In Memoir, Rice Tells of Clashes With Cheney

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Source: NY Times

Condoleezza Rice clashed repeatedly with Vice President Dick Cheney over what to do with captured terrorism suspects and at one point even threatened to resign when she felt circumvented, according to a memoir of her time in Washington, due out next month.

In the book, Ms. Rice provides a vivid account of the tumultuous years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, when the Bush administration struggled to reinvent the national security structure to protect the country from a new kind of enemy. Along the way, she writes, the president’s team disagreed sometimes heatedly.

First as national security adviser and later as secretary of state, Ms. Rice often argued against the hard-line approach that Mr. Cheney and others advanced. The vice president’s staff was “very much of one ultra-hawkish mind,” she writes, adding that the most intense confrontation between her and Mr. Cheney came when she argued that terrorism suspects could not be “disappeared” as in some authoritarian states.

In November 2001, she writes, she went to President George W. Bush upon learning that he had issued an order prepared by the White House counsel, Alberto R. Gonzales, authorizing military commissions without telling her. “If this happens again,” she told the president, “either Al Gonzales or I will have to resign.”

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[EFerrari]

1. Backfill. Most people who know how that admin worked

said there was little or no discussion at all and that decisions were made off stage all the time, with the rest falling in line. Condi is still a big fat liar.

[malaise]

8. True but she's just making sure that

she's not going to the Hague for war crimes. :evilgrin:

[No Elephants]

2. No one should buy these books, not even libraries. Lying war criminals.

[onethatcares]

3. would you buy a used car from her?

I didn't think so.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. yeah yeah yeah...bla bla blah. I will never waste a second reading/listening to anything

that comes out of any of that evil cabals' mouths.

Life is too short and precious to entertain the rantings of criminals.

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[lumpy]

6. She, as well as Powell should have resigned if they felt

Bush/Cheney were in the wrong. Guess they were more interested in retaining their positions in Bush's administration. Hard to believe anything that women has to say.

[Kahuna]

7. ...

:boring:

[annabanana]

9. "I didn't do it"

Not impressed.