[cyncooper]

While Dr Rice, on balance, is good and truthful, the full truth would be that while perhaps not present in *this* pdb, the administration was aware of al queda's plans to use airliners as missiles on important US targets.

You are incorrect. So far credibility goes to Rice and she says she was not briefed on that and nobody has contradicted her. If she says she was not, then she wasn't. Who claimed to have briefed President Bush on that? Anybody? I don't think so. If it was not passed on, then it was not passed on.

[Triple]

If she did not know, she should have known, which is either her fault or the fault of the CIA.