White House spokesman Scott McClellan said later: "The president is sorry for what occurred and the pain it has caused." Asked why Bush had not apologized, McClellan said: "I'm saying it now for him." Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday: "We are deeply sorry for what has happened," while the commander of U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, Maj.-Gen. Geoffrey Miller, apologized Wednesday for "illegal or unauthorized acts" of American soldiers.