[YaYa123]

I really admire her demeanor. Kean's questions are puff balls for her, giving her the chance to fully debunk the spinning attacks from Clarke and the left.

He has given her the chance to debunk the allegation that Bush was too quickly consumed with the desire to "get" Saddam. And she's doing it...in spades!

"The president wanted contingency plans for Iraq, in case they took advantage of us while we were going after Afghanistan, and in the event we found they were involved with 9=ll". Condi says, you can look at what we did to prove the point.

Condi doesn't remember the conversation Clarke recounted in his book about Bush, but she says "I'm quite certain the president never pushed anyone to go after Iraq.".

[r9etb]

I really admire her demeanor. Kean's questions are puff balls for her, giving her the chance to fully debunk the spinning attacks from Clarke and the left. He has given her the chance to debunk the allegation that Bush was too quickly consumed with the desire to "get" Saddam. And she's doing it...in spades!

An interesting dynamic, then. Sounds to me like the Commission may have the goods on Clarke, and they're getting something out in the open.

[cyncooper]

Rice: Nothing in this memo that warned of an attack on NY or DC and so on.

BV snottily (and I mean it, and don't say it idly) says "We agree there were no specifics".

(He was trying to imply there was, and that is clear)

The president was in Crawford at the time the PDB in August received. Was he alarmed or moved to act and meet with the CIA director or AG? Rice says she'll repeat when it was presented--and she points out she was not in Crawford but in communication, sometims via video conferencing. There was nothing actionable in this document. He was concerned and following.