Condi Rice has left the political scene in Washington - for some not too soon! - and returned to academia.
Recently questioned at a talk she was giving at a Stanford University, she came up trumps on the old Richard Nixon line - that is, torture was OK because the President ordered it. Whew!
Writing on Harper's Magazine Scott Horton in a piece "Condi's Really Bad Day" dissects Condi, torture and her talk:
"For eight years, Condoleezza Rice dealt with the Beltway punditry and the access-craving White House press corps. The reception she got, with a handful of exceptions, was fawning. Which leaves her totally unprepared for a return to an academy populated with the Daily Show generation: bright young minds with a very critical attitude towards the last eight years. In a meeting with Stanford students at a dormitory reception on April 27, the school’s former provost got off to a shaky start and ended in a train wreck. She may in fact have her last words in the exchange quoted back to her some day in a law court."
Read the complete piece here - and remember to view the YouTube video clip of Condi.
Recently questioned at a talk she was giving at a Stanford University, she came up trumps on the old Richard Nixon line - that is, torture was OK because the President ordered it. Whew!
Writing on Harper's Magazine Scott Horton in a piece "Condi's Really Bad Day" dissects Condi, torture and her talk:
"For eight years, Condoleezza Rice dealt with the Beltway punditry and the access-craving White House press corps. The reception she got, with a handful of exceptions, was fawning. Which leaves her totally unprepared for a return to an academy populated with the Daily Show generation: bright young minds with a very critical attitude towards the last eight years. In a meeting with Stanford students at a dormitory reception on April 27, the school’s former provost got off to a shaky start and ended in a train wreck. She may in fact have her last words in the exchange quoted back to her some day in a law court."
Read the complete piece here - and remember to view the YouTube video clip of Condi.
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