Condoleezza Rice - Cheney told her and George W. Bush they might die by poisoning

WTF is this news??? Condoleezza Rice in an interview with ABC News revealed that weeks after 9/11, then Vice President Dick Cheney called her and former President Bush while they were in Shanghai via video conference call to deliver chilling news: They might have been poisoned, and they might die!

Luckily, the tests turned out negative. Read the details and watch the video here:

From NY Daily News:

In a revealing ABC interview, Rice recounted the story while on tour for her newly released memoir, in which she details fears of radioactive attacks and smallpox in Washington after 9/11.

She and then-President Bush were in Shanghai just weeks after the terrorist attacks when Vice President Dick Cheney called in on a video conference line to deliver the unsettling news.

"The vice president came on the screen and said that the White House detectors have detected botulinum toxin, and we were all — those of who were exposed — were going to die," Rice told ABC's George Stephanopoulos this week.

"I remember everybody just sort of freezing and the president saying, 'What was that? What was that Dick?" said Rice.

Botulism poisoning leads to paralysis, first starting with the face muscles and then spreading toward the limbs. In its most severe forms, the poison can lead to respiratory failure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The samples were sent to the CDC for further testing on lab mice, which took a painstaking 24 hours to come back. Rice said they acted as if nothing worrisome was going on, but in the back of her mind wondered if they would get home before the toxin began to act.

Rice, who was then National Security Adviser, recalled what her deputy, Steve Hadley, said to her.

He "had this very dry sense of humor. And he said, 'Let me put it this way: If the mice are feet up, we're toast. If the mice are feet down, we're fine," she recalled to Stephanopoulos.

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