[Peach]

Fred Barnes just said two things on FNC I had not heard before:

1. When Condi Rice testified privately to the 9/11 Commission, of the 10 commissioners, only five showed up!
Fred thought that was amazing considering how much importance the commission has put on her testimony.

2. Fred mentioned that when Chairman Kean gave a press conference today he called for Rice to merely repeat the same stuff publicly that she said privately. What is the point of that?

[prairiebreeze]

I heard that too from Barnes about only 5 showing up! Un-freakin'-believable! Just another illustration of what a kangaroo court, Mickey Mouse commission this is!

There is no good point to such insistence on having Condi testify IMO. And how in the world do they expect to have her "merely repeat" what she said in four hours of questioning? Will she be testifying for 4 hours? Or will they compress what she said?

Prairie