Lying Crooks!

Condoleezza Rice may have committed perjury before the 9/11 Commission. At a minimum,
her testimony was a convenient mishmash of half-truths and omissions which served to paint the White House as innocent bystanders as 9/11 unfolded. Certainly, her testimony omitted the fact that the two most senior intelligence officials in the nation delivered a stern warning regarding an impending terror attack two full months before 9/11. The Washington Post carried a story that described a desperate attempt by George Tenet and CIA counterterrorism chief Cofer Black to draw Rice's attention to the looming threat of al-Qaeda. Tenet and Black insisted on a meeting with Rice on July 10, 2001.

"Tenet had the NSA review all the intercepts," read the Post story. On June 30, a top-secret senior
executive intelligence brief contained an article headlined 'Bin Laden Threats Are Real.' Tenet hoped his meeting would shake Rice. He and Black had two main points. First, al-Qaeda was going to attack American interests, possibly in States... Second, this was a major foreign policy problem that needed to be addressed immediately. They needed to take action that moment to thwart bin Laden."

The meeting, according to Tenet and Black, went nowhere. "Tenet and Black felt they were not
getting through to Rice. She was polite, but they felt the brush-off," says Woodward in his new book.