Condi Rice responds to the Woodward book:
“I just can’t let this impression stand,” Ms. Rice said on CBS. “The secretary of state was privy to all of the conversations with the president, all of the briefings for the president. They were in almost daily contact about what was going on at the United Nations.”
She added: “It’s just not the proper impression that somehow Prince Bandar was in the know in the way that Secretary Powell was not. It’s just not right. Secretary Powell had been privy to all of this. He knew what the war plan was.”