Rice's response to Clinton's interview with Wallace

Okay, I don't know about you, but anyone with half a brain knows that what Rice was feeding the press following Clinton's interview about bin Laden is a load of BS. Her assertion that the Bush administration actually tried to track down bin Laden in the eight months of his presidency prior to 9/11, and that "the 9/11 Commission understood that," is an attempt to once again hold up a Commission that in truth did not uncover anything of note in its entire investigation regarding 9/11 and the actions before and after it. Anyone worth their salt, who actually does some research, can find out that Osama bin Laden was in an American Hospital in Dubai, only months before 9/11, and was treated there by an American doctor. It is also asserted that he was visited by the CIA. Please tell me how wonderful of a job the Bush administration was doing of tracking down America's "most wanted" criminal when he was right under their nose and they didn't bother to bring him in?? Now, of course these reports could have been false - even though reported by a very reliable journalist. But did the 9/11 Commission - in it's attempt to uncover every stone and do an incredible investigative job - actually investigate this report, or even mention it? NOPE. They don't try to even verify or refute it. Now please tell me how that shows that the "9/11 Commission has turned over every rock" as Rice says? If anything, it shows how a Republican run investigation (because that's exactly what it was) attempted to ignore and distort reports and facts that would have been devastating to their administration. Forget the answers that those who lost people in the terrorist attacks are entitled to. Or the answers the rest of us as Americans are entitled to because Bush used the attacks as a catalyst to go to war with the world. It ticks me off that at election time, the current administration wants to put the blame on the previous administration for not properly preparing them. But don't we vote them into office because they are able to handle events of this proportion? Why do they need the previous administration to hold their hand, so to speak? Can't they come up with their own policies for dealing with terrorism that aren't in place when the previous administration is still in control?

I am currently reading The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. So I will probably be sounding off a lot here in the next few months as I continue to read about the glaring problems in the The 9/11 Commission's official report. It bothers and scares me as an American citizen that we still do not have a lot of the answers we should have. And hopefully one day will have.