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What about her past makes you think she would have this position?
by talmand 13y ago
What about her past makes you think she would have this position?
- joshstrange 13y agoRice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war, former officials say [0] >> Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended Bush's actions, telling "Fox News Sunday" the president had authorized the National Security Agency "to collect information on a limited number of people with connections to al Qaeda." >> ... >> Asked why the president authorized skipping the FISA court, Rice said the war on terrorism was a "different type of war" that gives the commander in chief "additional authorities." [1] >> Wolf Blitzer Interview with Condoleezza Rice on Domestic Wiretap Controversy [2] [0] http://rawstory.com/news/2005/After_domestic_spying_reports_U.S._spying_1227.html http://rawstory.com/news/2005/After_domestic_spying_reports_... [1] http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/18/bush.nsa/ http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/18/bush.nsa/ [2] http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/26/sitroom.03.html http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/26/sitroom.03.ht...
- dzink 13y agoJosh, that just tells you she is able to defend and promote the interests of the organization she works for.
- joshstrange 13y agoSo it's fine for someone to have no morals as long as they are good at their job?
- dzink 13y agoMorals are essential. But we are judging them without knowing facts. We know neither why Drew, one of our own, had to make the hire, nor what kind of choices she was really faced with in the past. The position of Diplomat is a very tricky one in politics. In fact many opposition leaders get hired into it (including Hillary) because a Diplomat HAS TO parrot the decisions of the administration.
- vdaniuk 13y agoAs soon as Drew is ready to shake hands with a person, directly or indirectly linked to mass war deaths, he ceases to be one of our own. For me, at least, this is the case.
- dzink 13y agoI don't see a reply button under your post so replying here.
- talmand 13y agoYes, I'm quite aware of all that. The part you quote is different than your claim. You say she authorized the NSA spying on the UN Security Council. Your quote says the President authorized spying on a limited number of people with connections to a known terrorist organization. You may not see the difference there but I do. But I fail to see how her actions in the Bush administration leads to her somehow allowing the NSA to spy into everybody's Dropbox account simply because she's a member of the board. I'll ask a question more relevant to the topic at hand. Rice is and has been the member of several boards of various companies, are you suggesting that she did so solely for the purpose of extracting information to hand over to her NSA masters? Or could this just be a partisan complaint that is in the fringes of conspiracy theory?
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