Condoleezza Amnesia

When you’re a big shot like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, you can’t be expected to remember every piece of paper that crosses your desk, let alone who might have sat on the other side of it. But a pattern of forgetfulness has emerged in the six years that Rice has been national security advisor and then diplomat in chief that suggests a pathological condition.

For want of a more scientific term, let’s call it Condoleezza Amnesia, or CA for short.

The most pungent example of CA has been the July 2001 meeting in her White House office that she doesn’t recall having with CIA Director George Tenet and J. Cofer Black, the State Department’s counterterrorism guru.

Tenet and Black bore bad tidings: Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda posed a grave threat to the homeland. A few weeks later they were proven all too correct.

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