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By Philip Shenon
The New York Times
Sunday 01 October 2006
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Washington - Members of the Sept. 11 commission said today that they were alarmed that they were told nothing about a
White House meeting in July 2001 at which George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, is reported to
have warned Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser, about an imminent al Qaeda attack and failed to
persuade her to take action.
Details of the previously undisclosed meeting on July 10, 2001, two months before the Sept. 11 terror attacks, were
first reported last week in a new book by the journalist Bob Woodward.
The final report from the Sept. 11 commission made no mention of the meeting nor did it suggest there had been such an
encounter between Mr. Tenet and Ms. Rice, now secretary of state.
Since release of the book, "State of Denial," the White House and Ms. Rice have disputed major elements of Mr.
Woodward's account, with Ms. Rice insisting through spokesmen that there had been no such exchange in a private meeting
with Mr. Tenet and that he had expressed none of the frustration attributed to him in Mr. Woodward's book.
"It really didn't match Secretary Rice's recollection of the meeting at all," said Dan Bartlett, counselor to President
Bush, in an interview on the CBS News program "Face the Nation."
"It kind of left us scratching our heads because we don't believe that's an accurate account," he said.
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