April 7, 2004

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Rice Lies, "Revises" Her Lies, And Then Repeats the Same Original Lies Again. This is Standard Procedure in the Bush Administration. We Have Entered Some Sort of Orwellian Parallel Universe.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

Provided by David Sirota of the Center for American Progress:

Here are two absolutely CRITICAL points to watch for when Condoleezza Rice testifies before the 9/11 Commission on Thursday. As of Wednesday, Rice and the White House still appear insistent on spreading these two clear lies:

CLAIM #1: "In four hours of private discussions with the commission in January, Ms. Rice was asked about statements she made in 2001 and 2002 that 'we could not have imagined' that terrorists would use aircraft as weapons by piloting them into buildings. She told the commission that she regretted those comments." - NY Times, 4/6/04

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/07/politics/07PANE.html

FACT: Even after telling the 9/11 Commission in January of 2004 she regretted her 2002 denials, Rice proceeded to tell the exact same lie just three months later in a March 22, 2004 Washington Post op-ed. In the piece, she again falsely claimed "we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles."

CLAIM #2: "Rice told the commission in the private session that she should have said, 'I could not have imagined," according to one official familiar with the testimony, making it clear that some in the intelligence community knew about those threats but that she did not. 'Information about possible use of airplanes as missiles to destroy buildings was not briefed to her prior to that statement in May 2002,' Mr. McCormack said." - NY Times, 4/6/04

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/07/politics/07PANE.html

FACT: Even if Rice missed all 12 previous intelligence reports noting "that terrorists might use airplanes as weapons," it is impossible for Rice to claim she had no knowledge of such a plot, considering she accompanied the President to the 2001 G-8 Summit in Genoa, where she and the Administration were explicitly warned that "Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill President Bush and other leaders by crashing an airliner" into the summit. - LA Times, 9/27/01; NY Times, 4/4/04

Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092701genoa.story

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

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