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Certain in public, confused in private. That's our Condi-lie-zza!

Democratic commission member Richard Ben-Veniste disclosed this week that Rice had asked, in her private meetings with the commission, to revise a statement she made publicly that "I don't think anybody could have predicted that those people could have taken an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center . . . that they would try to use an airplane as a missile." Rice told the commission that she misspoke; the commission has received information that prior to Sept. 11, U.S. intelligence agencies and Clarke had talked about terrorists using airplanes as missiles.
(via WaPo)

Now we know why she doesn't want to testify in public—the sheer embarassment. Or under oath...

And hey—if Condi knew, did her boss know? He's been running round the country saying he didn't, so that means he did, right?

UPDATE Alert reader Sovreign Eye comments:

I've long wondered whether or not Rice is familiar with the Japanese aerial tactics employed during the battle of Okinawa.

But you don't understand! The airplanes that AQ used were really big ones. So it's different.

UPDATE Reading A1 has an excellent dissection of how that once great newspaper is butchering this story—and, for some strange reason, all the butchery goes aWol's way. I wonder why?