PAGING CHAIRMAN WAXMAN As Josh Marshall notes today, Condoleezza Rice was out propagating falsehood all over the airwaves yesterday to try to make her case for defying a subpoena
from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to testify on the White House’s infamous claim that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa for its nuclear program. And it’s no wonder. Rice has never really answered for her own role — and if George Tenet‘s new book is to believed, it doesn’t look good.

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