In Memoir, Rice Tells of Clashes With Cheney

NYTimes ^ | 10-22-11 | Peter Baker

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First as national security adviser and later as secretary of state, Ms. Rice often argued against the hard-line approach that Mr. Cheney and others advanced. The vice president’s staff was “very much of one ultra-hawkish mind,” she writes, adding that the most intense confrontation between her and Mr. Cheney came when she argued that terrorism suspects could not be “disappeared” as in some authoritarian states.

In November 2001, she writes, she went to President George W. Bush upon learning that he had issued an order prepared by the White House counsel, Alberto R. Gonzales, authorizing military commissions without telling her. “If this happens again,” she told the president, “either Al Gonzales or I will have to resign.”

[PhilDragoo]

Perhaps See No Evil in which he is interrupted pursuing the perp in the 1983 Beirut Embassy bombing when Clinton's Tony Lake sends the FBI to arrest him for plotting the assassination of Saddam Hussein. Clinton who labored for a Peace Prize and gave birth to Arafat's Intifada.