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04/07/2004 Archived Entry: "Soaring to new heights of inane secrecy"
Soaring to new heights of inane secrecy
Umm, guys, it's a speech. Aren't speeches supposed to be, like delivered in public??
The White House has refused to provide the panel investigating the September 11 attacks with a speech national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was to deliver on the night of the attacks, which touted missile defence as a priority rather than al-Qaeda, sources said today. With Rice slated to testify publicly before the commission tomorrow, the commission submitted a last-minute request for Rice's aborted September 11, 2001 address, the sources, who are close to the commission, said. But the White House has so far refused on the grounds that draft documents are confidential, the sources said.A spokesman for the commission would neither confirm nor deny the request, or the administration's response.
"The White House is working with the commission to ensure that it has access to what it needs to do its job," White House spokesman Trent Duffy said.
The Washington Post, citing former US officials who have seen the Rice speech, reported last week that the speech was designed to promote missile defence as the cornerstone of a new national security strategy, and contained no mention of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, or Islamic extremist groups.
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Charles
Posted by charles @ 04/07/2004 10:24 AM NY
This undelivered speech is a policy humiliation.
Of course it is "secret" now. They have to try to keep it secret that the "National Security Advisor" was living in the Reagan Administration, and had not progressed to this millenium.
Scorpio
Eccentricity
Posted by Scorpio @ 04/07/2004 02:02 PM NY
The harder they struggle to resist, the deeper into the spider's web they find themselves entangled. If they hadn't drawn the line in the sand themselves...if they hadn't rejected Condi testifying so loud and so early...if they would only submit the least little bit, they might catch the least bit of slack.
They won't. Later.
Posted by Daddy-O @ 04/07/2004 08:48 PM NY
