Lying is its Own Reward

"No al-Qaeda threat was turned over to the new administration."

--Condoleezza Rice, then National Security Advisor, now Secretary of State, in a March 22, 2004 column in the Washington Post.



"We urgently need . . . a principals-level review on the al-Qaeda network."

--Richard Clarke, in a declassified memo written to Rice on January 25, 2001 (emphasis in original).