The NYT: "We don’t have room for all our questions"

"hope" isn't nearly strong enough... i would opt for "insist..."

We hope Representative Henry Waxman, chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, enforces the subpoena of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss prewar claims about Saddam Hussein’s long-gone weapons programs. Ms. Rice, who was national security adviser before the war, says she has answered every possible question. Actually, we don’t have room for all our questions.

Just a few: Did she vet the briefing Mr. Bush got from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s rogue intelligence shop on Iraq’s alleged efforts to acquire uranium? The Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department thought, correctly, that the report was false. So why did Ms. Rice permit the president to repeat it to the world? Or did Mr. Bush also know what he was claiming was wrong?

The same applies to other claims about Iraq, including a false report about the purchase of aluminum tubes for bomb building, talk of mushroom clouds and fairy tales about links between Iraq and Al Qaeda. When it became clear the intelligence was false, why didn’t Ms. Rice make sure the public found out? Before the war, Ms. Rice was not in a post requiring Senate confirmation, but she is now. If she refuses to testify, the House should hold her in contempt.

condoleezza rice has been one of the principal liars of the bush administration... the nyt's questions revolve around iraq, but there are many, many more - torture, black sites, extraordinary rendition, forewarning and/or foreknowledge of 9/11, the mysterious flight whisking bin laden's relatives out of the u.s. immediately post-9/11, and the list goes on... ms. rice is every bit as much a criminal as dick cheney, donald rumsfeld, alberto gonzales, george tenet, colin powell, karl rove, and george bush, and, like all of them, must be held accountable, whether it be sooner or later... my preference is for sooner...

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