26 September 2001Add Congressional Report, September 26: Powell, Rumsfeld Briefings
(Secretaries brief Congress on terrorism) (210) POWELL, RUMSFELD BRIEF CONGRESS ON ANTI-TERRORISM DRIVE Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have updated most members of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the current status of anti-terrorism efforts in a pair of Capitol Hill meetings. The unusually broad briefings September 25 -- first of all senators able to attend, then most members of the House -- followed by two weeks the deadly attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon near Washington. Talking with reporters after the Senate session, Powell said that he and Rumsfeld had given the legislators "a sense of the president's determination to pursue terrorism and especially to pursue those responsible for the incident on the 11th of September, that terrible tragedy." Rumsfeld described the session as "a most unusual, top secret, classified meeting," and added, "We are grateful for the terrific support that the Republicans and Democrats on a bipartisan basis have given the president and his administration." (The Washington File is a product of the Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)
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