Memories ...

From Condoleezza Rice's appearance on Meet the Press:

MR. RUSSERT: How’d [the uranium from Niger claim] get back in [the State of the Union address]?

DR. RICE: It’s not a matter of getting back in. It’s a matter, Tim, that three-plus months later, people didn’t remember that George Tenet had asked that it be taken out of the Cincinnati speech and then it was cleared by the agency. I didn’t remember. Steve Hadley didn’t remember. We are trying to put now in place methods so you don’t have to be dependent on people’s memories for something like that.

MR. RUSSERT: Did you ever read the memo that I referenced?

DR. RICE: I don’t remember the memo.

posted by Quiddity at 9/28/2003 09:20:00 AM