Finally, the White House is reportedly moving to declassify congressional testimony then-White House adviser Richard Clarke gave in 2002. By declassifying this testimony, the White House is breaking the very same "principle" of barring White House adviser's testimony from being public that Rice is using to avoid appearing publicly before the 9/11 commission!
RICE LIES AGAIN: "Iraq was put aside" immediately after 9/11.
FACTS: According to the Washington Post, "six days after the attacks on the World Trade Center the Pentagon, President Bush signed a 2-and-a-half-page document" that "directed the Pentagon to begin planning military options for an invasion of Iraq."
This is corroborated by a CBS News, which reported on 9/4/02 that five hours after the 9/11 attacks, "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq." The President therefore did not put Iraq aside — he merely deferred it to a second phase, after Afghanistan.
(In terms of resources, the Iraq decision had far-reaching effects on the efforts to hunt down Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. As the Boston Globe reported, "the Bush administration is continuing to shift highly specialized intelligence officers from the hunt for Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan to the Iraq crisis."
In other words, RICHARD CLARKE was not the only person saying this.
Unless Rice testifies before the 9/11 commission UNDER OATH, EVERYTHING SHE SAYS IS SUSPECT.
But what else is new for the Bush Administration?
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Article comments
1 - Hal Pawluk
The only good sign I've seen so far is that a few Republicans are starting to realize that there's a distinct difference between being a Republican and just blindly following the neocons.
For example, the entire 9/11 Commission is asking that Condi testify before them, in public and under oath. Their position is that they were appointed by the President, not Congress.
Maybe common sense will take hold, after all.
2 - Shark
...a few Republicans are starting to realize that there's a distinct difference between being a Republican and just blindly following the neocons.
I think there's a line being drawn here that might delineate -- for Republicans -- something important for the future: anyone who values personal integrity has to start questioning the lies and distortions of this administration.
We'll see who wants to hang onto their soul and who wants to sell it to the devil by sticking to the party line at all costs.
(I have a feeling Satan is churning out receipts faster than Bush is churning out deficits.)