Report: Condi rejects Cheney’s ‘attack on my integrity’
EmailFormer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is hitting back at former Vice President Dick Cheney, who in his new book, “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,” reportedly accused her of being naïve during nuclear negotiations with North Korea and of misleading her superiors about the talks.
“I kept the president fully and completely informed about every in and out of the negotiations with the North Koreans,” Rice told Reuters today in her first comments on the matter.
“You can talk about policy differences without suggesting that your colleague somehow misled the president. You know, I don’t appreciate the attack on my integrity that that implies,” the former top American diplomat added in the interview.
Rice’s office did not return an email for comment.
The feud between Cheney and Rice over the Bush administration’s North Korea policy is nothing new. The two were said to have dueled for influence on the matter as Rice sought to strike a deal with Kim Jong Il that would remove his nuclear weapons stockpile.
Rice eventually won out when the Bush administration agreed to remove North Korea from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, and there were signs that Cheney was not happy about it. A June 2008 New York Times article reports that Cheney abruptly canceled an off-the-record session with foreign policy experts when asked about the North Korea policy. According to the report, Cheney froze for several seconds when asked, then referred the questioner to the State Department and ended the event.
Later that year, in the waning days of the administration, Rice’s negotiator, Christopher Hill, triumphantly returned from Pyongyang declaring that North Korea had agreed to abandon its nuclear ambitions. Not long after, North Korea was removed from the terror list.
However, North Korea never followed through. It turns out Hill never got the agreement in writing, and U.S. officials at the time said that Rice was furious and chewed out her negotiator. Ultimately the talks fell apart, and have remained stalled ever since.
The next volley in the Rice-Cheney battle comes out later this fall, when Rice publishes her own book.
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Who cares? Rice lied for her boss W and W lied for his boss Cheney. Again…who cares?
Posted by: ruff karver | August 31, 2011, 7:57 pm 7:57 pm
Rice’s primary and overarching purpose while filling the job as National Security Advisor was to ensure that the President received all relevant information necessary for ensuring the security of the United States and the safety of its citizens from foreign attack. The fact that the 9/11 attacks occurred on her watch was the single greatest failure of that position in the history of the nation. A person with actual integrity would have resigned immediately. Instead she was allowed to get away with the inane lie that “no one could have imagined”, remain in her job, be rewarded for her gross incompetence by being named Secretary of State and skate through the confirmation process without fully justified grilling and rejection by the peoples’ representatives. Her chief asset while serving as Secretary of State was her winning smile, which served to dampen slightly the effect of European Bush hate-mongers. Her original expertise was on ‘Cold’ War Soviet Russia, and that long-irrelevant mind-set prohibited the nation from reaching an intelligent accommodation with today’s vastly different Russia – a meaningful partnership that would have made the “War On Terrorism” significantly easier that it has been with the slacker Europeans. Rice owes her status today to her gender and to her race, and to nothing else. All packaging; zero substance. All rights; zero responsibility. Let’s please not redefine “integrity” to suit politically correct dictate; anyone else would have crawled into a hole and disappeared forever – with the peoples’ eternal gratification.
Posted by: Soldier | September 1, 2011, 4:08 am 4:08 am
Condo, you need to have integrity for it to be attacked.
Posted by: Tom | September 1, 2011, 4:30 am 4:30 am
What should be clear is that those who voted for the Bush ticket were duped. Pres. Bush amd Dick Cheney had/has little integrity.
Posted by: amused123 | September 1, 2011, 6:43 am 6:43 am
Clearly this person doe NOT understand how the white house REALLY operates. Getting information in front of the President it one problem. The chief of staff plays an enormous role in “handling” the president. Having the president make a rational decision is quite another.
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RUFF KARVER | AUGUST 31, 2011, 7:57 PM 7:57 PM
Rice’s primary and overarching purpose while filling the job as National Security Advisor was to ensure that the President received all relevant information necessary for ensuring the security of the United States and the safety of its citizens from foreign attack
Posted by: amused123 | September 1, 2011, 6:47 am 6:47 am
Rice was Bush’s primary teacher about foreign affairs before, during and after the election. She was among his and his family’s closest confidents and personal friends. Besides all this, no National Security Advisor has ever had any difficulty at all in briefing the President on any matter of national security at any hour of the day or night. Any nonsense that someone did or could filter her access to the President is just smoke blown from a position of ignorance. It was her job, and the job for which her boss had selected her. Furthermore, I have spent my life in the intelligence/national security arena at the national level. The threat had been there for years.
Posted by: Soldier | September 1, 2011, 10:13 am 10:13 am
Pots and Kettles attacking one others integrity. You mean these people have integrity?
Ego, greed, warmongering for oil and fear induction are not integrity. There was no integrity present anywhere in the White House on 9/11.
Posted by: Jean | September 1, 2011, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm
Condi got sucked in! That’s what happens when you work with liars and thieves
Posted by: justuspofolks | September 1, 2011, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm
LOL!…… This is just a reminder of the same kind of junk from the Republicans we’ll get if Perry is elected. Have another 8 years of “fun” America.
Posted by: Georgie_Bushie | September 1, 2011, 2:45 pm 2:45 pm
Sounds like Cheney was right and rice was wrong. If she is upset with being duped so be it???
Posted by: billy bob | September 1, 2011, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
They are all responsible for the downfall of the USA. PERIOD. IMO they all committed treason and did not uphold the constitution as required by the oath of office, in addition to crimes against humanity.
Posted by: Jean | September 1, 2011, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
Rice should take him out back and kick the crap out of him………….
Posted by: Searambler | September 1, 2011, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
Condi…Cheney…Dubya…What a grim reminder of the worst presidency our country has ever experienced.
Posted by: libertyjustice33 | September 1, 2011, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm
Well, actually, she is still is hot. You rock Condi! Forget the racists who hate you! Anyone who disagrees with you is a racist, just as those who disagree with the modern god Obama.
Posted by: TexBork | September 1, 2011, 9:46 pm 9:46 pm
She was noithing more than a ‘headbobber’ and/or a ‘lapdog’ for “W”. Someone who would NEVER confront his arrogance and stupidity. She was in ‘WAY OVER HER HEAD AND EXPERTISE’. In fact, I firmly believe she was one of the ‘biggest jokes’ of “W”‘s administration. And believe me….I hate to agree with ‘Darth Vader” on anything.
Posted by: CND FOX | September 2, 2011, 8:09 am 8:09 am
Who duped Whom? Cheney duped Bush. Cheney was picked to recruit a running mate for Bush jr.
What happened later is a classic coup., disservice ever there was one, abrogation of responsibility, wrongful usurpation with criminal intent, and plain deception and manipulation. Cheney is a crook and Nixon cannot touch or match him in a trillion years.
Posted by: Nwoke, Martis | September 12, 2011, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm