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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.
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