Rice won't admit 9/11-style attacks were predictable.ITEM: During her press briefing on May 16, 2002, National Security Advisor A National Security Advisor serves as the chief advisor to a national government on matters of security. He or she is not usually a member of the cabinet but is usually a member of various military or security councils. Condoleezza Rice stated, "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would ... try to use an airplane as a missile...." She repeated this contention during her public testimony before the 9-11 Commission on April 7, 2004. ITEM: While giving public testimony before the 9-11 Commission on April 7, 2004, Condoleezza Rice reluctantly provided the actual title of the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB). The name of this classified document had supposedly never before been publicized, and the document had supposedly been seen previously only by commission members, not by the public. She also stated that this PDB "did not, in fact, warn of any coming attacks inside the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ." AHEAD OF THE CURVE: In our June 17, 2002 issue, THE NEW AMERICAN not only named this document, we cited a publicly available portion from its text that directly contradicts Miss Rice's testimony. We wrote: "While on vacation at his ranch in Crawford, Texas Crawford is a Waco suburb located in western McLennan County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 705. The 2005 census estimates Crawford's population at 789.[1] The town was incorporated on August 12, 1897. , on August 6th [2001], President Bush received a CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). briefing entitled 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' That report predicted an attempt by al-Qaeda terrorists to hijack civilian jetliners to 'bring the fight to America.'" After Rice testified, the White House released a redacted portion of this PDB amounting to less than two pages. But we now know that the entire document is 12 pages in length. If her claims about it are true, why hasn't it been released en toto? In that same June 2002 article entitled "Foreknowledge fore·knowl·edge n. Knowledge or awareness of something before its existence or occurrence; prescience. foreknowledge Noun knowledge of something before it actually happens Noun 1. and Failure," we noted that the Library of Congress had predicted in 1999 the very use of airplanes that Rice said no one could have foreseen. We quoted from the Library's 1999 report as follows: "Suicide bomber Noun 1. suicide bomber - a terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political (s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives ... into the Pentagon, the Pentagon, the, building accommodating the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Located in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., the Pentagon is a five-sided building consisting of five concentric pentagons connected to each other by corridors and covering headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, or the White House." The article further pointed to the existence of a 1994 "Pentagon-commissioned report," which concluded: "religious terrorists could hijack commercial airliners and crash them into the Pentagon or the White House." |
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