Condoleezza Rice & the 9-11 Commission [LIVE THREAD] 9AM EST

http://c-span.org/ ^ | 4-8-04 | ME

[OXENinFLA]

Rice Testifies Before 9/11 Cmsn. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testifies before the Sept. 11 Commission.

[Dr Snide]

That is so great I think I need to see it at least once a week

[Darlin']

"She is really kicking his pasty white ass."

Yes, and she is doing it authoritatively, thoroughly and without having to refer to a single note.

[wingster]

This entire charade is so adolescent that it's unbelieveable that this is even occurring at the top levels of our country!

[leprechaun9]

Does anyone really expect anything but a witch hunt from the KEAN FOLLIES?

Notice how KEAN permits the DNC cheering section to continue. Where is the RED HOOK? He is looking into National Security issues and he can't even maintain order in the hearing room!

[Inspectorette]

Yes - Big Jim Thompson, former Republican Governor of Illinois, is one of the good guys.

[don-o]

Please describe your relationship with Dick Clarke

[cyn]

thompson: "I don't believe in beating a dead horse, but there are a lot of lame horses running around, let's see if we can push them out the door." >> bringing out lies for condi to deal w/now.

[Petronski]

I'm reduced to cursing at the tv at this point.

While listening in my car, I wove an intricate and detailed tapestry of obscenity and profanity that floated to the heavens and will hover over this nation for decades to come as the very model of purity of disgust heretofor unseen in the mortal world...

[mel]

That Christian statement was off the map. I couldn't believe it.

[JustPiper]

re-elected

From your keyboard to God's ears

[Alberta's Child]

My predictions:

1. Condoleeza Rice is going to be the Secretary of State in the second Bush term.

2. Donna Rice is going to be an "advisor" to the Kerry campaign.

[Arrowhead1952]

Truely a dim bulb who has nearly burnt out.

His bulb is so dim he can't see well enough to know how burnt out he is.

He has to light a match to see if the bulb is burning

[KC Burke]

thank you both

[DaughterofEve]

A good way to get them is to go to other Freeper's Profiles and then Links, and sort thru...I have a decent collection so feel free to look.

[antivenom]

Well I have kKNOWN for years that there are "Misssing suitcase NUKES"....NOW I am the average joe blow with this knowledge ....THEREFORE...WHAT THE HELL CAN I DO WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE????????

Do I know WHERE to avoid....

DO I know HOW to prevent...

DO I know WHEN...

WHY don't the Repubs "turn this type of table of the DIMS!!! ASK these questions BACK, to those jackassess...

IT is all a "game of hindsight"...

[Howlin]

I'll be watching to see if ANYBODY says one word about that on the "talking head" shows.

[StriperSniper]

[Interpretation: I gotta go pee, so hurry up and answer.]

I'll second that!

[mtbopfuyn]

At no time did Clarke ask her to act on a plan.

[Solamente]

Was it Kerry, not Bush, who was inattentive and negligent about terrorist threats in early 2001? Let's check the record.

Here’s what the Bush administration was doing in May, 2001, based on suspicions of increased terrorist “chatter”:

“Forcefully rebutting Clarke's testimony Wednesday to the 9/11 commission, Rice called reporters to her West Wing office and said that on July 5, 2001 -- two months before the terrorist attacks -- she personally ordered Clarke to alert domestic agencies that they needed to be on alert for the possibility of a terror strike.”

“Rice said she did so because of a "threat spike" in U.S. intelligence. While the intelligence suggested al Qaeda attacks in the Persian Gulf region or Israel, Rice said she and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card decided to ask Clarke to take some precautions domestically.”

Now, contrast this with the “actions” of John F. Kerry, Senator from Massachusetts/Logan Airport:

“Former FAA security officials say the Massachusetts senator had the power to prevent at least the Boston hijackings and save the World Trade Center and thousands of lives, yet he failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his state's main airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings.

"He just did the Pontius Pilate thing and passed the buck" on back through the federal bureaucracy, said Brian Sullivan, a retired FAA special agent from the Boston area who in May 2001 personally warned Kerry that Logan was ripe for a "jihad" suicide operation possibly involving "a coordinated attack."

Rewind to May 6, 2001. That night, a Boston TV station (Fox-25) aired reporter Deborah Sherman's story on an undercover investigation at Logan that Sullivan and another retired agent helped set up.In nine of 10 tries, a crew got knives and other weapons through security checkpoints - including the very ones the 9/11 hijackers would later exploit.

The next day, Sullivan fired off a two-page letter to Kerry highlighting the systemic failures.

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More than 11 weeks later, Kerry finally replied to his well-informed and anxious constituent. "I have forwarded your tape to the Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General [DOT OIG]," he said in a brief July 24, 2001, letter, a copy of which I've obtained.

Yet Sullivan had made it clear in his letter that going to his old agency was a dead end. He and other agents had complained about security lapses for years and got nowhere. "The DOT OIG has become an ineffective overseer of the FAA," he told Kerry. Sullivan suggested he show the tape to peers on committees with FAA oversight. He even volunteered to testify before them.

But he never heard from Kerry again.

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But a Kerry aide said not to bother. "You're not a constituent," Elson was told just a few weeks before the hijackings. He went ballistic, warning that if Kerry didn't act soon he'd risk the lives of planeloads of his actual constituents. That warning now looks like prophecy: At least 82 Kerry constituents were murdered aboard American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175.