Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signaled she’ll reject a House subpoena to testify on her knowledge of the Bush administration’s use of pre-war intelligence to lead the country into the Iraq War. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wants to look into the administration’s false claim Iraq tried to purchase uranium from Niger. Rice spoke Thursday in Oslo.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: “If there are questions [Rep. Henry Waxman] has, I hope he would post them, and I would be happy to answer them [in writing]. But there is a constitutional principle. This all took place in my role as national security adviser, and there is a separation of powers, and advisers to the president under that constitutional principle are not generally required to go and testify in Congress.”