Sweeet!

From the NY Times: bq. The White House said today that it will allow President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to testify in public and under oath before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks, reversing its position that she was prevented from doing so by executive privilege. The poor people who asked for this probably don't know what kinds of whoop-ass that Dr. Rice will be able to open on them. She pulls no punches, is incredibly smart and will deliver their asses to them on a platter. Clarke and the whole 9/11 commission have been lurching around in the dark "discovering" obvious facts and ignoring peoples performance -- their efforts to determine who did what seem... well... slanted in a way that doesn't seem to favor the current administration. The problem for them is that the facts available in online transcripts from a few years ago as well as online newspaper articles seem to back up the continuing story that Clinton seriously dropped the ball, that Clarke was incompetent in his job and when Bush needed someone who could do the job and ushered Clarke out of office, his reaction was to pitch a tell-all hissy fit. Unfortunately the content of his character is not up to the allegations at hand. One person who gets is Senator Bill Frist. As I had written about here, he recently laid into Clarke's probity. From todays NY Times article, Senator Frist says: bq. Senator Frist, a Tennessee Republican, said today he was pleased that Ms. Rice would have an "opportunity" to testify. bq. "I am delighted that the legal hurdles have now been addressed by the White House and that she will have the opportunity to come forward with what I know will be a very powerful testimony and one that will set the record straight," he said in a brief exchange with reporters on Capitol Hill. This will be a fun one to watch!