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White House withholds Rice speech
(MSNBC News Services, April 06, 2004)
The White House has refused to provide the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with a speech that national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was to have delivered on the night of the attacks touting missile defense as a priority rather than al-Qaida, sources close to the commission said Tuesday. With Rice scheduled to publicly testify Thursday before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, the commission submitted a last-minute request for Rice's aborted Sept. 11 address, the sources told Reuters on condition of anonymity. But the White House has so far refused on the grounds that draft documents are confidential, the sources said. Trent Duffy, a spokesman for the White House, said only: "The White House is working with the commission to ensure that it has access to what it needs to do its job."

******But only what the WH deems it necessary for them to do their job, not what the commission thinks they need to do their job. After all, this IS an unbiased and independent commission, doncha know. But, that's just this old curmudgeon's opinion.********

posted by An Old Curmudgeon 8:41 AM