Clarke Deserves Gratitude for Confronting White House Stonewall

NEWS FROM ED MARKEY

United States Congress Massachusetts Seventh District

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Israel Klein (202) 225-2836

March 30, 2004

MARKEY SAYS CLARKE DESERVES GRATITIUDE FOR CONFRONTING WHITE HOUSE STONEWALL

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Select Committee on
Homeland Security, released the following statement on the White House decision to allow National Security
Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, to testify in front of the Commission to Investigate the Terrorist Attacks of
September 11, 2001:

"I am happy that National Security Advisor Rice has finally been able to find time in her busy schedule of
media interviews to testify in public, under oath, in front of the Commission to Investigate the Terrorist
Attacks of 9/11. It will now be possible for the public and the Commission to judge for themselves the level
of priority devoted by the White House to counterterrorism in the months leading up to September 11, 2001.
The American people owe a debt of gratitude to former White House counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke
for helping to tear down the stonewall that the Bush Administration erected the moment this important
commission was formed."