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Regards Condi testifying under oath. Official White House press release

Here. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/02/20040204-7.html

Exerpt: File this under “Yes or No”, Scotty. Simple question, simple answer.

Q What about Dr. Rice, Scott? There's reports that she will meet with the commission on Saturday. Is that correct?

MR. McCLELLAN: I expect she would be treated just like any other White House official. Like I said, we've been making administration officials available so that the commission has the information they need to do their job. We are working with them in a cooperative way. And that's how I would address it.

Q Can you say if White House officials, including Dr. Rice, are providing information under oath?

MR. McCLELLAN: I'm sorry?

Q Under oath?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, again, Terry, what I am saying is that we are committed to making sure that the commission has all the information they need to do their job, and do a thorough job, and complete that work -- complete their work in a timely manner. We have provided them unprecedented cooperation. We have made administration officials -- let me just go down kind of a list of a few things here. There have been more than 100 briefings, including the head-of-agency-level officials briefing the commission. There have been some 500-plus interviews. We've provided more then 2.3 million pages of documents to the commission, as I cited a minute ago. And we are continuing to make sure they have all the information they need to do their job.

Q But does the White House have a flat policy of not wanting officials to provide information under oath?

MR. McCLELLAN: I think that there are lots of ways to provide the commission with information, and these are issues that we discuss with the commission and work with them to make sure that they have that information. So that's the way that I would --

Q So you're open to providing --

MR. McCLELLAN: No, I wouldn't -- I would state it the way I did. We're working with the --
Q Could I get an answer to the question, which is --

MR. McCLELLAN: We're working with the commission on all those issues and we're making sure that they have all the information they need to do their job.

Q So that is a yes or a no?

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, again, those are issues that we discuss with the commission. And we work to make sure they have the information they need to do their job.

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