Derrick Z. Jackson, The Boston Globe: A defense full of holes: "Condoleezza Rice said no silver bullet could have prevented the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. She said that even though intelligence in the spring and summer of 2001 picked up chatter of 'unbelievable news coming in weeks' and boasting of a 'big event -- there will be a very, very, very, very big uproar,' there was no reason for uproar in the White House." Read the column

Eugene Kane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "This is a tale of lost love and opportunity, a story I haven't told until now because it hurt too much. Her name was Condoleezza Rice; from the first second I saw her, my soul was conquered." Read the column

Sheryl McCarthy, Newsday: "If you were expecting to get some kind of closure out of Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 Commission, you were probably disappointed. It was never going to happen." Read the column

Sherman N. Miller, freelance: "As the world watched U.S. National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice testify before the 9/11 commission, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. started to crystallize between Black America and Black Republicans." Read the column

Elmer Smith, Philadelphia Daily News: "For sheer excitement, Condoleezza Rice's day in the center ring ranked somewhere between emptying the clown car and watching the guy in the tuxedo turn silk scarves into canes." Read the column

Wendi C. Thomas, Memphis Commerical Appeal: "Thursday's testimony by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice before the Sept. 11 Commission - and all the over-our-shoulder analysis of that day - can be distilled to a single question. What if?" Read the column