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.

[Howlin]

She did.

[georgejr]

Keep freepin the Condi poll on MSNBC. We are up to 42 percent. Thats a gain of 10 in the last hour!!

[Numbers Guy]

One of them just said "Ashcroft" and a bunch of other Pentagon,blah blah, blah people were warned not to fly on Sept. 11

That's actually good. Even liberal media types can't buy into that sort of crap without sounding insane, so it makes the whole "9/11 widows disagree with Rice" propaganda much less potent.

[Mr. Silverback]

So I have to ask you, StriperSniper, are you the President? ;)

He can't be. The Prez doesn't drink anymore. But who knows, maybe they'll meet up at the fishin' hole.

[MEG33]

911 Citizens Committee or some such..taking credit for putting witnesses under oath..and saying all CIA people had "minders" when they testified..everyone seems to have"minders".It was all a conspiracy...

[mass55th]

As I was reading Lemann's article about Condi's piano expertise, the thought came into my head how great it would be to hear her and Fox News Channel's Lorne Green play together.

[Cboldt]

Chrissy saying AGAIN it's interesting that Condi mentioned that Rummy and Paul Wolfowitz wanted to go after Iraq when we were attacked on 9/11

Condi said when Bush asked all around the table, on 9/15, where to go, ALL of his advisors said Afgahnistan. Matthews is a a partisan hack.

[Howlin]

Did they actually say that?

[Carolinamom]

I don't CARE what Kristen thinks. I KNOW what I think. This widows group do NOT represent all the victims although they seem to think they do. Professional widows?

[Exit148]

I can't watch Matthews and those women. He puts Ben Viniste up as the end all of correct questioning, and the women are nodding.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I didn't hear it at all. I'm a cube-dweller. Deaf and blind, as it were. Why are you asking me?

Whoops, my mistake, I should have known your status and location.

[JFC]

I left my message.. that this 9-11 commission is a fraud and they are trying to blame anyone but the ones who flew into the buildings on 9-11. What a disgrace!

[Mo1]

Patty Casazza mentioning a treat of the G-8 meeting in Italy and how the President and Condi knew of the threats there and how could anyone think those threats couldn't be carried to the US

Chrissy bringing up the Memo AGAIN .. now playing a clip of Ben Vesti asking his question to Condi

Lori Van Auken says they KNEW the title of the memo for some time now

[LubyGee]

And I thank you for your service!

[Brytani]

Of course they were warned, which is why Ted Olson, a ranking member of the Bush Administration, allowed his wife to fly that day, right?

These witches need to either tighten or loosen their tin foil hats.

[Numbers Guy]

Barbara Olson was on one of those planes. Looks like if this is true, her husband would have been warned wouldn't he?

You would think so, but it was just a sinister attempt by the Bush people to cover their own tracks. You see, the Bush people knew that a couple years from now some of these widows would come forward and find out that Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, and so forth were forewarned. So they had to sacrifice somebody to give them a cover, and Barbara Olson drew the short straw.

[/sarcasm] . . . okay, I feel like I need to take a long hot shower after typing that piece of sarcasm.

[TexasCajun]

KERREY: Why didn't we swat that fly?

RICE: I believe that there's a question of whether or not you respond in a tactical sense or whether you respond in a strategic sense; whether or not you decide that you're going to respond to every attack with minimal use of military force and go after every _ on a kind of tit-for-tat basis.

By the way, in that memo, Dick Clarke talks about not doing this tit-for-tat, doing this on the time of our choosing.

I'm aware, Mr. Kerrey, of a speech that you gave at that time that said that perhaps the best thing that we could do to respond to the Cole and to the memories was to do something about the threat of Saddam Hussein.

That's a strategic view ...

(APPLAUSE)

And we took a strategic view. We didn't take a tactical view. I mean, it was really _ quite frankly, I was blown away when I read the speech, because it's a brilliant speech. It talks about really ...

(LAUGHTER)

[Mo1]

Kristen Breitweiser is blaming Condi for 9/11

[beaversmom]

I noticed that too. I really really hate these #@%**!!.