Thursday, February 05, 2004
 From New York Observer 2004 02 05:National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice has agreed to be interviewed by the bipartisan 9/11 commission on Feb. 7, after weeks of resistance from the White House to the bipartisan panel’s requests, The Observer has learned.
In a Feb. 3 interview the newly minted commission member Bob Kerrey, the former Senator from Nebraska, now the president of the New School University, said that Ms. Rice’s interview will not be held under oath, and the results of the interview are not to be made public.
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Kerrey, the commission’s unlikely new spitfire, told The Observer he would lobby the comission to request sworn, public testimony from Bush’s embittered national security advisor.
"I'm very much interested in following up on the statement Condoleezza Rice made at her famous press conference in ’02, that 'I don’t think anybody could have predicted … that they would try to use an airplane as a missile,’" Mr. Kerrey said. "I don’t believe that."
The commissioners are divided on whether or not to press the point—and to use a subpoena if she refuses.
"We’re not there yet," said former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean, the committee’s chairman.
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