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Even as the Democrat-media complex attempts to paint her as out to lunch on the al-Qaida threat, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice declined on Thursday to blame the Clinton administration for passing up one chance to arrest Osama bin Laden and several more to kill him. In portions of his Fox News Channel interview with Rice aired exclusively on his radio show, Sean Hannity quoted ex-President Clinton's own admission that he declined to accept an offer from Sudan to extradite bin Laden in 1996 "because we had no basis on which to hold him." "Doesn't that justify the claim...

March 25 — The White House may have sent a phalanx of top officials to Capitol Hill this week to be grilled by the Sept. 11 panel, but the one official who did not appear publicly has turned out to be the official the panel wanted most: Condoleezza Rice. As she prepares to leave her job at the end of the year, Ms. Rice, the president's national security adviser, now finds herself at the center of a political storm, furiously defending both the White House and her own reputation. But her effort to blunt the criticism by spending the week...

Under mounting pressure from Democrats about its response to the investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks, the White House offered Thursday to have Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, answer more questions from the panel. At the same time, President Bush forcefully denied accusations that he had ignored the severity of the threat from Al Qaeda. In announcing late Thursday that Ms. Rice would appear before the panel again but only in private and not under oath, the White House acted on a day when some Republicans said that Mr. Bush was being undercut by the perception that a senior...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Thursday asked the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to give national security adviser Condoleezza Rice another opportunity to talk privately with panel members. The White House said, in a letter to the commission chairman and vice chairman from counsel Alberto Gonzales, that such a session would allow her to clear up "a number of mischaracterizations of Dr. Rice's statements and positions." Rice still would not testify publicly before the panel, as the members and many relatives of victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks want. Gonzales wrote that is important that...

The White House is making an all out effort to counter criticism of President Bush's handling of the war on terrorism from a former top member of his national security team. Richard Clarke's criticism has clearly hit a raw nerve at the White House. And now, even the president is speaking out. Mr. Clarke, who served as White House counterterrorism coordinator until about a year ago, charges the president ignored the threat from al-Qaida prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks and instead was fixated on Iraq. The allegations first appeared in a new book that hit stores on Monday,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on Thursday sought a second private meeting with members of the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Members had complained about her refusal to testify about her role in the months before the attacks in this week's public hearings. Rice met for four hours in private with commissioners in February. The White House released a letter from White House counsel Alberto Gonzalez to the chairman and co-chairman of the commission, asking that Rice be given another opportunity to speak. "In light of yesterday's hearing in which there were a...

White House Asks Sept. 11 Panel Meet Again With National Security Adviser Mar 25, 2004 The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Thursday asked the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to give national security adviser Condoleezza Rice another opportunity to talk privately with panel members. The White House said, in a letter to the commission chairman and vice chairman from counsel Alberto Gonzales, that such a session would allow her to clear up "a number of mischaracterizations of Dr. Rice's statements and positions." Rice still would not testify publicly before the panel, as the...

<p>March 25, 2004 -- National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice yesterday responded fiercely to Richard Clarke's charges that fighting terror was not a top priority for President Bush - noting that the former White House aide's allegations are contradicted by his own earlier words. She also called his remarks about her "arrogant at its extreme."</p>

There was quite a bit of chatter in the Capitol on Wednesday about some unexpected fireworks flying at a ceremony honoring civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height after comic Bill Cosby snubbed National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Cosby decided to voice his opposition to the Bush administration’s foreign policy by refusing to sit next to Rice, as organizers had planned, at the event in which Height received the Congressional Gold Medal from President Bush and Hill leaders. “It’s too bad that Mr. Cosby couldn’t cross the partisan divide, especially at an event for a great civil rights leader,” griped one senior...

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...

Are you sitting down? Another ex-government official who was fired or demoted by Bush has written a book that ... is critical of Bush! Eureka! The latest offering is Richard Clarke's new CBS-Viacom book, "Against All Enemies," which gets only a 35 on "rate a record" because the words don't make sense and you can't dance to it. As long as we're investigating everything, how about investigating why some loser no one has ever heard of is getting so much press coverage for yet another "tell-all" book attacking the Bush administration? When an FBI agent with close, regular contact with...

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The Al-Qaida 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-Qaida threat. During the transition, President-elect Bush's national security team was briefed on the Clinton administration's efforts to deal with Al-Qaida. The seriousness of the threat was well understood by the president and his national security principals. In response to my request for a...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Major players in the Bush administration came out firing Monday to dispute the claims made by a former counterterrorism official in a new book critical of Bush's terrorism prevention efforts. National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice appeared on all five network morning shows saying, "Dick Clarke was counterterrorism czar for a long time with a lot of attacks on the United States. What he was doing was -- what they were doing apparently was not working. We wanted to do something different." Vice President Richard Cheney made an appearance on the Rush Limbaugh radio program, rare...

Ahmed Yassin's death is a signal victory for Israel and for the war against terrorism. He was the military and spiritual leader of the terror war against Israel, just as Osama bin Laden is, or was, the military and spiritual leader of the war against the West. The killing of Yassin by an IDF missile has spawned the usual flurry of claims that it was a futile and foolish act. Shinui ministers Yosef Lapid and Avraham Poraz voted against the hit, arguing that it was obviously justified but would not reduce terrorism. Yahad leader Yossi Beilin said, "The killing of...

WASHINGTON - The United States braced for a wave of potential retaliatory strikes by Hamas yesterday in the wake of Israel's assassination of the extremist Palestinian group's leader, a killing that provoked widespread furor in the Arab world. The White House struck a hard line against Hamas, expressing concern about Israel's deadly strike against militant leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, but stopping far short of directly condemning the killing. ``Let's remember that Hamas is a terrorist organization and that Sheik Yassin himself has been heavily involved in terrorism,'' Bush national security adviser Condoleezza Rice told CBS News. Urging restraint amid rapidly...

At 1:30 on a Wednesday afternoon, two weeks after receiving the nod as Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice walked into a room... Rice told him (Clarke) first, he said, that the dangers appeared to be greater than she had known. "Her second reaction was 'What are you going to do about it?'‚" Clarke said. ....... (Clinton info provided to Condi Rice:) One of those came in a handwritten note, covering less than a page. The lined paper had nothing on it but three names and three telephone numbers – the Pentagon's top career specialists on terrorism. ......... Rice, by...

<p>"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.</p>