Soooo, was Susan Rice the Special Assistant to Joe Wilson or Mary McCarthy??
A Reminder
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/7/29/132456.shtml
Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:20 p.m. EDT
Another Clinton Terror War Bungler in Key Kerry Post
Another ex-Clinton official who played a leading role in bungling efforts to capture and/or neutralize Osama bin Laden has turned up in a key advisory position with the Kerry campaign.
Susan Rice, who served as President Clinton's Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, had earlier been tapped by Gov. Howard Dean's anti-war campaign.
This week, however, Rice emerged as a foreign policy advisor to the Kerry Edwards campaign, which is still reeling from revelations that another key advisor, former Clinton national security chief Sandy Berger, had stolen national security secrets.
Rice is also acting as the campaign's designated apologist for former ambassador Joe Wilson, the Kerry advisor whose claims that "Bush lied" about Iraq uranium were exposed as bogus by the Senate Intelligence Committee two weeks ago.
"As far as I know, we have no reason to believe that Mr. Wilson's words and deeds were not as he spoke them," Rice told reporters this week. "I have great respect for his integrity."
The same can't be said of Rice, however, at least according to several of her former colleagues, who say she deserves a hefty portion of blame for the fact that Osama bin Laden wasn't neutralized during the 1990s.
"The FBI, in 1996 and 1997, had their efforts to look at terrorism data and deal with the bin Laden issue overruled every single time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the Sudan," one-time Clinton diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz told radio host Sean Hannity in 2002.
Richard Miniter, author of the book "Losing bin Laden," concurred, saying Rice played a key role in scuttling the deal that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
In November 2003, Miniter told World Magazine that while Sudan was anxious to turn bin Laden over to the U.S., Rice - then a member of Clinton's National Security Council - questioned Khartoum's credibility.
"Rice [cited] the suffering of Christians [in Sudan] as one reason that she doubted the integrity of the Sudanese offers," said Miniter. "But her analysis largely overlooked the view of U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Tim Carney, who argued for calling Khartoum's bluff."
According to Miniter, Carney argued that the Clinton White House should "accept their offer of Mr. bin Laden and see if the National Islamic Front actually hands him over."
If Sudan complied, "we would have taken a major terrorist off the streets," he said. If they didn't, "the civilized world will see that, once again, Sudan's critics are proven right."
In a 2002 Washington Post op-ed piece co-authored with Ijaz, former ambassador Carney described Sen. Kerry's new adviser as a major obstacle to accepting offers from Sudan to share intelligence on bin Laden's terrorist network.
In April 1997, they said, Sudan dropped its demand that Washington lift sanctions in exchange for terrorism cooperation.
"Sudan's policy shift sparked a debate at the State Department, where foreign service officers believed the United States should reengage Khartoum. By the end of summer 1997, [those officers] persuaded incoming Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to let at least some diplomatic staff return to Sudan to press for a resolution of the civil war and pursue offers to cooperate on terrorism.
"Two individuals, however, disagreed. NSC terrorism specialist Richard Clarke and NSC Africa specialist Susan Rice, who was about to become assistant secretary of State for African affairs."
Rice and Clarke persuaded Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger to overrule Albright on the Sudanese terrorism overtures, said Ijaz and Carney.
Still, Sudan made yet another attempt to share intelligence on bin Laden and al-Qaida with the White House, repeating the unconditional offer to hand over terrorism data to the FBI in a February 1998 letter addressed directly to Middle East and North Africa special agent-in-charge David Williams.
"But the White House and Susan Rice objected," wrote Ijaz and Carney. "On June 24, 1998, Williams wrote to Mahdi, saying he was 'not in a position to accept your kind offer.'"
U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were destroyed by bin Laden six weeks later, in a suicide bombing attack that killed 253.
