Are you guys kidding?
This is what she said in the article:
"What we did in the eight months was at least as aggressive as what the Clinton administration did in the preceding years," Rice said during a meeting with editors and reporters at the New York Post."
What
aggresive things? Details, please!
"The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn't do that is just flatly false — and I think the 9/11 commission understood that," she said.
The 9/11 Commission found they took no action from the Jan 01 Clarke memo or the Aug 01 NIE
I dont know how much clearer it can be....
If its been "all over the place".....point to something more that this article that demonstrates any specific actions taken by Bush/Rice in the first 8 months.
This report from Bob Woodward's new book is certainly as credible as anything Dick Morris says:
Quote:
The CIA'S top counterterrorism officials felt they could have killed Osama Bin Laden in the months before 9/11, but got the "brushoff" when they went to the Bush White House seeking the money and authorization.
CIA Director George Tenet and his counterterrorism head Cofer Black sought an urgent meeting with then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on July 10, 2001, writes Bob Woodward in his new book "State of Denial."
They went over top-secret intelligence pointing to an impending attack and "sounded the loudest warning" to the White House of a likely attack on the U.S. by Bin Laden.
Woodward writes that Rice was polite, but, "They felt the brushoff."
Tenet and Black were both frustrated.
full article: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...p-384345c.html
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