Barbara Streisand has ripped into new US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, while displaying an alarming verbal verbosity. Here are some contenders for longest sentence ever from the latest statement on her website:
Maintaining that she “never thought that [al Qaeda] would try and use a hijacked airplane as a missile,” Rice validated the notion that she clearly did not take the intelligence briefing she received shortly before 9/11 entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States” seriously. The declassified intelligence briefing informed the President and his Advisor that “a group of bin Laden supporters are in the U.S. planning attacks,” yet the president stayed on vacation at his ranch for 23 more days, Dick Cheney, head of the terrorist task force, did nothing, and the National Security Advisor failed to convene cabinet level meetings to discuss the threat. In January 2001, despite Clarke’s further warnings that heads of the CIA, FBI, and State Defense Departments be immediately briefed on the al Qaeda threat, and although the national security leadership met formally nearly 100 times in the months prior to the Sept. 11 attacks, terrorism was the topic during only two of those sessions.
I am guessing by Ms Streisand’s successful career that she did not write the lyrics to too many of her songs.
