Rice Won't Testify

[Memnoch1207]

Rice, for her part, took to prime-time airwaves Sunday, renewing her claim of executive privilege.

“Nothing would be better, from my point of view, than to be able to testify,” Rice told CBS’ “60 Minutes.” “I would really like to do that. But there is an important principle involved here: It is a long-standing principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.”

It is me or does she not understand that she wouldn't be testifying before congress??? The commitee was created by Bush and is in no way an arm of the congress.

What is she thinking?

[plenderj]

Maybe she doesn't want to lie?

[NotLKH]

Perhaps the interviewer knew that, and immediately started to raise that point:

"Just a Minute Rice!"

Unfortunately it turned into one of those contagious laughter moments, and they just could not raise that point while keeping a straight face.

[Cander]

This whole thing is nothing but a bunch of pressure from the Democrats trying to tag the Bush administration with fault for 9/11 for political gain.

They passed off what they couldnt/wouldnt do in 8 years in office and needed to get the blame off them before the next election.

If al Qaeda was such a serious threat then, as they said they told the Bush administration, why didnt the Clinton administration do something about it? So they were able to send in troops(with UN approval. Go figure!) in the failed fiasco to capture Mohamed Farrah Aideed, but wouldn't do anything about a group they felt was a serious threat to national security even though they supposedly had plans and initiatives to get bin Laden?!

[Memnoch1207]

See, all it took was me posting this thread to change things!

In a reversal, the White House said Tuesday it has agreed to allow national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to testify in public and under oath before the Sept. 11, 2001 commission. In addition, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have agreed to testify in private before the entire commission, not just the two co-chairmen as earlier proposed, the White House said in a letter to the panel.

[Foxer]

What happened to the free camels and more ads??