EMAIL DETAILS

See below comments from Condi Rice……didn’t Al Qaeda attack the World Trade Center ten years before when they tried to blow up the garage?!? How can she say we hadn’t been attacked since 1812!?!

-----------

Rice, who was National Security Adviser at the time of the attacks, did, however, say she personally would "plead guilty" to not having imagined terrorists would use passenger aircraft as weapons.

"Yes, maybe there was a lack of imagination to imagine a group of terrorists were going to hijack airplanes and not drive them to the ground and demand a ransom, but use them as missiles against our cities," she said of her time in the White House before the attacks. "I plead guilty to a lack of imagining exactly that."

But she defended Bush: "The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it. Really? Do you think any president of the United States, if he had even an inkling there was going to be an attack, they wouldn’t have moved heaven and earth to try to stop it?" she said.

"The fact is there was chatter, in July and August, about terrorist activity. It was just that, chatter," Rice added. "And most of the chatter we thought, and the CIA thought, was about a possible attack in Jordan or in Saudi Arabia or abroad. The U.S. had no systems in place for homeland defense. We hadn’t been attacked on our territory since the war of 1812.

"And so the president of the United States would have done anything to stop it. He didn't know enough. He didn’t have good enough intelligence to stop it."


Eric D. Schwerin
Rosemont Seneca Advisors, LLC
1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Suite 705
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 333-1880
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.com <x-msg://59/eschwerin@obblaw.com>
P Consider the environment before printing this email.