Rice Set to Testify Publicly
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House reversed itself on Tuesday and offered to have national security adviser Condoleezza Rice testify publicly under oath about the Sept. 11 attacks before the 9-11 commission.
The White House released a letter to the independent commission from legal counsel Alberto Gonzalez outlining the offer. It also said it would make President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney available to speak before a joint private session of the full panel.
Both offers were on condition that they would not set a precedent under the constitutional separation of executive and legislative powers, an administration official said.
A lot of people are going to be saying “I told you so!” about this. It’s almost funny how easily Democrats fell into this trap. They started yelling about how the fact that she wouldn’t testify meant there was a big evil conspiracy, and the Bush administration let it get to a fever pitch before agreeing to let her testify. She’s going to come out squeaky clean and make them all look like flaming idiots.
I love it.