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I was waiting for this to go up. We're about t-minus one hour from it (depending on how long Duke-Xavier goes, I guess). Too bad it's not going to be a long interview like Clarke had. I've noticed that 60 Minutes are not promoting this either. The commercial I just saw advertised the story on soccer phenom Freddy Adu, not the story on Rice or Pickering. I also discovered from the link referenced above that Rice spoke to them this morning and not yesterday as I'd heard would be the case before. Bill Kristol predicted this morning that Rice might...

President Bush met with CIA Director George Tenet every single day during the eight months he was president before the 9/11 attacks, National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice revealed on Friday, noting that the practice was a shift from the previous administration's policy. Appearing for an exclusive interview with nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity, Dr. Rice addressed a finding by the 9/11 Commission that President Clinton had ordered the CIA to capture but not kill Osama bin Laden. "There may have been some confusion [in the Clinton administration]," Dr. Rice told Hannity. "I do know that on our watch...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks will not relent in its pursuit of public testimony from the president's national security adviser but is unlikely to subpoena Condoleezza Rice, the panel's chairman said Sunday. The former chief counterterrorism adviser at the White House, who has criticized the Bush administration's preparedness for the attacks, said he would welcome the attempt by leading Republicans to declassify 2-year-old congressional testimony. The lawmakers hope to show discrepancies between Richard Clarke's recent attacks on the administration's terrorism policies with flattering statements he made as a White House aide. The White House...

Rumsfeld, Powell and Rice seek to defuse the charge that threats to U.S. were played down. The battle over Richard Clarke's allegations that the White House played down Al Qaeda's threat to the U.S. enters its second week today, with the former counterterrorism czar and top Bush administration officials scheduled to make the rounds of major talk shows. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld was booked to appear on "Fox News Sunday," while Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was scheduled to be interviewed on "Face the Nation." Clarke was making two stops — on "Meet the Press" and "Late...

<p>Presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry chastised national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on Saturday for refusing to testify publicly before the 9/11 commission and accused the Bush administration of conducting "character assassination" against people who say things the White House doesn't like.</p>

Kerry Slams White House Attack on Clarke 16 minutes ago By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. - John Kerry (news - web sites) said Saturday the White House is committing character assassination with its treatment of former counterterror chief Richard Clarke to avoid responding to questions about national security. AP Photo AP Photo Slideshow: John Kerry AP Campaign Video Roundup (AP Video) Latest headlines: · Kerry Slams White House Attack on Clarke AP - 16 minutes ago · Kerry to Have Minor Surgery on Shoulder AP - 50 minutes ago · President's Fund-Raising Trips Wind Down AP...

March 25th, 2004-Randall Robinson, who accompanied Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on his historic return trip back to the Caribbean, reveals that National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice is telling the Jamaican government if Aristide is not immediately expelled from the country and anything happens to American forces in Haiti, consequences would be exacted against Jamaica in full force by the U.S. [includes rush transcript. See below.] National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice has refused to appear before the 9-11 Commission to give sworn testimony. But she has been very busy on a different front: The situation in Haiti. Rice and other officials...

To an extent that, in my judgment, has no precedent in American history, the contemporary Democratic party has defined itself as a party of hate. The current frenzy over the self-contradictory and in some instances patently false claims of Richard Clarke has shown the Democrats at their most vituperative. A case in point is Paul Begala's hysterical attack on Condoleezza Rice earlier today on CNN's Crossfire. Begala said: [Dr. Rice] began this week with an op-ed in "The New York Times" [Ed.--actually, the Washington Post] in which she says among other things that there was no intelligence on a plot...

White House Trying to Explain Rice Policy Saturday March 27, 2004 3:31 PM By TERENCE HUNT AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) - Condoleezza Rice says the Bush administration has a good story to tell about fighting terrorism and she's pouring it out in television appearances, interviews and newspaper articles. The one place she won't talk is in public, under oath, before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. That is blossoming into a public relations nightmare. The White House finds itself in the awkward position of trying to explain why Rice, the national security adviser to...

  ONDON — Did the Bush administration, before the 9/11 attacks, fail to take terrorism seriously enough? At first the contention seems unlikely. Isn't this the most hawkish administration in living memory? Wasn't it President Bush who coined the phrase "war on terror"? Yet in the current hearings on the attacks — and in the controversy surrounding the new book by Richard A. Clarke, the administration's first counterterrorism chief — the words "neglect" and "failure" keep cropping up. And there is something to these accusations — although perhaps not in the sense that the people making them intend. The...

For the first time ever, the nation's top national security official has reviewed NewsMax.com's recording of ex-President Bill Clinton admitting he turned down an offer to have Osama bin Laden arrested in 1996. Appearing for an exclusive interview Friday on Sean Hannity's nationally synidcated radio broadcast, National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice listened to the recording of the ex-president during a Feb. 2002 speech where he detailed an offer from Sudan to the U.S. for bin Laden's extradition. Rice told Hannity that Clinton's decision to turn down bin Laden would fall within the purview of the Independent Commission Investigating the...

The Washington Post has a piece today taking apart Condoleezza Rice. And who would guess? It is by Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank, a co-byline signaling that the Bush administration will inevitably be in for a world of hurt. The duo hits on some genuine contradictions between what Rice and other administration officials have said. I heard Jeff Greenfield on Imus this morning saying something about how devastating this piece is for Rice. But, not surprisingly, it is not as bad for Rice as Pincus and Milbank make it sound. Here's my quick take on the major issues they raise....

CHARLIE BLACK, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: She's already been up there for four hours and she's going to go back for as long as they want. (CROSSTALK) BEGALA: But Dr. Rice has never testified under oath about this, Dr. Rice being the president's national security adviser. But she has written an op-ed. She began this week with an op-ed in "The New York Times" in which she says among other things that there was no intelligence on a plot to use airplanes. Now we have a former FBI translator who says that's false. She also said that the plan for al Qaeda...

Secretary General of NATO to travel to Washington for United States Ceremony marking the Accession of seven new NATO Members The Secretary General of NATO, Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, will be visiting Washington on Monday 29th March and attend the ceremony at the White House marking the accession of the seven new NATO countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania. During the visit he will be meeting with a number of senior officials, including President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Secretary of State Powell and National Security Adviser Rice. He will also meet with the Prime Ministers of...

Dr. Rice is scheduled for a live interview on today's Hannity radio program. Streaming link to WABC radio

WASHINGTON - Trying to blunt allegations the Bush administration mishandled terror threats before Sept. 11, the White House is offering to let President Bush (news - web sites)'s top national security aide meet privately for a second time with a federal panel investigating the terrorist attacks. The White House said in a letter late Thursday to the independent Sept. 11 commission that such a session would allow Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) to clear up "a number of mischaracterizations" of her statements and positions. Rice, who has spoken frequently and written about the administration's pre- and post-Sept. 11 strategy,...

<p>The White House has told the independent panel investigating the attacks of September 11, 2001, that Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, wants another private meeting with the commission.</p> <p>The request comes in the wake of two days of public hearings this week by the commission, during which Bush's anti-terrorism policies were sometimes criticized.</p>

US Rice To Conduct Interview With CBS' 60 Minutes NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--In addition to offering a second round of testimony from its National Security Adviser, the White House also has offered Condoleezza Rice to CBS's 60 Minutes program, the network's Web site reported Friday. CBS has accepted an offer for a sit-down with Rice and an interview has been set for Saturday to air on the 60 Minutes program on Sunday at 7 p.m. EST, according to the Web site. It was on the CBS program that former Bush administration counterterrorism official Richard Clarke first made public damaging comments...

[snip] At the same time, some of Rice's rebuttals of Clarke's broadside against Bush, which she delivered in a flurry of media interviews and statements rather than in testimony, contradicted other administration officials and her own previous statements. Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage contradicted Rice's claim that the White House had a strategy before 9/11 for military operations against al Qaeda and the Taliban; the CIA contradicted Rice's earlier assertion that Bush had requested a CIA briefing in the summer of 2001 because of elevated terrorist threats; and Rice's assertion this week that Bush told her on Sept....

<p>The White House yesterday asked the independent commission investigating the September 11 attacks to give National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice another opportunity to talk privately with panel members.</p> <p>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."</p>