Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Weekly Review (Harpers.org)

Rice acknowledged that President Bush had received a classified CIA briefing on August 6, 2001, entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States," though she characterized the report as "historical information based on old reporting." She also acknowledged that the report mentioned the existence of Al Qaeda sleeper cells in the United States but "there was no recommendation that we do something about this." Rice also admitted that Richard Clarke, whose book on the Bush Administration's antiterrorism failures prompted her public testimony, sent her a memo in January 2001 in which he mentioned sleeper cells. Again, Rice said, "there was no mention or recommendation of anything that needs to be done about them."

OK, let me get this straight. You WOULD have done something if they'd given you a plan of action...i guess because that's not your job...you know, coming up with plans...? gotcha.

OK, next please. i think we're done here.

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