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27 Jul 2017, 9:44 am by Rachel Bercovitz
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is expected to nominate Michael Evanoff, former head of personal security detail to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during Rice’s time in office. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 12:38 pm
In the past 50 years, the most contentious confirmations for secretary of state were those of Condoleezza Rice in 2005, who passed by a vote of 85 to 13, and Henry Kissinger in 1973, who was confirmed 78 to 7.I wonder how many people take this "contentiousness" seriously as anything about Tillerson as opposed to Democratic Senators dedicated to obstructing Trump.There's also the news that Jeff Sessions has been approved by the Judiciary Committee:The action came on a… [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 11:45 am by Michael Froomkin
See also this blistering analysis by Elliot Cohen, formerly a counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, A Clarifying Moment in American History: There is in this week’s events the foretaste of things to come. [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 6:24 am by J. Paul Pope
  Despite a vigorous defense citing the importance of not “politicizing” the PDB from Vice President Cheney, White House Council Alberto Gonzales, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and others, the commission was, in the end, provided access to over 100 relevant PDB’s, and two were declassified. [read post]
6 Aug 2016, 5:20 am
” Here's how a similar slip from Condoleezza Rice was treated back in 2004:Could preternaturally self-composed National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice actually have a roiling inner life? [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 9:45 am
” Yet El-Masri was not freed and allowed to return to his family in Germany until May of that year after former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice ordered it. [read post]
16 May 2016, 7:53 am by Jonathan H. Adler
 I know a couple years ago, folks on this campus got upset that Condoleezza Rice was supposed to speak at a commencement. [read post]
7 May 2016, 11:23 am by John Bellinger
  Secretary Rumsfeld was famous for his many bluntly worded “snowflakes” (many included as an appendix in his memoirs) to then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice complaining about all aspects of NSC processes from NSC staff contacts with the JCS and Combatant Commanders to the use of “we” in memos written by NSC staff. [read post]
2 May 2016, 2:51 pm by Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz
  In recent years, such luminaries as former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali and many others all received this shabby treatment for not toeing the radical progressive line. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 9:57 am by Jack Goldsmith
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice) stated:  “On preemption, preemption is not a new concept. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 4:20 am
For example, Condoleezza Rice had to say "'Mars Attacks' is awesome," in this montage. [read post]
8 Nov 2015, 8:25 am by John Bellinger
   When she became National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice decided to retain the lawyers group. [read post]
26 Jul 2015, 5:56 am by Howard Friedman
In 2007, when Al Qaeda was kidnapping and killing priests in Mosul, Nina Shea, who was then a U.S. commissioner for religious freedom, says she approached the secretary of state at the time, Condoleezza Rice, who told her the United States didn’t intervene in ‘‘sectarian’’ issues. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 11:00 pm
’ Yoo also confirmed that in drafting his memo authorizing the CIA program, he had considered the intent and effect of the February 2002 memo, and concluded that it posed no bar.The declassified documents also reveal that Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser, and John Bellinger, her lawyer, both of whom many years later sought to restrict use of the CIA’s techniques, were personally and intimately involved in the initial approval of the tactics. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 9:46 am by Tara Hofbauer
Among others, the trip includes current Secretary of State John Kerry, former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and James Baker, former National Security Advisors Brent Scowcroft, Sandy Berger, and Stephen Hadley, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ). [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 11:15 am by Sebastian Brady
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified for the prosecution in the trial of a former CIA officer accused of leaking classified material regarding a CIA spying program. [read post]
That would confirm that, despite her claim to the contrary, Condoleezza Rice, a member of the council then and later secretary of state, would have known that mistakes had been made resulting in Khaled's wrongful rendition and detention when she visited Germany in December 2005. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 1:02 am by rhapsodyinbooks
She was a student at Center Street Elementary School, where she had many friends including the future Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 9:01 pm by John Dean
Senator from Nebraska); Nikki Haley (governor of South Carolina); Susana Martinez (governor of New Mexico); Sarah Palin (former governor of Alaska and 2008 vice presidential nominee, still has a significant GOP following); Condoleezza Rice (from national security adviser and Secretary of State); and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (congresswoman from Washington). [read post]