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What prompted Condoleezza Rice to break a self-imposed silence on the Bush Administration's controversial use of harsh interrogation techniques on terror detainees...
...planned, but that she was simply responding to questions in public settings. Others suggest she's determined not to let former Vice President Dick Cheney, who left office with a popularity rating in the sub-basement, become history's spokesman for Bush policy on Gitmo. In either case, Rice's recent comments mean she will be drawn into the widening debate about the Administration's record on interrogation. (See pictures of inside Guantanamo...
...Monday, Rice returned to the subject at greater length during a Q&A session with students at a primary school in Washington. Bush, she said, was determined to protect the country after 9/11, but "was very clear that we would do nothing...that was against the law or against our obligations internationally. So the President was only willing to authorize policies that were legal in order to protect the country...
...Rice's spokesman, Colby Cooper, cautions against reading too much into the timing of her defense of her former boss. "She was asked a question, and she's not going to not answer a question if asked," he says...
...just because members of Bush's inner circle might remain united in their faith that their policies were sound doesn't mean that they agree about who is best positioned to argue their case in public now. In fact, some former Bush Administration officials are relieved Rice spoke up because she does a better job, in their view, of representing the former President's thinking than Cheney. "Condi's view is more nuanced, and it's a more accurate reflection of President Bush's thinking - Cheney's take is his own," says one former Bush official familiar with the internal...