IN THE EYE OF THE STORM.

Profiles National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her role in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. Criticism of how Rice failed to anticipate the major terrorist attack on September 11, 2001; Claims from former National Security Council counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke that he warned Rice about the dangers associated with al Qaeda in January 2001; Development of the National Security Council in 1947 by President Harry Truman; How Rice promoted a false report that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein sought out uranium in Niger for use to build nuclear weapons.