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In 2002, Rice said, "
I don't think anybody could have predicted that those people could take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." But when presented with overwhelming evidence that the administration had been warned about such a plot, she admitted privately to the 9/11 Commission that she "misspoke." Yet, even after this admission, she proceeded to repeat the same claim, writing in a recent Washington Post op-ed, "we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles."
White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer echoed Rice's remarks: "
Never did we imagine what would take place on September 11 where people use those airplanes as missiles and weapons."
President Bush on April 18:
"Nobody in our government, at least, and I don't think the prior government, could envision flying airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale."
March 24: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told the Commission: "
I knew of no intelligence during the six-plus months leading up to September 11 to indicate terrorists would hijack commercial airlines, use them as missiles to fly into the Pentagon or the World Trade Center towers."