"A Question For Condi" -- My Article @ Common Dreams

[RedSock]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0406-11.htm

Tuesday, April 6, 2004
A Question for Condi
By Allan Wood

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will testify before the 9/11 Commission - on national television and under oath - this Thursday, April 8. Most of the questions will focus on the apparent contradictions between what she has said since September 11, 2001 and the public testimony given recently by former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke.

Rice should also be asked about what she did on the morning of 9/11. Under its agreement with the White House, in order to have Rice testify, the Commission is forbidden to ask any administration official to testify in any future public hearings. So if any of the 10 Commission members wants any White House official to speak to the country about what happened on 9/11, he or she better ask those questions on Thursday.

Here is one of mine:

We do not know if George W. Bush knew of the first crash upon his arrival at the Emma Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, shortly before 9:00 am on September 11. Some reports say he was informed while in his motorcade. We do know that when he got to the school, he was told there was a urgent phone call from Rice. ...

When Condoleezza Rice heard of the first hijacked plane - Boston air traffic controllers were treating it as a hijacking as early as 8:13 a.m. - 33 minutes before it crashed - how could she not have known that this was probably the attack she had been repeatedly warned about?

So what did Rice tell Bush? From the scraps that have been reported, it looks like she told him the first crash was merely an accident and he should go ahead with his photo-op. I want to know why the Commander-in-Chief was allowed to conduct a 20-minute reading session with a group of second-graders while the country was in the midst of a horrific terrorist attack.

The reports we have been told make absolutely no sense. In fact, there really is no "official story" of what happened on 9/11, because all of the accounts flatly contradict each other. And no one in the mainstream media has yet seen fit to demand a coherent explanation. Perhaps the Commission can start that search with its questioning of Condoleezza Rice.

[RedSock]

1. kicking myself (eom)

[IrateCitizen]

2. Good article -- it raises some important questions.

Most importantly, just what in the hell were they really doing on that day?

[mopaul]

3. she's a faithful, loyal slave

and will take the heat rather than let her masters take it. she will fall on her sword, and they will abandon her if it gets too heavy. they always eat their own, and they ultimately fuck over anyone who is no longer useful. when you go to work for the royal bush family, you sign an oath of loyalty to the death. condi sold her soul for gold years ago, and will do a fine job of covering for her masters. i too suspect she'll apologize, with qualifiers.

[seemslikeadream]

4. and she's mean too!

Congrats RedSock excellent