Condoleezza Rice is Worse than Worthless

There are many, many reasons I have no respect for Condoleezza Rice, but I'm only going to write one here. She told the 9/11 Commission:

And I said, "No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon' about the use of airplanes as weapons actually was never briefed to us.

This is either a flat-out lie or incredible incompetence. One item all over the news in July 2001 was that this was an explicit security concern at the G8 summit in Genoa, Italy:

* July 20, 2001: The G8 summit in Genoa, Italy begins. Security is extremely tight because of large protests and intelligence indicating that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden were planning to attack the summit to kill George W. Bush and other attendees. The reported attack plan involved crashing a plane packed with explosives into the buildings where the delegates were meeting or staying during the summit.
o Numerous precautions against this attack were taken, including: George W. Bush staying at a separate location from the other delegates, fighter jets patrolling the sky over the city, a large no-fly zone for commercial aircraft, and surface-to-air missile batteries emplaced around the city.

This is not from top-secret briefing to the president; this was part of the daily news. How can we tolerate this sort of incompetence?