] Dealing with criticism that national security adviser
] Condoleezza Rice wouldn't testify in public before the
] 10-member commission investigating the Sept. 11 terrorist
] attacks, White House spokesman Scott McClellan complained
] last month that when she testified in private, "only five
] members showed up" to hear what she had to say.
]
] What McClellan didn't tell reporters was that on Nov. 21
] %u2014 long before Rice met with the five commissioners
] in February %u2014 the White House counsel's office had
] sent the commission a letter saying no more than three
] commissioners could attend meetings with White House
] aides of Rice's rank.

Gotta love the shell game the whitehouse plays. Goes to show you should not trust ANYTHING the Bush administration says. -LB

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