Combating Catastrophic Terror (Late Oct. '05)
A Security Strategy for the Nation
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=1138615
Featuring:
Susan Rice, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1997-2001)
Rand Beers, President, Valley Forge Initiative; former Counterterrorism Adviser on the National Security Council (1988-1998, 2002-2003); and former Assistant Security of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (1998-2003)
Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, University of Maryland, and Senior Fellow, the Saban Center, The Brookings Institution
Moderated by:
John D. Podesta, President and CEO, The Center for American Progress Action Fund, and former White House Chief of Staff (1998-2001)
The United States needs a comprehensive long-term strategy to fight the greatest threat to the American people: violent extremists who, often in the name of Islam, seek to use catastrophic terror to achieve their goals. Is America ready for this threat? Specifically, do we have the right policies and structures in place to fight terrorism and to secure the homeland? Are we on the right track or the wrong track when it comes to this key national security challenge?
A panel of experts will present and discuss Combating Catastrophic Terror A Security Strategy for the Nation, a new report that provides answers to these questions and sets out a comprehensive, integrated approach to the greatest threat Americans face. The report was formed in response to requests from Congressional leaders and came together over several months. It offers members of Congress and officials at the local, state and national levels a clear understanding of the threat and the stakes -- and specific recommendations for a new counterterrorism strategy.
After you read the transcript, you may want to read the whole report:
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=1138607
Oh, here's who contributed to the full report btw:
Madeleine K. Albright
Samuel R. Berger
Donald A. Baer
Rand Beers
Daniel Benjamin
Robert O. Boorstin
Kurt M. Campbell
Richard Clarke
Bill Danvers
Thomas E. Donilon
Thomas J. Downey
Leon Fuerth
Suzanne George
John Podesta
Steve Ricchetti
Susan E. Rice
Wendy R. Sherman
Gayle Smith
Jeffrey H. Smith
Tara Sonenshine
Jim Steinberg
Shibley Telhami
Toni G. Verstandig[*]
http://www.anklebitingpundits.com/index.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1203
Failed Clinton and Kerry Flunky Attacks Bolton
Date: Tuesday, 08 March 2005 (07:30:13) EST
Topic: President Bush
In a Washington Post editorial today (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15521-2005Mar7.html), someone named Susan Rice attacks the nomination of John Bolton to be UN Ambassador. We've already told you why we love the nomination.
But what you may not know is just who exactly Dr. Susan Rice is, and why she should be the last person on earth to criticize Bolton.
First, let's look at some of Susan Rice's criticism of Bolton. In addition to her concerns about Bolton's dislike of such thinks as the International Criminal Court and the ABM Rice says:
Quote:
Bolton has testified against U.N. involvement in Congo, an inter-state conflict that has cost 3 million lives. He blasted the United Nations' concept of operations for its Ethiopia-Eritrea operation and rejected the U.N. civil administration missions in Kosovo and East Timor. Will Bolton undergo such a conversion on the road to First Avenue that he can effectively support U.N. peace operations?
Finally, Bolton criticized any " 'right of humanitarian intervention' to justify military operations to prevent ethnic cleansing or potential genocide." One must wonder how forcefully he will work to halt what the administration deems genocide in Darfur.
And just who is this woman?
Well we first wrote on Dr. Susan Rice back in August of 2004, when she was a "senior advisor" for the Kerry campaign, and in line to become his National Security Advisor. As we told you back then, Rice was national security record is disgraceful, as she was instrumental in the refusal of the US to accept Sudan's offer to hand over Bin Laden. Before shilling for Kerry she was a "senior adviser" to Howard Dean.
http://www.anklebitingpundits.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=728
But it is perhaps most off putting when Ms. Rice discusses her concern for genocide in places like Darfur and the Congo, considering that while in the Clinton administration during the Rwanda crisis, she wondered first about the political ramifications of whether or not US Troops should go into Rwanda. And we all know how that turned out.
http://www.nationalreview.com/geraghty/geraghty200312190845.asp
But I'm glad she wrote this piece. It again reminds us why the American people made the right decision in November. Dr. Susan Rice is far less dangerous to our national security writing in the Washington Post than she would have been looking after our security.
She was also a top Kerry advisor ..just like Rand Beers, Joe Wilson and Sandy Berger (till Burger got caught stuffing papers down his pants)
Also .. remember back during the campaign and all the stuff about the ports Kerry yapped about and no one could figure out where he got his information from???