear that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice will testify under oath and in public before the commission. But the White House’s insistence on the president and the vice president appearing together, is disheartening at best. We are confident that Bush would not willingly manufacture blatant lies and mouth them to the commission; yet with Dick Cheney by his side, Bush will be able to keep his story perfectly consistent with that of one of his closest advisers. One of the most important things the commission has to do in the coming months is compare testimony...
...before a congressional committee to determine whether his remarks back then contradicted what he told the 9/11 commission or wrote in his book. "It is one thing for Mr. Clarke to dissemble in front of the media," said Senate majority leader Bill Frist, "but if he lied under oath to the United States Congress, it is a far, far more serious matter." A number of Democrats who had heard Clarke's 2002 testimony came to his defense, saying they heard nothing then that was at odds with what he is saying...
Just about the only place that Rice did not appear was before the commission looking into the attacks of Sept. 11 during two days of gripping public testimony last week. Citing Executive privilege as a member of the President's staff, Rice said she could not appear under oath in a public session but would be happy to talk to the commission privately, as she already has done for four hours. Perhaps inevitably, given the manifold outlets for her ire, not everything Rice said was internally consistent. At one time she claimed that most of Clarke's ideas for combatting...