Rice lies to portray Clinton as liar

Rice has been a reliable attack dog for the White House, but found herself the object of some intense right-wing criticism after her feckless trip to the Middle East during the Israel-Lebanon violence. So maybe she's redoubling her efforts in transforming the role of Secretary of State to GOP campaign operative. I suppose it's lucky for her that the news business is about repeating quotes rather than analyzing their truthfulness these days, because a few minutes of research demonstrates the complete dishonesty of her latest attack-- which is another attempt to blame Clinton for 9/11.

A memo received by United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shortly after becoming National Security Advisor in 2001 directly contradicts statements she made to reporters yesterday, Raw Story has learned.

"We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda," Rice told a reporter for the New York Post on Monday. "Big pieces were missing," Rice added, "like an approach to Pakistan that might work, because without Pakistan you weren't going to get Afghanistan." (. . .)

However, Raw Story has found that just five days after President George W. Bush was sworn into office, a memo from counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke to Rice included the 2000 document, "Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist Networks of al-Qida: Status and Prospects." This document devotes over 2 of its 13 pages of material to specifically addressing strategies for securing Pakistan's cooperation in airstrikes against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

But what else would you expect from a woman who claims that the infamous "Bin Laden determined to attack inside the United States" was a 'historical document'? It's common knowledge (at least to those who go outside the mainstream media for their news) that Dick Cheney's terrorism task force never met before 9/11, in spite of warnings from the departing administration. But the press is still equating objective reporting with he-said/she-said stenography, and the public is stuck with it.