National security adviser Condoleezza Rice, at the center of a controversy over her refusal to testify before the Sept. 11 commission, Sunday renewed her determination not to give public testimony and said she could not list anything she wished she had done differently in the months before the 2001 terrorist attacks.
A defiant Rice defended the Bush administration's counterterrorism performance on CBS's \60 Minutes.""
Rice's appearance, and that of two other top Bush officials on the airwaves Sunday, came as the Bush administration labors to discredit Clarke, who challenged the White House Sunday to release more classified counterterrorism documents.
Rice brushed aside the notion that the U.S. government should apologize to Sept. 11 victims' families for not stopping the attacks, saying, ""It's important that we keep focused on who did this to us."" Rice asserted that ""we are safer today than we were on September 10th,"" and, asked whether there were any mistakes or misjudgments before the attacks, replied: ""I think we did what we knew how to do.""
-The Capital Times contributed to this report.
The woman accusing UW-Madison running back Dwayne Smith of sexual assault testified in Dane County Circuit Court Friday. The 19-year-old woman alleged that Smith, 19, sexually assaulted her Feb. 22. The woman allegedly met Smith through Anwar Jones, 22, after Jones brought her from a party to an apartment bedroom. According to the woman, Smith tried to convince her to have sex with him, telling her it would be ""the best night of your life.""
The woman described the situation, noting ""[Smith] tried to take my shirt off. I told him no. I
didn't want to do this.""
Smith allegedly managed to remove her clothes and proceeded to have sex with her. He now faces charges of second-degree sexual assault.
-The Capital Times contributed to this report.
Jacques Verges, a French attorney well-known for defending prominent figures, announced Sunday he will defend former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, should he be put on trial, according to CNN.com.
Saddam's nephew, Ali Barzan al-Tikriti, asked Verges to take the case. Verges said 11 other lawyers of various nationalities will work with him.
Verges said he plans to have Western leaders who backed Saddam during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s to testify.
Former Verges clients include former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie.
