Missle defense was top priority pre-9/11 according to… Condi Rice. Okay, somebody’s going to ask her about this during her testimony, that’s just a given, so you just know there’s a spin team deep in the bowels of the White House working on careful phrasing that Condi can use while testifying so she’s able to give some form of non-denial denial.

Money quote:

The [undelivered speech] also implicitly challenged the Clinton administration’s policy, saying it did not do enough about the real threat — long-range missiles.
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Unfortunately the enemy probably wouldn’t slap a GPS beacon on their missiles for us to track, like what we’ve been using for testing Star Wars…