Looks like Rice’s honeymoon is over:

EIGHT months before the September 11 attacks the White House’s then counterterrorism adviser urged then national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to hold a high-level meeting on the al-Qaeda network, according to a memo made public today. “We urgently need such a principals-level review on the al-Qaeda network,” … Richard Clarke wrote in the January 25, 2001 memo. Mr Clarke, who left the White House in 2003, made headlines in the heat of the US presidential campaign … when he accused the Bush White House of having ignored al-Qaeda’s threats before September 11. Mr Clarke testified before inquiry panels and in a book that Rice … had been warned of the threat…However, Ms Rice wrote in a March 22, 2004 column in The Washington Post that “No al-Qaeda threat was turned over to the new administration”.