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Rice to Face Tough Questions in Congressional Testimony 1


 


Scott Stearns


 


Ms. Rice has already met in private with the commission for about four hours. But that was before allegations by a former counter-terrorism chief that the White House did not pay enough attention to terrorist threats before the September 11th attacks.


 


Her public testimony Thursday is expected to focus largely on those claims by Richard Clarke that the Bush administration focused more on suspected state-sponsors of terrorism, including Iraq, than it did on individual terrorist groups, including al-Qaida.


 


Ms. Rice has said the administration took all threats seriously, and Mr. Clarke was not involved in every White House meeting on terrorism, so is not in a position to offer an authoritative 2 account.


 


President Bush had long resisted calls to have Ms. Rice appear publicly before the commission. But last week, he gave in to bipartisan Congressional pressure, and agreed to allow her to testify under oath.


 


Speaking Monday to reporters in the state of North Carolina, Mr. Bush said he is looking forward to her setting the record straight.


 


"She will be great. She is a very smart, capable person who knows exactly what took place and will lay out the facts," he said. "And that is what the commission's job is meant to do, and that is what the American people want to see. I am looking forward to people hearing her."


 


The president said he is also looking forward to meeting privately 3 with the entire September 11th commission, alongside Vice 4 President Dick Cheney.


 


Mr. Bush said, if he could have prevented the attacks, he would have. "Had we had the information that was necessary to stop an attack, I would have stopped the attack," he said. "And I am convinced any other government would have, too. Make no mistake about it. If we had known that the enemy was going to fly airplanes into our buildings, we would have done everything in our power to stop it."


 


After those attacks, Mr. Bush says, the stakes changed, and it took him very little time to go to war against al-Qaida and its allies in the Taleban leadership in Afghanistan.


 


National security is central to the president's drive for re-election. It is one of the areas where public-opinion polls show him leading the presumptive Democratic challenger, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry.


 


allegation [7Ali5^eiFEn] n. 断言,辩解


al-Qaida  基地组织


authoritative [C:5WCritEtiv] adj. 权威的


account [E5kaunt] n. 说明,理由


bipartisan [bai7pB:ti5zAn] adj. 两党连立的


alongside [E5lCN5said] adv. 与……一起


allies [`AlaIz] n. 联盟国,同盟者


Taleban “塔利班”


Afghanistan [Af5^AnistAn] n. 阿富汗(西南亚国家)


presumptive [pri5zQmptiv] adj. 假定的



n.证词;见证,证明
  • The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
  • He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
adj.有权威的,可相信的;命令式的;官方的
  • David speaks in an authoritative tone.大卫以命令的口吻说话。
  • Her smile was warm but authoritative.她的笑容很和蔼,同时又透着威严。
adv.以私人的身份,悄悄地,私下地
  • Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
  • The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
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