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To: Grainne who wrote (89142)	11/22/2004 10:20:01 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

My favorite little bit on Rice was from nytimes.com : But the assertion has been questioned as a result of the commission's digging. After its most heated showdown with the Bush administration over access to classified information, the commission pressured the White House to declassify and make public a special intelligence briefing that had been presented to the president at his Texas ranch on Aug. 6, 2001, a month before the attacks. The existence of the document - but not its detailed contents - had been known since 2002, when the White House confirmed news reports that Mr. Bush had received an intelligence report before Sept. 11 warning of the possibility that Al Qaeda might hijack American passenger planes. In testimony this April to the Sept. 11 commission, before the report was made public, Ms. Rice insisted that it was "historical." "It did not, in fact, warn of attacks inside the United States," she testified. "It was historical information based on old reporting. There was no new threat information.'' But there were gasps in the audience in the hearing room when she disclosed the name of the two-page briefing paper: "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in U.S." "Historical information", indeed. The sad thing about Rice, she's probably about the best appointment we could possibly get from W for State. Past alternatives when the neocons were gunning for Powell included Wolfowitz and Gingrich.