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WASHINGTON - The White House is disputing assertions by President Bush's former counterterrorism coordinator that the administration failed to recognize the risk of an attack by al-Qaida in the months leading up to Sept. 11, 2001. National security deputies worked diligently between March and September 2001 to develop a strategy to attack the terror network, one that was completed and ready for Bush's approval a week before the suicide airliner hijackings, the White House said in a statement Sunday. It said the president told national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) early in his administration he was "'tired...

Condi Rice was just interviewed on Fox'N Friends and she did a slam-dunk on Richard Clarke. She properly noted that he had been Counter-Terrorism Czar for a number of years in the Clinton Administration and had plenty of opportunity to develop strategies to confront Al Qaeda which he (and that Administration) never pursued. She acknowledged that Clarke had a number of "ideas" about confronting and combatting terrorism -- many of which the Bush Administration adopted. But they were a set of "ideas" not a comprehensive strategy which President Bush was looking for. Typical Condi performance: flawless.

The al Qaeda terrorist network posed a threat to the United States for almost a decade before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Throughout that period -- during the eight years of the Clinton administration and the first eight months of the Bush administration prior to Sept. 11 -- the U.S. government worked hard to counter the al Qaeda threat. During the transition, President-elect Bush's national security team was briefed on the Clinton administration's efforts to deal with al Qaeda. The seriousness of the threat was well understood by the president and his national security principals. In response to my...

The White House late Sunday denied charges of a former anti-terror adviser that President Bush was not properly focused on the threat of al-Qaida. As CBS "60 Minutes" program was featuring former adviser Richard Clarke's accusations, contained in a new book, that Bush ignored warnings about al-Qaida but after the Sept. 11 attacks was eager to link Iraq and the terrorist organization, the White House offered a number of rebuttals. Bush specifically told National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice that he was "tired of swatting flies" and wanted to go on the offense against al-Qaida, the White House said. White House...

Whether al Qaeda's second-in-command is, indeed, surrounded in a firefight near the Afghanistan border in Pakistan remains unknown, the president's national security advisor said in television interviews today. "We'll just have to wait and see" whether Osama bin Laden associate Ayman al- Zawahiri is cornered, Condoleezza Rice said. Rice appeared on the CBS "Early Morning Show," NBC's "Today," and ABC's "Good Morning America." She said she could not confirm media reports that have swarmed the country that Zawahiri is trapped and possibly wounded. "We are also depending on reports that are unconfirmed," she explained. While there "clearly is a fierce...

The Bush administration's part in the rude removal of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide confirmed many critics' view of America as a rogue power willing to trash any international norm to get its way. This tarnished U.S. image is one of the more striking changes wrought by the Bush administration. But another, less noticed change has been the way the administration also has altered the image of African-Americans. Through the skillful use of National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell, two blacks with impeccable resumes, the administration has managed to project a progressive facade while pursuing policies...

It isn't clear who was behind the brutal attack in Spain that killed 200 and wounded more than 1,400 people, but National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said today that in the global war on terrorism, this is just more evidence of the lengths to which terrorists will go to try to intimidate free people. In an appearance today on NBC's "Meet the Press" with commentator Tim Russert, Rice said Spanish authorities still suspect the Basque terrorist group ETA in the bombings, but acknowledge it might have been foreign terrorists such as al Qaeda. "We have offered to do everything that...

The Talk Shows Sunday, March14th, 2004 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Colin Powell. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): National security adviser Condoleezza Rice; former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. THIS WEEK (ABC): Secretary of State Colin Powell. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld; Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi Governing Council member; Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.; Richard Perle, former assistant defense secretary; Ken Pollack, former CIA analyst; author Peter Bergen; retired Gen. George Joulwan, former...

<p>National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice says she supports "soft affirmative action," but that it should never be associated with "lower expectations" or "lower standards" for blacks and women.</p> <p>"When people assume blacks or women are less capable, and, therefore say, 'lower the standards,' that's the killer. It's the worst thing you can do to anyone," Miss Rice, who is black, said in a lengthy television interview on Armstrong Williams' show "On Point."</p>

Remarks by National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice to the Reagan Lecture The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum Simi Valley, California February 26, 2004, as Delivered DR. RICE: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very, very much for that wonderful introduction and that terrific introduction. In fact, I was supposed to be here a couple of months ago and it was because of one of those telephone calls in the middle of the night that I didn't make it. That was one that told us that, in fact, we had gotten Saddam Hussein. (Applause.) And Mrs. Reagan and I agreed...

