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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.

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.

LOL!!

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

As predictable as the night.

Donna Rice Hughes is fighting against pervasive internet porn, she's no longer involved with democrat politics. It's ancient history from two decades ago. I suppose she will vote to re-elect Bush/Cheney in November.

Condi would be an improvement over Colin as Sec of State.

Donna Rice

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.

Condi just boiled racist "congratulations for what you've done in life" Kerry like Uncle Ben's converted rice.