The "bombshell" episode is at the bottom of a WaPo story. If you read it, you'll see Condi admitted the urgency occurred ON SEPTEMBER 4TH - when Richard Clarke finally had his audience with these jackasses.
She said confronting terrorists competed with other foreign policy concerns when the president came into office, but added that the administration's top national security advisers completed work on the first major national security policy directive of the administration on Sept. 4. The subject, she said, was "not Russia, not missile defense, not Iraq, but the elimination of al-Qaida."McNews from McDrudge. He probably bets on his target audience not clicking the links.
Bush, she said, "understood the threat, and he understood its importance," she said.
"He made clear to me that he did not want to respond to al-Qaida one attack at a time. He told me he was 'tired of swatting flies'," Rice told the commission.
