Memo contradicts Rice on 9/11 claim from Woodward Options

[riptide]

FYI: admins, this should be added to your "Latest News" page on the main web page (since it is the most recent 9/11 news)

Memo contradicts Rice on 9/11 claim from Woodward

From Tom Baldwin in Washington

"Condoleezza Rice was today at the heart of the US Administration’s escalating battle with a former CIA head and Washington’s most revered journalist over who should shoulder the blame for failing to anticipate the 9/11 attacks.

The State Department has admitted that a review of records has shown that George Tenet, the then CIA director, did brief Dr Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat from al-Qaeda.

This appears to undermine comments made by Dr Rice to reporters this week when she claimed not to remember any such meeting. She added that it was “incomprehensible” that she ignored terrorist threats two months before the September 11 attacks."


Has anyone here read Bob Woodward's book yet? From what I've read, and interviews with the author, I imagine that it is a real page turner!

"In State of Denial, Mr Rumsfeld is described as an “arrogant control freak whose micromanaging is almost comic”.

This post has been edited by riptide: Oct 16 2006, 04:12 PM