Rice Testifies before 9/11 Commission Story aired: Thursday, April 08, 2004
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testified before the 9/11 Commission, contending that the Bush administration was well aware of the threat of Al Qaeda before the attacks, and had taken necessary steps to eliminate that threat.
The most contentious exchanges came over the contents of the briefing the president received at his Crawford Ranch one month before the 2001 attacks.
Guests:
James Gilmore, former Republican governor of Virginia, and who chaired the federally-chartered Gilmore Commission, created in 1999 to assess domestic responses to terrorism
Leon Fuerth, national security adviser to Vice President Al Gore, now a professor at George Washington University.
