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Condi says she doesn't remember the warning that Bob Woodward says she got from George Tenet in July 2001, telling her and the administration that an al-Qaeda attack on the US was impending. The "non-denial denial" of Watergate raises its ugly head again. (For more of it, see the scandal over now-former Rep. Mark Foley.)

Having trouble believing the Secretary of State? I mean, even she admits that the briefing Woodward describes would have got her attention. (Ya think?)

Now the McClatchy Newspapers report that the 9/11 Commission was given the same "scary" (boy, is that an understatement) briefing, but chose not to include it in its report.

A couple of points: 1) In light of this latest revelation, it's even harder to believe Secretary Rice--or the administration she fronts for--than it was before. 2) We need to know why the bi-partisan Commission did not include word of this briefing in its report. Certainly news of such a briefing a month before the daily intelligence report that told W, "Al-Qaeda determined to attack US" would have been important to the American public before the 2004 election--or even after.

What makes the Commission's omission especially strange is that the Commission member briefed by Tenet (along with the Commission's general counsel) was Richard Ben-Veniste, straight arrow Democrat and Watergate prosecutor.

What gives?