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To: stockman_scott who wrote (23584)	7/27/2003 4:38:59 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 89467

O'neill tried to tell us that the U.S. government protected Saudi interests at our terrible expense, and the joint congressional committee report -- whose chapter on the kingdom was redacted at the insistence of the Bush administration -- posthumously proves O'Neill's point. I had forgotten about him. In a May 16, 2002, briefing for reporters, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said the PDB was a historical look at bin Laden's methods dating to 1997. She characterized the briefing as an 'analytic report' that summed up bin Laden's methods of operation. 'It was not a warning,' she said. "There was no specific time or place mentioned.'" Given Rice's diminished reputation for candor and accuracy, it's impossible to take her word for what it says. But as Priest reports, the administration cited an old and controversial phrase to maintain its secrecy I guess she had to lie to keep her job.