"Afterward, Tenet looked back on the meeting with Rice as a lost opportunity to prevent or disrupt the attacks. Rice could have gotten through to Bush on the threat, Tenet thought, but she just didn't get it in time. He felt that he had done his job and been very direct about the threat, but that Rice had not moved quickly. He felt she was not organized and did not push people, as he tried to do at the CIA. "Black later said, 'The only thing we didn't do was pull the trigger to the gun we were holding to her head.'"

. . . Then we learn the following:

"The July 10 meeting of Rice, Tenet and Black went unmentioned in various investigations into the Sept. 11 attacks, and Woodward wrote that Black 'felt there were things the commissions wanted to know about and things they didn't want to know about.' "Jamie S. Gorelick, a member of the Sept. 11 commission, said she checked with commission staff members who told her investigators were never told about a July 10 meeting. 'We didn't know about the meeting itself,' she said. 'I can assure you it would have been in our report if we had known to ask about it.'

"White House and State Department officials yesterday confirmed that the July 10 meeting took place, although they took issue with Woodward's portrayal of its results."

This meeting was covered up. Intentionally. Investigations are in order. Did Condaleeza Rice, who we already know was incompetent as National Security Advisor, lie under oath? Did Tenet? These are serious questions. One wonders if David Broder thinks so. Probably not. But I bet the Foley story gets him hepped up. The sex you know.