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| | Rice, Condoleezza (Harpers.org) |
 | | Condoleezza Rice did appear publicly on 60 Minutes and confirmed Clarke's claim, originally denied by the White House, that on September 12, 2001, President Bush ordered Clarke to focus on possible Iraqi involvement in the 9/11 attacks, which the CIA had already concluded were carried out by Al Qaeda. |
 | | Again, Rice said, "there was no mention or recommendation of anything that needs to be done about them." Rice said that she couldn't remember whether she had ever mentioned the existence of the sleeper cells to the president prior to August 6. |
 | | Rice, the presumptive secretary of state, began her Senate confirmation hearings, during which she refused to say whether such acts as "water boarding," in which an interrogation subject is made to believe he will drown, can be defined as torture. |
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