Rice “Brush-off?”
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Bob Woodward's new book "State of Denial" describes CIA officials worried that they did not get through to then-National Security Adviser Rice with an urgent warning about a possible Al Qaeda attack during a meeting two months before 9/11— saying Rice's reaction amounted to a "brush off."
Prominent Democratic member of the 9/11 Commission Richard Ben-Veniste was quoted in The New York Times Sunday as saying, "the meeting was never mentioned to us." Not only did then-CIA Director George Tenet brief the commission about the meeting, but that Rice "understood the gravity of what he was telling them."
It is not clear whether the original Times story was mistaken, or whether Ben-Veniste's account has changed. A State Department spokesman said yesterday Rice asked that the information be given to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Bob Woodward's new book "State of Denial" describes CIA officials worried that they did not get through to then-National Security Adviser Rice with an urgent warning about a possible Al Qaeda attack during a meeting two months before 9/11— saying Rice's reaction amounted to a "brush off."
Prominent Democratic member of the 9/11 Commission Richard Ben-Veniste was quoted in The New York Times Sunday as saying, "the meeting was never mentioned to us." Not only did then-CIA Director George Tenet brief the commission about the meeting, but that Rice "understood the gravity of what he was telling them."
It is not clear whether the original Times story was mistaken, or whether Ben-Veniste's account has changed. A State Department spokesman said yesterday Rice asked that the information be given to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft.
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