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Rice Plans No Apology in 9/11 Testimony

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice has no plans to make a public apology for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in her public testimony before the 9/11 commission, a senior Bush administration official said on Wednesday.

A dramatic apology by former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke two weeks ago in his appearance before the commission investigating the hijacked airliner attacks led to speculation that Rice might do the same. "Your government failed you, and I failed you," Clarke said.

But White House officials indicated Rice had no intention of apologizing for the 9/11 tragedy as Clarke did, because the administration felt it did all that could be done to prevent the attacks based on the information available at the time.