Rice won't admit 9/11-style attacks were predictable.(Ahead Of The Curve)

ITEM: During her press briefing on May 16, 2002, National Security Advisor 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."

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, on August 6th [2001], President Bush received a CIA briefing ...