Ten Things You Didn’t Know About The BBC
- At April 10, 2004
- By Bob Howe
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BBC News online has a great weekly feature: 10 things we didn’t know this time last week. This week’s list is especially good:
3. Germans are not allowed to name their offspring Judas, because of the potential harm it may cause the child.
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars…
- At April 09, 2004
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E.J. Dionne Jr., in today’s Washington Post
There is, for example, a clear discrepancy between Rice’s claim that the FBI’s field offices were pressed to investigate an impending threat from al Qaeda and the insistence by FBI officials that they received no such guidance.
They lie. They lie, and we have to be mericful for those who lie.
- At April 09, 2004
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The Center for American Progress parses National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice’s testimony to the 9/11 Commission on Thursday in its report, Claim vs. Fact: Rice’s Q&A Testimony Before the 9/11 Commission:
CLAIM: “I do not remember any reports to us, a kind of strategic warning, that planes might be used as weapons.” [responding to Kean]
FACT: Condoleezza Rice was the top National Security official with President Bush at the July 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa. There, “U.S. officials were warned that Islamic terrorists might attempt to crash an airliner” into the summit, prompting officials to “close the airspace over Genoa and station antiaircraft guns at the city’s airport.” [Sources: Los Angeles Times, 9/27/01; White House release, 7/22/01]