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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Jewish elementary school students that the Bush administration did not use illegal interrogation tactics. Her remarks were in response to a question from Misha Lerner, a fourth-grader at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Rice spoke at the school Sunday before giving a lecture at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue.
Lerner asked Rice what she thought about the Obama administration's remarks on interrogation methods authorized by its predecessors.
Rice responded that she didn't want to criticize President Barack Obama. But she also said that President George W. Bush assured his administration that "we would do nothing, nothing, that was against the law or against our obligations internationally."
"I hope you understand that it was a very difficult time. We were all so terrified of another attack on the country," she said. "Even under those most difficult circumstances, the president was not prepared to do something illegal, and I hope people understand that we were trying to protect the country."
Last week the former secretary of state told Stanford University students that "we did not torture anyone."
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Source: Associated Press Online
Damn, that 4th grader had chutzpa.WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Jewish... more
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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Jewish elementary school students that the Bush administration did not use illegal interrogation tactics. Her remarks were in response to a question from Misha Lerner, a fourth-grader at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Lerner asked Rice what she thought about the Obama administration's remarks on interrogation methods authorized by its predecessors.
Rice responded that she didn't want to criticize President Barack Obama. But she also said that President George W. Bush assured his administration that "we would do nothing, nothing, that was against the law or against our obligations internationally."
"I hope you understand that it was a very difficult time. We were all so terrified of another attack on the country," she said. "Even under those most difficult circumstances, the president was not prepared to do something illegal, and I hope people understand that we were trying to protect the country."Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Jewish elementary school students that... more
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The "If Americans Knew" web site also publishes and keeps current shocking information on the daily toll in the OPT. Some of its disturbing figures affecting Palestinians from September 29, 2000 (the first day of the Second Intifada) to the present at the hands of Israeli forces are as follows:
-- 934 Palestinian children have been killed in most cases while engaging in normal daily activities like going to school, playing, shopping, or being in their homes. PCHR reports a total of 4284 Palestinian deaths through March 23, 2007.
-- A known total of 31,307 Palestinians have been injured, mostly civilians, and mostly under the same circumstances children were killed. The B'Tselem Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories reports these numbers are extremely conservative while the internationally respected Palestine Red Crescent Society reports much higher totals that are likely more accurate. In addition, these figures exclude large numbers of Palestinians who die when unable to reach medical care in time because of Israeli checkpoints, road closures, curfews and other restrictions on mobility in the OPT. Also, no accurate records are available on the large number of avoidable Palestinian deaths resulting from deprivation and/or disease following the first time ever imposition of sanctions on an occupied people from early 2006 to the present.
-- The cite reports US financial aid to Israel is $7,023,288 per day, but the true number is far higher including:
- around $3 billion or more annually in direct aid;
- billions more in loans as needed;
- millions annually for immigrant resettlement;
- multi-billions in waved loan repayments;
- billions more in military aid, financial help to develop Israel's defense industry, transfer of state-of-the-art technology and the latest US weapons, and US guarantees for Israel's access to oil;
- $22 billion Israel got over the past 50 years through the sale of its below-market paying bonds that have financed half its development - meaning the colonization of annexed Palestinian land; military aid for its imperial aggressive wars; and still more as needed and requested.
Tiny Israel today (with six million Jews) gets more US financial aid (in all direct and indirect forms) than all other countries in the world combined.
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Palestinians Beware
24 April 2009
Mitri I. Musleh - Israel’s new demand for being recognized as a Jewish state by the Palestinians as a precondition for peace between the two people is ambiguous, confusing and is totally a time wasting mechanism. Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised US senior envoy, George Mitchell, that Palestinians must recognize Israel as a “Jewish State” before peace talks can begin. Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted a senior official in Netanyahu’s office as saying that “Israel expects the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state before talking about two states for two peoples”.
I am absolutely and totally confused. For all of those years since 1948 where the UN recognized Israel as a Jewish state, the illegal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, the endless number of war casualties on both sides, the creation of the largest contingent number of Palestinian refugees, the ongoing US yearly financial and military aid to Israel, all the international efforts deployed to establish peace between the two nations and all the current Israeli leaders wish for is for Israel to be recognized as a Jewish state by the Palestinians.
