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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BOOKSTORE Nation & World News Rice to testify under oath before 9/11 commission After a long debate, the White House has agreed to let Condoleezza Rice testify on the events of Sept 11 By Michelle Mittelstadt The Dallas Morning News (KRT) WASHINGTON — Moving to quell a controversy that has thrown the Bush team on the defensive and could hold political peril, the White House reversed course Tuesday and agreed to allow National Security Adviser Con doleezza Rice to testify publicly and under oath before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11,2001 attacks. President Bush's decision follows weeks of insistence by Rice and other White House aides that the appear ance of a presidential adviser before the commission would weaken exec utive privilege. But amid a furious war of words be tween the White House and a one time Rice deputy — former countert errorism chief Richard Clarke — over the Bush's terrorism-fighting efforts, administration officials voiced grow ing concern that the executive privilege argument was being lost in the noise. New polls also suggest that confi dence in the president's leadership in the war on terrorism — a key plank of his re-election campaign — has erod ed among swing voters in recent days as the dispute unfolded. The White House also settled an other lingering conflict with the Sept. 11 commission, agreeing that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney would jointly sit for a private inter view with all 10 commissioners. Pre viously, the White House had insisted that only the panel's chairman and vice chairman could question them. "I Ve ordered this level of cooperation because I consider it necessary to gain ing a complete picture of the months and years that preceded the murder of our fellow citizens on September the 11th, 2001," Bush told reporters. No date has been set for Rice's ap pearance or for the private meeting for Bush and Cheney. The compromise, finalized Mon day night, was reached after the com mission agreed to write a letter saying Rice's testimony would not set a precedent for testimony by presiden tial aides in future administrations. The panel, which has until July 26 to prepare a final report listing the Sept. 11 failings and proposing fixes, also agreed not to seek the public tes timony of any additional White House officials. Commission members, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill, and relatives of Sept. 11 victims welcomed the White House's about-face. "We're very grateful to the White House for understanding that this was necessary for us to meet our man date," said the commission's chair man, former New Jersey Republican Gov. Tom Kean. The Family Steering Committee, a group of relatives of Sept. 11 victims that was instrumental in establishing the bipartisan panel, said the agree ment will "undoubtedly make the Si ll commission's final report more complete, comprehensive, and trans parent in nature." Kean previously had said the White House had "shot itself in the foot" by not permitting Rice to testify publicly, even as she made herself widely avail able for media interviews to debunk Clarke’s new tell-all book and his testi mony last week before the Sept. 11 commission in which he said the Bush team lacked the urgency in fighting ter rorism of the Clinton administration. Democrats faulted the White House for its delay in changing course. "Why all this obstruction in the first place? It was an intolerable and un tenable position to have Rice speak ing to every talk show in the country and failing to speak to the 9-11 com mission," Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., told a news conference. Some political experts said the White House had little choice but to capitulate - or face the danger that the public would view its actions as stonewalling. "What they've done with this fan dango over Condi is take a one-week story and made it into a three-week story," said Norm Omstein, a political analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. "The more this is a story out there, the more almost by osmosis it seeps into people's con sciousness and raised doubts about the credibility of the administration." Others said the administration is making it harder to protect executive privilege. Ted Galen Carpenter, vice president for foreign policy studies at the liber tarian Cato Institute, said the White House sacrificed executive privilege for a "public relations problem." "The fact is, a precedent will be set, however much they might argue oth erwise," he said. "Certainly, it will be harder for a subsequent administra tion to raise that objection." Paul Rosenzweig, a legal fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said executive privilege won't be weakened in the courts by the Bush action but may suffer elsewhere. "As a matter of precedent, it clearly adds to the historical record of the erosion of the privilege," he said. In a letter Tuesday to the commis sion, White House counsel Al Gonza les said Bush relented because of the "most extraordinary and unique cir-' cumstances" of the Sept. 11 attacks and only after receiving congression al and commission assurances that "limit harm to the ability of future presidents to receive candid advice." Rice, who already has spent four hours in private debriefings by the com mission, had always wanted to appear in public session but was overruled by White House lawyers, Kean said Tues day, adding that the matter was "of some distress to her personally." While welcoming the White House reversal, Sept. 11 widow Kristen Bre itweiser expressed concern that the par tisanship evident in last week's ques tioning of Clarke by some of the 10 commissioners will reach new highs when Rice appears before the panel. "The bottom line is Ms. Rice is an important person," Breitweiser said. "I would hope any time she spends with the commission would be time well spent, not wasted on political jibes." Commission Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton, a former Democratic con gressman from Indiana, conceded a partisan tone crept into last week's hearing and said he and Kean would urge commissioners to focus on factu al and policy questions. At her public appearance, Rice is sure to be asked about her differing views with Clarke. Commissioners also say they want to better under stand the transition from the Clinton to the Bush national security teams, and the nearly eight-month process that Rice supervised to develop a new counterterrorism strategy. (c) 2004, The Dallas Morning News. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. i I -VlVKRSl’VY OF OREGON * ^ Cmamu&Ah Fo&zot^ Now Hiring For 2004-05 Heritage Music, National Music, Regional Music, Queer Film Festival, Performing Arts, & Permanent Art and Buzz Curator Applications Due April 1st \r _/\ cS Pick up apps. EMU Suite 2 or online http://culturalforum.uoregon.edu 346-4373 tvm
