**Official** Condoleezza Rice - 9/11 Testimony Thread (CkG-Approved)

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PELarson

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Originally posted by: conjur
Like this, CkG?


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Since you started the thread you will have to stay awake all night bumping it up until the testimony starts!:D:evil:
 
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conjur

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Could she be any more nervous?

Take a few deep breaths, Condi...you'll be ok. ;)
 
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conjur

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Every channel!


And she just confirmed Clarke's statements on the timeline of the development of the new strategy.
 
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Originally posted by: conjur
Every channel!


And she just confirmed Clarke's statements on the timeline of the development of the new strategy.
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Don't get your hopes up. When all is said and done I GUARANTEE that you won't get anything of substance from her in this meeting.
 
Hayabusa Rider

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As an aside, I am more interested in why after 9/11 Saddam took a higher priority than Bin Laden. The whys and hows of that is more important IMO. Never see it happen with a Rep congress though
 
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Originally posted by: Ilmater
Originally posted by: conjur
Every channel!


And she just confirmed Clarke's statements on the timeline of the development of the new strategy.
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Don't get your hopes up. When all is said and done I GUARANTEE that you won't get anything of substance from her in this meeting.
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She also confirmed Clarke's statements that there were problems in getting law enforcement, such as FBI, to share information amongst everyone.
 
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Good quote:

The terrorists were at war with us, but we were not yet at war with them. For more than 20 years, the terrorist threat gathered, and America's response across several administrations of both parties was insufficient. Historically, democratic societies have been slow to react to gathering threats, tending instead to wait to confront threats until they are too dangerous to ignore or until it is too late. Despite the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 and continued German harassment of American shipping, the United States did not enter the First World War until two years later. Despite Nazi Germany's repeated violations of the Versailles Treaty and its string of provocations throughout the mid-1930s, the Western democracies did not take action until 1939. The U.S. Government did not act against the growing threat from Imperial Japan until the threat became all too evident at Pearl Harbor. And, tragically, for all the language of war spoken before September 11th, this country simply was not on a war footing
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Some other good quotes:
The President-elect and I were briefed by George Tenet on terrorism and on the al-Qaida network. Members of Sandy Berger's NSC staff briefed me, along with other members of the new national security team, on counterterrorism and al-Qaida. This briefing lasted about one hour, and it reviewed the Clinton Administration's counterterrorism approach and the various counterterrorism activities then underway.
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That Clarke "She never heard of Al-Qaida" quote comes to mind..

From January 20 through September 10, the President received at these daily meetings more than 40 briefing items on al-Qaida, and 13 of these were in response to questions he or his top advisers had posed.
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This new strategy was developed over the Spring and Summer of 2001, and was approved by the President's senior national security officials on September 4. It was the very first major national security policy directive of the Bush Administration - - not Russia, not missile defense, not Iraq, but the elimination of al-Qaida.
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emphasis added
 
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Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: Ilmater
Originally posted by: conjur
Every channel!


And she just confirmed Clarke's statements on the timeline of the development of the new strategy.
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Don't get your hopes up. When all is said and done I GUARANTEE that you won't get anything of substance from her in this meeting.
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She also confirmed Clarke's statements that there were problems in getting law enforcement, such as FBI, to share information amongst everyone.
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That's not exactly breaking news and we didn't need Clarke to say that. It's been common knowledge for years.
 
Hayabusa Rider

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Can't fault her on being nervous. It's not like anyone is looking at her :p

Well, she got off easy there. It's going to get harder though. Interesting question about Bush bringing up Iraq. Look for more about that later maybe?
 
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No stumbles? Her voice broke at least 2-3 times in her reading of her speech. She stumbled a couple of words, too.
 
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Her favorite word is 'Um'
Her second favorite is 'Ah'
Her third is 'Er'.

He is trying her best to not make Bush appear in a bad light.

Question of the day: Will she fall on the sword for him ?
 
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Originally posted by: ThePresence
That's not exactly breaking news and we didn't need Clarke to say that. It's been common knowledge for years.
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EXACTLY! I think a few of you in here are missing something: just because Clarke said something doesn't make it newsworthy. Nor does Condi's confirmation of anything make it newsworthy. It has to be something that people DIDN'T know in the first place.

When she confirms Clarke's assertion that Bush didn't do enough to combat terrorism, THEN come in here and post excitedly.
 
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