http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4584265/

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Current National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice responded to Clarke’s
assertions about the Bush administration’s apparent lack of focus on
terrorism in an editorial in the Washington Post on Monday saying that
the threat from al-Qaida did not emerge with the Bush Administration.
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Rice has already spent four hours testifying in private with the
Commission, but has refused to testify publicly exerting executive
privilege. Some Democratic commissioners find Rice’s lack of public
testimony disturbing and plan to raise it publicly this week.

"The Commission is very disappointed that the administration has not
allowed Dr. Rice to testify in public,” said Commissioner Richard
Ben-Veniste, a Democrat and former Watergate prosecutor. “She’s appeared
everyplace else except the corner grocery,” he said. “Why she would not
appear before the Commission charged with investigating the facts of
9/11 is beyond us.”