“The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United States and did nothing about it - really? Do you think any president of the United States, if he had even an inkling there was going to be an attack, they wouldn't have moved heaven and earth to try to stop it?”

American diplomat and political scientist

Condoleezza Rice is an American diplomat and political scientist. She served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009, and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Since 2020, she has been the 8th director of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Her public life is rooted in American foreign policy and national security, and her work has centered on those fields.