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From: Suma	2/11/2005 2:48:22 PM
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INTEL -- RICE RECEIVED 'URGENT' AL QAEDA WARNING: Eight months before the Sept. 11 attacks, and days after the Bush administration first took office, then-White House counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke issued a memo to then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice describing the "urgent need" for "a principals-level review on the al-Qaeda network." (http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,12216311%255E401,00.html) A newly released memo seriously undermines Rice's claim in a 3/22/04 column in the Washington Post that "No al-Qaeda threat was turned over to the new administration." Also, a previously undisclosed 9/11 Commission report released yesterday showed federal aviation officials received dozens of warnings before the Sept. 11 attacks about Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, including some that mentioned airline hijackings or suicide attacks (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/politics/10terror.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=) . Former members of the Commission and families of the 9/11 victims are pushing a reluctant White House to release the entire classified 9/11 Commission (http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/11/news/panel.html) report. CORRUPTION -- FOLLOW THE HOUSE LEADER: Texas representatives eager to gut the state's ethics guidelines are said to be following in the footsteps of the master -- House Majority Leader Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX). In what watchdogs call "a junior version" of DeLay's efforts in Washington (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2004/11/18/coddling_tom_delay/) , a veteran state GOP lawmaker this week filed a bill that would give the Texas Ethics Commission the power to prohibit a district attorney from continuing an ethics inquiry (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-ethics11feb11,1,7321903.story?coll=la-headlines-nation) if the Ethics Commission did not agree that charges were warranted. Among the politicians who appoint Ethics Commission members is state House Speaker Tom Craddick (R). According to the Los Angeles Times, Craddick also happens to be a target of the fundraising investigation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Delay#Controversy) by District Attorney Ronnie Earle into whether political and business groups with ties to Rep. DeLay illegally financed the campaigns of 22 Republican House candidates in 2002. Earle called the bill "a slap in the face to the public."

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