This is no excuse:

In the 60 Minutes program on former counter-terrorism coordinator Richard Clarke, we hear the administration's view from Stephen Hadley, Condoleezza Rice’s right-hand man in National Security Council. He says this about Clarke's accusation that the administration failed to act responsibly to the threat posed by al-Qaeda: (emphasis added)

I don't know what he's said about the prior administration, which, again, was in office and dealing with this problem for eight years. We were in office dealing with this problem for 230 days.

Low quality .wav file of that quote can be heard here.

posted by Quiddity at 3/21/2004 08:08:00 PM