2006-10-02 06:34:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
No, she has selective memory, this is a problem with all repuglicans.
2006-10-02 06:38:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Read what she said:
The secretary of state was at her most expansive when discussing Woodward's claim that during a White House meeting on July 10, 2001, two months before the Sept. 11, attacks, she gave a polite "brush-off" to then-CIA Director George Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, Cofer Black, after the two men, alarmed by evidence of an impending terrorist attack on American soil, tried to "shake" Rice into immediate action against Usama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda terrorist network.
While claiming not to remember the session in question — "we'll have to check the records," she said, adding "I don't know that this meeting took place" — Rice declared flatly "it was not a meeting in which I was told that there was an impending attack and I refused to respond."
In perhaps her lengthiest extemporaneous remarks ever about the pre-9/11 period, Rice said the summer of 2001 was marked by a "steady stream of [intelligence] chatter about a potential attack" presumed to be targeting a foreign country: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, possibly Israel or Jordan, but "nothing about the United States."
Still, Rice said, because no one could rule out an attack on American soil, Bush administration officials were "constantly acting on the threat reporting" in that time frame. She said all concerned parties seemed to agree that an attack was imminent, but the target and date of execution remained frustratingly elusive.
She cited extensive "disruption operations" abroad, including stepped-up efforts to capture Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydeh; the redeployment of the Fifth Fleet "out of harm's way"; consultations by Tenet with security officials from 20 foreign countries; daily gatherings of the Counter-Terrorism Strategy Group, chaired by Richard A. Clarke; and a discreet phone call to Saudi leaders by Vice President Dick Cheney, seeking Riyadh's help in determining the time and place of an attack.
2006-10-02 17:43:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
She's a natural born liar
2006-10-02 13:40:46 · answer #3 · answered by brian2412 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I doubt it. I think that she has many sleepless nights; unless she has willingly accepted her role as token black and unrestructured Republican.
2006-10-02 13:40:36 · answer #4 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, she's always lied to secure her piece of the pie.
2006-10-02 13:36:26 · answer #5 · answered by cassandra 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so
2006-10-02 13:37:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anand 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