What?
This is the administration's explanation of why there will be no apology coming from Dr. Rice tomorrow:
"An apology 'promotes the notion that we were at fault, we fixed it and it will never happen again,' the colleague said. 'You can't make those kind of guarantees.'"

We're not apologizing because we can't 100% assure terrorists won't strike again? So next time I'm late, remind to refrain from the apology...I might be late again sometime.
Really, this is utter bullcrap. Clarke's apology was spot on- and he said exactly what any government official connected to anti-terror should say: We tried, we thought we were doing well...but ultimately, we failed.
Or does the administration contend that, because there is no guarantee as to fault, apologies are out of order? Have they heard of various and severable liability?