From the ‘Let There Be More Bullshit Files’: Condoleezza Rice Says She’s Constitutionally Barred From Testifying

White House allies and Republicans investigating the Sept. 11 attacks pressed Sunday to hear open testimony from national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, with one commissioner calling her refusal a “political blunder of the first order.”

Rice said in a TV interview that she wants to meet with the families of the Sept. 11 victims because she knows they are disappointed she cannot testify publicly. “Nothing would be better … than to be able to testify,” Rice told CBS’s “60 Minutes.”

President Bush, spending a long weekend on his Texas ranch, gave no ground, and several aides said he will not change his mind on letting Rice testify. But Bush sent her and other top administration officials out for television interviews to rebut fresh attacks on the way his administration has handled the threat of terrorism.

Sharpening his criticism, former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke said President Clinton was more aggressive than Bush in trying to confront al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden’s organization…{{link http://sandiego.cox.net/cci/portal/_pagr/127/_pa.127/669?view=article&id=D81JMTTO0/ MORE}}

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