Reply #18: State Department Confirms Rice Met With Tenet on Terror Threat

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By Judy Mathewson
Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- ... State Department spokesman Sean McCormack disputed the characterization of the meeting in the book ``State of Denial'' by journalist Bob Woodward, saying the information Rice got ``was not new'' and didn't amount to an urgent warning.

``Rather, it was a good summary from the threat-reporting from the previous several weeks,'' McCormack said in a statement from Saudi Arabia where Rice is traveling.

Rice, who was President George W. Bush's national security adviser at the time, asked that the information be forwarded to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, according to McCormack ...

At Rice's request, the State Department's legal adviser, John Bellinger, researched the 2001 meeting today at the National Security Council archive while Rice aide Philip Zelikow researched the National Archives, McCormack's statement said ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aG2D.J.6m9rM&refer=home


So .. uh .. "wasn't new" cuz it was a few weeks old .. and it was so unimportant she had it forwarded to Ashy and Rummy ...

Sounds like Zelikov's purging the archives.