Condoleezza Rice responds to the subpoena approved yesterday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee:
Rice, in Oslo for a meeting with NATO foreign ministers, said on Thursday she was not inclined to appear before the committee, saying her advice to the president as National Security Adviser was privileged, the Associated Press reported. She said that she had answered many of the same questions in her confirmation hearings for secretary of state, and said she would respond to this round of inquiry in writing -- but not in person.
"I addressed these questions, almost the same questions, during my confirmation hearing," she said. "This is an issue that has been answered and answered and answered...I am more than happy to answer them again in a letter."
Of course, her answers, answers, answers, have never actually answered the questions about the administration's false claims that Iraq sought uranium from Niger for its non-existent nuclear weapons.