Word: condoleezza
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...that Tenet, the ultimate staff guy, is partly to blame for this failure of nerve. When Secretary of State Colin Powell was putting together his now discredited speech to the U.N. last year about Saddam's WMD program, he stood virtually alone against the hard-liners, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy Stephen Hadley, all of whom seemed keen to pump up the Secretary's talking points. Cheney's staff handed Powell a 50-page draft of allegations; the Secretary rejected most of them as unsupportable, with the hard-liners, Rice and even Tenet fighting him every step...
...sought to buy uranium from Niger, an assertion that made it into Bush's State of the Union address in January 2003. By June it was plain that the claim was based on intelligence that the CIA should have known was highly suspect. On June 7, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice asked Powell to make appearances on the Sunday-morning talk shows defending the CIA. During a conference call with more than half a dozen Administration officials, he refused. "I'm not gonna do it," said Powell, according to a source who was in on the call...
...Information Collection Program (ICP), an I.N.C.-run operation aimed at gathering intel on the former regime--came on May 8, according to someone familiar with the plan. It occurred at a principals' meeting attended by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and CIA director George Tenet. On May 13, DIA officials who worked with the I.N.C. abandoned their office in Baghdad. The next day, the Iraqis who had been working there brought three trucks into the compound to take away files and computers from the office. A confidant of Chalabi's says...
...Bush administration's best efforts to recover from the Arab-world PR disaster of Abu Ghraib. Ironically, part of the Bush administration's emergency PR salvage operation in the wake of the prison-abuse revelations was to hastily send Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to hold talks with Palestinian Authority prime minister Ahmed Qurei, to signal Arab leaders that Washington still sought to restart a negotiation process. But unless such dialogue evolves into a substantial new negotiation process that includes the Palestinian leadership - an unlikely eventuality in a U.S. election year - there's little...
...National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said in an interview this week that "things could get really bad in the coming weeks." The anticipation of a spike in violence before June 30 is conventional wisdom among Coalition officials. But whether anything that happens on that day serves to tamp down violence in its wake remains to be seen...