New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com Condi may jilt George By THOMAS M. DeFRANK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF Sunday, February 8th, 2004 WASHINGTON - Condoleezza Rice is supposed to be a slam dunk for secretary of state in a second Bush administration. But she may do the unthinkable and just say no. Friends and colleagues of the national security adviser report that the 49-year-old Rice is exhausted, approaching burnout and aching to return to her idyllic previous life as a tenured professor at Stanford. "I would be surprised if she stays in government at all," one well-placed source told...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The commission reviewing the Sept. 11 attacks met with President Bush's national security adviser Saturday in an interview one commissioner described as cooperative and productive. Condoleezza Rice met with the commission privately for several hours Saturday at the White House to discuss what the administration knew before the catastrophe, said Timothy Roemer, a former Democratic congressman from Indiana. He declined to give details of the meeting. "I thought the tone and level of cooperation and the exchange was productive," Roemer said. But he added, "I strongly underscore and underline the need" to have Rice and Sandy Berger,...

<p>WASHINGTON — The commission reviewing the Sept. 11 attacks is hearing from President Bush's national security adviser as it tries to determine what the government could have done to prevent the terrorist strikes.</p> <p>Condoleezza Rice (search) was to meet with the commission Saturday at the White House. Senior administration officials said before the session that Rice would be open and cooperative as she can and would work with the commission as long as needed. Rice is the top administration official to go before the commission.</p>

Condoleezza Rice is a "true illiterate," said a patronizing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. This Marxist thug added that he had asked his comrade Cuban dictator Fidel Castro to mail America’s National Security Advisor samples of Cuban books now being used to teach Venezuelan children literacy to “see if she learns to respect the dignity of the people and learns a bit about us." Apparently President Chavez is both a racist and a puny macho sexist to make such stupid remarks. His stunted manhood is threatened by criticism from this powerful woman. Condoleezza Rice, who recently called on Chavez to accept...

9/11 widow Ellen Mariani(Derry, N.H.) says George W. Bush is a gangster. We talk to her and her lawyer Philip J. Berg: Ellen Mariani last saw her husband Louis Neil early on the morning of September 11, 2001, at Logan Airport, where they were taking different flights to Los Angeles for a daughter’s wedding. He hadn’t gotten his tickets until the last minute, and couldn’t get on her flight, but there were seats open on Flight 175. Neil Mariani died when that plane crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center, and after rejecting a settlement offer of...

<p>WASHINGTON -- President Bush's national security adviser yesterday acknowledged there may have been flaws in prewar intelligence about Iraq but brushed aside calls for an independent investigation into the matter.</p> <p>"I think that what we have is evidence that there are differences between what we knew going in and what we found on the ground," Condoleezza Rice told CBS.</p>

WASHINGTON – He did it again, but this time on national TV. Aaron McGruder, a black syndicated cartoonist who's getting his own prime-time TV series on Fox, called National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice "a murderer" for her role in the Iraq war. He made the remark as a guest on the nationally syndicated TV show "America's Black Forum," hosted by syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Juan Williams. The creator of the popular "Boondocks" comic strip reportedly caused some discomfort at an anniversary dinner for the Nation magazine here last month when he told the mostly anti-war audience, "I've met...

Many people say Dr. Condoleezza Rice could be the best candidate to win in 2008. She could be the best option to defeat Hillary. Biography of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor. Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001. In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members...

CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dismissed US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) as a "true illiterate" for accusing him of not playing a constructive role in Latin America. AFP/File Photo   Chavez said he asked Cuban leader Fidel Castro (news - web sites) to mail to Rice samples of books that Venezuela is using, with Cuban support, for literacy education, to "see if she learns to respect the dignity of the people and learns a bit about us." Speaking at an official event in Caracas, Chavez said that Rice "fired her unworthy artillery against...

Rice: No Evidence Iraq Moved WMD to Syria WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States has no credible evidence that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria early last year before the U.S.-led war that drove Saddam Hussein from power, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Friday. Rice said, ``Any indication that something like that happened would be a very serious matter. ``But I want to be very clear: we don't, at this point, have any indications that I would consider credible and firm that that has taken place, but we will tie down every lead,'' she said at a...