This sure isn't a way to defend the claims in Woodward's new book:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she cannot recall then-CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al-Qaida attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two months before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
"What I am quite certain of is that I would remember if I was told, as this account apparently says, that there was about to be an attack in the United States, and the idea that I would somehow have ignored that I find incomprehensible," Rice said.
Rice was President Bush's national security adviser in 2001, when Bob Woodward's book "State of Denial" outlines a July 10 meeting among Rice, Tenet and the CIA's top counterterror officer.
"I don't know that this meeting took place, but what I really don't know, what I'm quite certain of, is that it was not a meeting in which I was told there was an impending attack and I refused to respond," Rice said.
Way to try and spin it there Condi. The problem is the American people already know you are a liar (mushroom clouds ring a bell?). I am sure that she remembers damn good and well what happened. This is just her defense (ie. Scooter Libby defense).
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Condi cannot now contradict a "Medal of Freedom" recipient like George Tenet. She has no such medal and therefore cannot be, or have been, as great a service to America as George Tenet and she should just admit it. Also, after not one, but two books written by Woodward received rave reviews from bush himself, it is rude for Condi to question Woodward's stellar reputation, integrity, and honesty that the president himself has ascribed to Woodward.
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