What ever happened to Israel’s demand for security? Has the new Israeli government achieved security for its people?The "If Americans Knew" web site also publishes and keeps current shocking... more
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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
WASHINGTON – Former White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales misled Congress when he claimed the CIA in 2002 approved information that ended up in the 2003 State of the Union speech about Iraq's alleged effort to buy uranium for its nuclear weapons program, a House Democrat said Thursday.
In a memo to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which he chairs, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., also expressed skepticism about assertions by then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice that she was unaware of the CIA's doubts about the claim before President George W. Bush's speech.House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
WASHINGTON – Former White... more
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It's hardly news that the U.S., like many countries, espouses standards that it routinely violates, but still, even in light of such routine hypocrisy, wouldn't you think that this, from Condoleezza Rice today, on an airplane to U.S. reporters while traveling to a NATO meeting, would be too brazen to utter:
Russia is a state that is unfortunately using the one tool that it has always used whenever it wishes to deliver a message and that's its military power. That's not the way to deal in the 21st century.
Whatever one's views are on the justifiability of each isolated instance, it's simply a fact that the U.S. invades, bombs, occupies, and interferes in the internal affairs of other countries far more than any other country on the planet. It's not even a close competition.It's hardly news that the U.S., like many countries, espouses standards that it... more
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Thursday and said the United States and Iraq are close to a deal on the presence of U.S. troops beyond this year.
Rice denied reports that the deal on the U.S. troop presence has already been reached, but said it was close and she was hoping to learn from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki if there were any more tricky issues to resolve.BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit... more
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Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, arrived in Tbilisi today to bolster Georgia's position after it was routed by Russia in the conflict over South Ossetia.
She told reporters travelling with her that the immediate goal was to get Russian combat troops out of Georgia leaving more difficult questions to be addressed later.
But she said she would never ask Georgia to agree to something that was not in its best interests.
Washington has already warned that the fighting could set back Moscow's relations with the west for years, but has ruled out engaging militarily in the region.
Rice's visit came after the US sent military transport planes with humanitarian and medical supplies to Georgia, coupled with a warning from George Bush to Russia not to obstruct the aid effort.
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, was also meeting the Russian president, Dimitry Medvedev, at the Black Sea resort of Sochi today as international efforts continued to reduce tensions.
Poland's agreement last night to station interceptor rockets at missile silos as part of a US missile defence shield in the Baltic region was today leading to even more frosty relations between Washington and Moscow.
The US says the shield is aimed at Iran, but Russia's Nato ambassador, Dmitry Rogozin, told Reuters news agency that "the fact that this was signed in a period of very difficult crisis in the relations between Russia and the United States over the situation in Georgia shows that of course the missile defence system will be deployed not against Iran but the strategic potential of Russia."
Despite a draft French-brokered ceasefire that required Russian and Georgian forces to return to preconflict positions, Moscow's forces today remained deep in what was Georgian-controlled territory, well outside the disputed regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Georgia has still not formally signed the ceasefire agreement, which allows Russian peacekeepers to remain in South Ossetia.
Russian troops were today still blocking the entrance to Gori, which sits on Georgia's main east-west road, although they allowed in some humanitarian supplies.
Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, warned that "Russia's invasion of Georgia strikes at the heart of western values". In an article for the Washington Post newspaper reprinted in today's Guardian, he said: "If the international community allows Russia to crush our democratic independent state, it will be giving carte blanche to authoritarian governments everywhere."
But the Kremlin has dismissed western insistence that Georgia's territorial integrity forms the basis of any settlement of the conflict, fuelling fears that it is bent on annexing South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The international organisation Human Rights Watch said today it had collected evidence of Russian warplanes using cluster bombs against civilian areas in Georgia, saying military aircraft killed at least 11 civilians and injured dozens of others in Gori and the village of Ruisi on Tuesday.
This was denied by the Russian general staff.
Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, arrived in Tbilisi today to bolster... more
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If there are any bounty hunters out there, Auckland Unversity Student Union is offering a $5000 reward to anyone who can make a successful citizens arrest of Condeleeza Rice when she visits Auckland this weekend.
Do you think you're up to it?
