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Any way you read this - it's explosive. I can't do any better than the original text so here it is:

JIDDA, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 2 A review of White House records has determined that George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, did indeed brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001 about looming threat from Al Qaeda, a State Department spokesman said on Monday evening.

This tid bit - spilled by Bob Woodward's latest book "State of Denial" has pushed darling Condi back on her ass, as she's desperately tried to back pedal.. "Um, I don't recall. No, I never had that meeting. I never would have ignored it if I did."

Well, apparently her faulty memory isn't the only problem. The fact that this was never mentioned to the 9/11 commission is gaffe the size of the grand canyon.

Personally I know, as any halfway intelligent person with the capability to wade through propaganda and recognize it, that there's far more to the story than the public will get to hear for many decades. Look how long it's taken for information about Korea and Vietnam to get the light of day... and the press wasn't half so restricted then as it is now.

Nonetheless, this fact lays responsibility squarely in the lap of the administration. It will be an amusing, if pathetic act of tap-dancing to watch them wiggle out from under and attempt to lay the blame on someone else. It's highly unlikely that this bit of data will go lightly into the sunset. Rather it's a ticket for someone's public execution, the biggest question is who?

Much noise has been made as of late about how the President lied his way into a war. How the truth had been withheld from the public and other branches of government. For those still interested in the story it's been confirmed over and over that there was no link to terrorists in Iraq, in much the same way there were no weapons of mass destruction. With those elements removed there simply is no supporting justification, other than "we wanted revenge". Ok, so how many dead people does it take to satisfy one mans desire for revenge?

I guess we'll be finding that out...