Condoleeza "shutmouth" Rice won't talk...

She has dummied up nicely and won't nark under oath to the 9-11 Commission.
This hasn't stopped her from replying to the proceedings through the press...but she will keep her trap shut otherwise.
Does anything else perfectly illustrate the mobster mentality that infects La Famiglia Arbusto?
And not fro nothing though, but Bush, Cheney, Rummie and Colin Powell...the cream of the whole useless gang are testifying...why does Condi get a pass?
I suspect that Wolfowicz etc know something we do not....like maybe National Security Advisor Rice has the spine of a chocolate eclair and can be counted upon to fold up under strong cross examination.
Anecdotal evidence supports this thesis when you consider that Cheney and Wolfie basically brushed past Rice without getting their hair mussed on the way to talking GWB into invading Iraq.
She screwed up prior to 9-11-01...she probably signed onto the invasion as a means to obscure her own ineptitude.
In which case Condi's conscience might be bothering her...which could prove troublesome if she is put under oath and under pressure from even a half-bright interlocutor.
On the other hand, Condi is a prize trophy appointment right up there with Colin Powell...a black woman republican in a serious position of power does much to deflect criticism of her President's racial policies.
Besides, Bush would love to appoint her Secretary of State in his notional second term....her ability to handle the job (which is quite frankly, nil) is unimportant, it is the symbolism that counts.
Someone up there must be afraid that if Condi gives a poor performance in front of the 9-11 Commission her value to the President as a future marker might be undercut.
Such is the inherent disposability of a courtier and flatterer.
But it's worth it to the President to at least try and keep her out of the witness stand...although if she comes in for much more grief look for Condi to exit by way of an ambassadorship to some out of the way spot like New Zealand or Argentina.