Shortly before former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke [3]'s testimony to the September 11th commission, "the White House violated its long-standing rules by authorizing Fox News to air remarks favorable to Bush that Clarke had made anonymously at an administration briefing in 2002 [4]. The White House press secretary read passages from the 2002 remarks at his televised briefing, and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice... called reporters into her office to highlight the discrepancy [5]. 'There are two very different stories here,' she said. 'These stories can't be reconciled.'" On Tuesday, White House press secretary Scott McClellan read from Clarke's January 2003 resignation letter [6] and stated: "There was no mention of the grave concerns he claims to have had about the direction of the war on terrorism." As journalist Chris Albritton has noted [7], moreover, Fox News committed "a major journalistic no-no [8]" by publicizing Clarke's off-the-record interview: "A news organization that was included in a briefing with the agreement that it was on background - that is, with no quotes and the briefer not be identified - approached a source's former employer and offered to give up apparently conflicting words that the employer could use against the source."