Rice,Condoleeza

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Condoleeza Rice is the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution (->). From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the first Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations (See Cfr) , she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Rice was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan, The Rand Corporation (->) , the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors.

Condoleeza Rice was warned by Senator Gary Hart (CFR) five days before Sept. 11 on a possible terrorist attack. She received the copy of George Tenet's CIA-memo on a warning about an attack on August 6th, 2001 (-> Prior knowledge). Furthermore, US Congress-member Dana Rohrabacher (->) warned her a couple of days before the attack and tried to get an appointment with the US State of Department. Therefore, Rice was the only confirmed member of the US Government, who was warned by three individual persons a couple of weeks before Sep11th. http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/5/28/231650 Rice lied more than twice, i.e. in this press conference: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020516-13.html She claimed that they couldn't have thought up planes as weapons, when they'd done just that in Genoa a few months before. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/warningmemo020516.html Correction on CNN: "...An earlier version of this article incorrectly quoted national security adviser Condoleezza Rice's Thursday comments on intelligence reports last summer that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network might attempt to hijack a U.S. airliner. Rice said, "But the fact is this in retrospect even looks hard to put together. At the time, we were looking at something very different. To the degree that hijacking was an issue, it was traditional hijacking." Source http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/17/bush.sept.11/index.html Comment by DU-member, JeffC : "...Ms. Rice wants it both ways. She wants to say that there was nothing specific in the reports given to the president, she wants to say that only a traditional hijacking threat was being considered, to "take over an airliner, holding passengers and demand the release of one of their operatives," Rice said of the report's reference to al-Qaida." But at the same time, "She said the terrorists wanted to hijack a plane and demand the freedom of the "blind sheik" -- Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Egyptian cleric imprisoned for a plot to bomb targets in New York in the early 1990s."