Condoleezza Rice & the 9-11 Commission [LIVE THREAD] 9AM EST

http://c-span.org/ ^ | 4-8-04 | ME

[OXENinFLA]

Rice Testifies Before 9/11 Cmsn. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testifies before the Sept. 11 Commission.

[b4its2late]

Ben Veniste is a butt head. (Polite version)

[Jorge]

Rice says she must emphasize the structural and legal impediments that existed on sharing information. She goes into great detail.

Her intelligence and grasp of foreign policy, the issue of terrorism and the workings of govt makes nearly everybody else who speaks about it or questions her sound like an amateur.

[Catspaw]

And here comes Ben-Veniste. Things should get more lively now.

Kick butt, Condi!

[Indy Pendance]

FYI..... Good stuff here, what an amazingly educated woman.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/ricebio.html

Biography of
Dr. Condoleezza Rice
National Security Advisor

Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001.

In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.

As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.

At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.

From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.

She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.

Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, and the University of Louisville in 2004. She resides in Washington, D.C.

March 2004

[snooker]

Hope so ...

[txradioguy]

Ben-Vinestie sounded condescending and in-sincere in his greeting to Dr. Rice.

Gonna be interesting to see how much he tries to play "Gotcha" with her.

Poor Ben-Vineste is walking into a gunfight with a pocket knife.

[Mo1]

Was she? I got the impression that she was reading from a transcript that the WH kept of the President's interview with Woodward. Putting into context that which Woodward had twisted.

That is what I meant

I should have used the word transcript instead of notes

[areafiftyone]

Exactly right. We needed to open Wall Street ASAP to show Al Qaeda that we were going to keep on going regardless and also to not keep the American people out of work any longer because if the Stock Market was closed - alot of companies were going to be closed too. That was a smart thing.

[mewzilla]

I thought it's from Woodward's new book, the one that just happens to be coming out before the election and is published by Simon & Shyster. But I could be wrong :) Anyone know for sure?

[don-o]

Got it Sam. Thanks

The Fednet link is holding up for now.

[Just mythoughts]

Wonder if Hillry has prepped him will... Pdp's common lingo.

[MamaLucci]

I wonder if there is a 'Hillary Clinton' staffer behind one of these Democrat member of this commission, a la Watergate.

Richard Ben Veniste.

[petercooper]

benveniste is like a bad slick used car salesman

[mabelkitty]

Actually, that's a good quote.
It shows he was thinking of keeping the damage to our economy at a minimum.

[cyborg]

azzhat

[texasbluebell]

I can't even stand to look a this man, BV. He's got an evil face.

[JFC]

Who is he?

[EllaMinnow]

Big SMOOCH for your unfailingly clear-eyed optimism!

[Quilla]

Thanks for the link - I'll save it as Pirate Radio! ;-)

[mtbopfuyn]

Shut up BV and let her answer.