If there are any bounty hunters out there, Auckland Unversity Student Union is... more
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The Zimbabwe elections are over but the political discourse seems to have just begun. The White House has joined many other countries around the world in voicing a negative response to the so-called democratic elections.The Zimbabwe elections are over but the political discourse seems to have just begun.... more
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Here's an easy way to make a difference. Go to the site, click on the 'send a letter' line, fill in your details as appropriate, modify the subject and the body of the letter to your liking and off it goes to your representative(s) to ask them to stand up for 'The People' and make this Executive Branch accountable by proceeding to Impeach.Here's an easy way to make a difference. Go to the site, click on the 'send... more
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Jimmy Carter is accusing Sec. State Rice of being untruthful after she stated that she had advised him not to speak with Hamas on his recent visit to the middle eastJimmy Carter is accusing Sec. State Rice of being untruthful after she stated that she... more
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"This disclosure presents a nested series of legal implications. "I predict that there will be calls for top administration officials to be prosecuted in an international court for war crimes," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a civil liberties expert who teaches at Duke University Law School. "This meeting supports the involvement of top officials -- including the president -- in approving torture."
New pressure for top Bush administration officials to be prosecuted in an international court of war crimes. Hard to imagine the McCain campaign seriously considering Condoleezza Rice as a vice presidential candidate given this information."This disclosure presents a nested series of legal implications. "I predict... more
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I call bullshit on this, plus there is no way McCain would want a woman as his running mate.
I call bullshit on this, plus there is no way McCain would want a woman as his... more
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"For every one Oprah, a billionaire, you've got five million blacks who are out of work," he said. "For every one Colin Powell, a millionaire, you've got 10 million blacks who cannot read. For every one Condoskeeza [sic] Rice, you've got one million in prison. For every one Tiger Woods, who needs to get beat, at the Masters, with his cap-blazing hips, playing on a course that discriminates against women. For every one Tiger Woods, we got 10,000 black kids who will never see a golf course."
Tiger Woods needs to get beat? Beat on the golf course, ha! not likely, the man is playing like a god among men and hopefully Rev. Wright isn't wishing Tiger to get beaten physically...plus I've never been on a golf course, is it cause I'm Spanish or poor, I'm thinking its cause I'm poor, which really sucks, oh well poor me."For every one Oprah, a billionaire, you've got five million blacks who are... more
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Following Kosovo's declaration of independence last week, and the subsequent violence at British and American Embassies, protesters in a northern 'ethnically-split' region of Kosovo, have reportedly continued to burn an EU flag every day since Kosovo' succession to Serbia.
The Serbs consider Kosovo as the heart of their ancient homeland as well as being a 'cradle of their Serbian Orthodox faith,' and claim Kosovo's declaration of independence is illegal, with protesters also burning a poster showing US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with Serbia's pro-Western president, Boris Tadic.
There are also splits in Serbian politics, with Tadic opposing the independence but not wanting any detriment to economic and political ties, whereas Serbian Prime Minister, Vojislav Kostunica, has proposed that all states who recognise Kosovo's independence, should be cut from any such ties.
What does the future hold for Serbia and Kosovo?Following Kosovo's declaration of independence last week, and the subsequent... more
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A former flight instructer who gave information leading to the conviction of Zacarias Moussaoui has been rewarded £2.5 million ($5 miliion). Keeping his identity a secret he was awarded the reward at a private ceremony at the State Department - the pay out was reportedly authorised in secret last Autumn by Condeleeza Rice.
"To ensure the safety of the individuals involved and the viability of the program, we do not discuss the identities of those who cooperate with Rewards for Justice," said Gonzalo Gallegos, a State Department spokesman.
With rewards so high can the information used in the conviction be trusted? If you were offered $5 million to say something would you say it? What I also find interesting is that he has been rewarded seven years after the attack, and crucially the court case. If the jury had known that the informant was to recieve such a huge reward for his information would it have affected their decision?
Moussaoui attended flight training courses at Airman Flight School in Norman, Oklahoma but despite more than 50 hours of flying lessons, he failed and left without a Private Pilot License.
Your comments are welcome, so fire up those webcams.A former flight instructer who gave information leading to the conviction of Zacarias... more
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