Rice: 'No silver bullet' could have stopped 9/11

George Bush’s national security adviser insisted that the US president fully understood the threat of terrorism before September 11, 2001, but no intelligence foretold the deadliest attack on American soil.

Disputing criticism that Bush was negligent, Condoleezza Rice told a government commission yesterday “there was no silver bullet that could have prevented” the attacks that killed more than 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.