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Something is rotten in Denmark. This is what George Bush said a few days ago:

"Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to strike America, to attack us, I would have used every resource, every asset, every power of this government to protect the American people."

But it turns out that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice tried, in closed session, to recant her statement that the administration couldn't have known about possible attacks using airplanes

Democratic commission member Richard Ben-Veniste disclosed this week that Rice had asked, in her private meetings with the commission, to revise a statement she made publicly that "I don't think anybody could have predicted that those people could have taken an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center . . . that they would try to use an airplane as a missile." Rice told the commission that she misspoke; the commission has received information that prior to Sept. 11, U.S. intelligence agencies and Clarke had talked about terrorists using airplanes as missiles.

What's going on here? If Rice knew, why wouldn't the president know?

This is serious stuff.