"No One Could Have Imagined …"

Sec. of State Rice notoriously told the 9/11 Commission that the Bush administration had absolutely no warning about the 9/11 attacks, shifting the blame squarely on the intelligence community, particularly the C. I. A. and Director George Tenet. Later the Bush people pushed Tenet out of his office with a Medal of Freedom award.

Now White House Records reveal that Tenet in fact briefed the White House on the threat from Al Qaeda as early as July 10, 2001, two months before the attack.

Ms Rice, the national security advisor at the time, characterized the suggestion that the warnings were ignored as "incomprehensible." Perhaps she meant that the electorate would simply not be able to comprehend such ignorance on the part of the administration.

You can read more about it at The New York Times.