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To: Arthur Radley who wrote (260303)	6/1/2002 5:13:12 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

CONDOLEZZA RICE TRANSCRIPT: CBS Face the Nation Interview, May 19, 2002 TexasDude, Re: I've tried to find a copy of her press conference in which she apparently lied to the public. I don't have a transcript of the press conference, perhaps others on the thread can help us out with that. Here's a transcript of her sophistry on CBS's "Face the Nation" broadcast May 19, 2002: cbsnews.com <Copy> CBS: Let me pick up on what you said about the G-8 threat. You said last week, "I don't anyone could have predicted that these people would use a hijacked aircraft as a missile." Yet, the G-8 threat was specifically about that -- an aircraft packed with explosives. 1995, after the Manila Ramzi Yousef plot was uncovered, there was information that the FBI knew about somebody might be flying an aircraft into the CIA, the White House, the Pentagon. There was also a government report in 1999 that Al Qaeda might have used as a tactic -- and I know it was only an analytical informational report -- but might have used an aircraft as a weapon then. How could you not connect the dots, given all of the prior information? And not to suggest that you might be able to uncover what happened on September 11, but why didn't somebody say, "There's a pattern here"? RICE: There were people looking at the history of the tactics that Al Qaeda might use. This particular document that everybody has been referring to, the 1999 report, was an open-source document that said to smart people, all right, what might the terrorists do? There are lots of other things that the terrorists might do. Bombings, car bombings were other things that they might do. And so yes, people were trying to assess the broad range of tactics that Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups might use. That particular report, by the way, was talking about with high explosives, not what happened on September 11, when it was not a matter of high explosives. CBS: But it still comes down to, do you have something that is specific enough to act on? The G-8 is a good example, because we knew when, we knew the dates, we knew against whom, G-8 leadership, we knew where, Genoa. And as a result, the Italian government was able to shut down the airspace around the G-8 meeting for a period of time. Can you imagine, though, on the basis of extremely general musings about what they might try to do or what they were interested in doing, that you could somehow shut down civil aviation? Not possible. <End Copy> Here's a comment I made previously: Message 17519020 Senator Carl Levin is convinced that Condolezza Rice is lying to the public. So am I. -Ray