Posted on 07/21/2005 6:02:29 PM PDT by paulat
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So by the time we finally did get in, there were Sudanese officials saying, "Don't ask any questions," and American officials saying, "No agreements. No deals." And we went in, and I asked President el-Bashir why, in essence, anyone should believe his promises when his government has said repeatedly that it will stop the violence and then it continues to support the militias that are doing the killing. At which point two guys came up behind me, two of his armed security guards, and grabbed me from behind and started pulling me out the door. I tried to keep my balance so that I didn't go down. And they shoved me out the door. Rice was furious and came back as soon as we got to the airport to leave for the refugee camp.
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(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
BUMP!
LOL. Yeah, they're always in bed with the enemy, aren't they.
The old crow's just lucky she didn't get a few "reports" from the armed security guards. Bang, bang, bang...!
Does Sec. Rice travel without SS protection?
Without any protection?
When she was isolated from her party it should have been Code Red and about 5 minutes from calling in Air Strikes.
So9
Its all about Andrea, Read the article ,no mention of her thanking Dr. Rice for her concern. Ungrateful ------you fill in the blank.
I don't know what she's complaining about. Afterall, being married to Alan Greenspan, it's probably the most excitement she's had in years.
Andrea judges a society based on one thing: Do they have freedom of the press?
Mass murder is OK. Censorship is not.
...it probably gave her "irrational exuberance"....
Did they ask her what the frequency was? How about the prime lending rate?
Nah. Their dogmatic hubris has oozed out of them for so long, it's scabbed over into a putrid crust of self-righteous delusion. An African dictator could beat someone like her to the point of death with a bronze bust of Karl Marx, and somehow, it would still be Bush's/conservatives'/America's fault. Let those animals swat her. It's the only poetic justice we're likely to see.
Beth Wilkinson (Latham & Watkins). At the Justice Department a decade ago, Wilkinson gained experience in trial work and expertise in terrorism through her work on the prosecution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Both skills are now valuable in her private practice.
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In her early forties, Wilkinson is married to NBC White House correspondent David Gregory.
bttt
That pocked marked faced communist beach, and alan {the only thing that I can raise is interest rates} greenspan usually pays for men to "push" her. She becomes really indignant when someone uses force to stop her silly and stupid questions. I only wish that Scott McClealan would open a fire hose when those White House reporters???? "axed" those long rambling non-questions that demand an answer of "Go xxxxxx yourself, you stupid idiot".
Andrea, "Unhand me! Don't you know who I am!"
Local Thug, "Yes, you worn out Amerikan Hag, Ask questions. Boss Man no like. Boss Man say Buh-bye."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050721/ap_en_tv/tv_nbc_mitchell_1
EXCERPT
Mitchell, in a telephone interview after leaving a Sudanese refugee camp and arriving in
Israel, said that attitude emboldened her.
"It makes me even more determined when dictators and alleged war criminals are not held to account," she said. "If our government is going to establish a relationship and push for a new beginning as Sudan reforms itself, they have to live up to international standards. A free press is part of that process."
Although el-Bashir has denied government involvement, the U.S. and international organizations say his government has equipped militiamen to massacre villagers in the rural Darfur province.
"Can you tell us why the violence is continuing?" Mitchell asked, as a Sudanese official said "no, no, no, please."
"Can you tell us why the government is supporting the militias?" she asked.
After getting no reply from el-Bashir, she asked, "Why should Americans believe your promises?"
It was then that she was forcibly removed.
"It is our job to ask," she said later. "They can always say `no comment' ... but to drag a reporter out just for asking is inexcusable behavior."
Afterward, Mitchell said she was "angry, embarrassed, humiliated" and upset that she had become part of an attention-getting incident. "Reporters don't want to become part of the story," she said.
Rice demanded an apology from the Sudanese government for the incident and, an hour later, the government's foreign minister called her on her airplane. Mitchell, the wife of
Federal Reserve Chairman
Alan Greenspan, said no one from Sudan has gotten in touch with her.
"I would rather see them live up to their promises," she said. "What they did to me is not important. They can't control my life."
Ms. Beth Wilkinson attended Princeton University on a four-year Army ROTC scholarship and received her B.A. in Politics, magna cum laude, in 1984. In 1987, she was awarded her J.D. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
After being selected for the Army's Honors Program, Ms. Wilkinson served as a captain and an assistant to the Army General Counsel for intelligence, special operations, and national security matters from 1987-1991. During her tenure, she was assigned to the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida for six months to assist the United States v. Noriega prosecution team with litigation regarding the use of classified information.
Ms. Wilkinson completed her four-year obligation with the Army and was appointed an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 1991.
In 1995, Ms. Wilkinson received the Justice Department's highest award, The Attorney General's Exceptional Service Award, for her efforts in the Mosquera case. That same year, she was selected to serve as Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General for criminal law matters. She advised the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General on a variety of criminal law policy issues and sensitive investigations.
Following her assignment in the Deputy Attorney General's Office, Ms. Wilkinson was appointed Principal Deputy Chief of the Terrorism and Violent Crime Section of the Criminal Division at the Justice Department.
In January 1996, Ms. Wilkinson joined the prosecution team of the Oklahoma City bombing case, United States v. McVeigh & Nichols. After working several months in Oklahoma City, the trial team moved to Denver when the trial judge transferred the case. Ms. Wilkinson presented the testimony of Jennifer McVeigh, most of the expert witnesses during the McVeigh trial, and gave the government's closing argument in the penalty phase. She also delivered both of the closing arguments in the Nichols trial.
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