Look, let me clearly state that
I DESPISE Sean Hannity and his ilk and everything they stand for. However, I do think that this article:
entitled
"Rice Never Spoke About Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden Before 9/11, Investigation Shows..." needs to be reconsidered.
As much as I hate it when they're right, on March 31 Sean Hannity played this clip from a 10/04/2000 WJR radio interview in Detroit with David Newman:
CONDOLEEZZA RICE, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: Usama bin Laden do two things. The first is you really have to get the intelligence agencies better organized to deal with the terrorist threat to the United States itself. One of the problems that we have is a kind of split responsibility, of course, between the CIA and foreign intelligence and the FBI and domestic intelligence.
There needs to be better cooperation because we don't want to wake up one day and find out that Usama bin Laden has been successful on our own territory.
I just thought I'd share that. We all know how hard those guys spin, but it's hard to deny that Condi does, indeed, mention Osama in this interview. Common Dreams really ought to update their article, because it only says that between January, 2001 and 9/11, she didn't mention Osama or Al Queda. She did, however, mention him in October 2000.