A few weeks ago, President Bill Clinton was grilled by Fox News host Chris
Wallace about what his administration did to eliminate Osama bin Laden.
President Clinton forcefully defended his record and took Wallace to task
for not asking the same tough questions of senior Bush administration
officials.
This Sunday, Wallace will interview Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
With your help, we can get him to confront Rice with the tough questions
he
has so far refused to ask.
Tell Chris Wallace to ask Secretary Rice the hard questions about their
efforts to eliminate Osama bin Laden prior to 9/11.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=207591245&url_num=3&url=http://thinkprogress.org/ask-rice/
Here's the question we think Chris Wallace should ask:
Prior to 9/11, you had eight months to respond to the Al Qaeda attack on
the U.S.S. Cole. Why didn't the Bush administration take action and put Al
Qaeda out of business?
Wallace told President Clinton that he asked about his administration's
response to the U.S.S. Cole attack because he "got a lot of e-mail from
viewers." Now it's our turn to send Wallace a message.
Tell Chris Wallace to ask Condi the tough questions.
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During the past five years, Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary
Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Rice, and National Security Advisor Hadley
have
appeared on Fox News Sunday 42 times, and he hasn't asked them a single
question about their failure to retaliate for the Cole bombings.
This imbalance is reminiscent of recent attempts by conservative
ideologues
to rewrite the facts of September 11 for political gain, as exemplified by
ABC's recent "docudrama" The Path to 9/11. September 11 is too im****tant
to
play politics with the facts.
Tell Chris Wallace to ask Condi the tough questions.
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We will be watching Chris Wallace this weekend and will re****t back on
what
he asks. We hope Secretary Rice answers questions about the briefing she
received from CIA Director George Tenet on July 10, 2001 about a looming
Al
Qaeda attack inside the United States. We also hope that she levels with
the
american people about what the Bush administration did and did not do in
the
lead-up to 9/11.
Thanks for your help,
Judd Legum and the entire Center for American Progress Action Fund team
Tell Chris Wallace to ask Condi the tough questions.
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