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Ms. Condoleezza Rice


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May 2006: "Dr. Condoleezza Rice became Secretary of State on January 26, 2005. Prior to this, she was the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, since January 2001.

In June 1999, she completed a 6-year tenure as Stanford University 's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.

As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.

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. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.

From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the 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, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.

She 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 and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula . In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.

Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995, the National Defense University in 2002, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She resides in Washington, DC."

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/41252.htm

Third-Party Descriptions

July 2008: "A U.N. court ruled Wednesday that the United States should halt the executions of five Mexican nationals -- including a convicted killer sentenced to die in three weeks -- until their cases can be reviewed....The U.S. government's lawyer in the World Court has said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey have jointly written to Perry, urging him to review Medellín's case, according to the Associated Press."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071600511.html

July 2008: "WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday disavowed the actions of a Houston businessman and Bush campaign fund-raiser who was caught on videotape apparently trying to trade access to top administration officials — including Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — in exchange for six-figure donations to President Bush’s library foundation."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/washington/17bush.html

June 2008: "North Korea has agreed to verification principles that will allow outside experts to confirm the accuracy and completeness of information contained in the declaration, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters Thursday in Kyoto, where she had come for a meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of Eight industrialized countries."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062600252.html

June 2008: "In a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the committee’s chairman, Representative Henry A. Waxman, a California Democrat, said on Monday that there also appeared to be evidence that embassy officials in Tirana tried to cover up the November meeting once Mr. Waxman’s staff began an investigation into AEY."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/washington/24arms-subtk.html

June 2008: "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Israel over the weekend and made a surprise stop in Lebanon on Monday. On her trips, she spoke to both the Israeli and Lebanese governments about Washington’s desire to find a solution to the land dispute as a catalyst for solving bigger issues in the region, including strengthening the Lebanese government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, a senior Israeli official said, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to this."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/world/middleeast/19lebanon.html

June 2008: "The package was originally proposed by the Bush administration in April 2001, shortly after Bush took office, but it faced repeated delays in approval by Taiwan's legislature. Now that funding for the package has been approved -- and Taiwan's new government has indicated that it wants the arms as well as a separate package of F-16 aircraft -- both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley have put the brakes on the deal, sources said."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/11/AR2008061103281.html

June 2008: 'But the questions about al-Libi may be the most significant--and embarrassing--new disclosure in the Senate panel's report, both for the White House and the CIA. The Senate report found that al-Libi was "the principal intelligence source" for assertions by Bush, CIA director George Tenet, national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Powell that Iraq had provided chemical and biological weapons training to Al Qaeda operatives.'

http://www.newsweek.com/id/141009

June 2008: 'Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was surprised to hear of the withdrawals, adding: “If you cannot engage young people and give complete horizons to their expectations and their dreams, I don’t know that there would be any future for Palestine. We will take a look. I am a huge supporter of Fulbrights.”'

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/02/world/middleeast/02fulbright.html

October 2001: 'Realists hold that foreign policy is about relations between nation states, not about the political, economic or human-rights conditions within particular countries. Meddling in other nations' internal affairs only invites conflict, the realists argue, and conflict will reverse the humanitarian advance that the meddlers care about. In a Foreign Affairs article last year, future national security adviser Condoleezza Rice urged "a focus on power relationships and great-power politics," implicitly criticizing the Democrats for their preoccupation with soft transnational issues.'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31249-2001Oct21.html

November 2007: 'If I need somebody to serve in Iraq, they have to serve there,' Rice said in an interview on Friday with the Dallas Morning News.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/10/AR2007111001472.html

November 2007: Washington was not consulted about Musharraf's plan, Rice said, adding that she is 'disappointed in his decision.'

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/04/pakistan/index.html

September 2007: Masri's alleged ordeal sparked widespread outrage in Europe, triggered an ongoing German government investigation, and prompted an attempt by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to explain the Bush administration's position to allies. 'When and if mistakes are made, we work very hard and as quickly as possible to rectify them,' she told a 2005 press conference in Berlin.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0919/p01s08-usju.html

December 2005: KIEV, Ukraine, Dec. 7 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that the United States prohibits all its personnel from using cruel or inhuman techniques in prisoner interrogations, whether inside or outside U.S. borders. Previous public statements by the Bush administration have asserted that the ban did not apply abroad.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/07/AR2005120700215.html

November 2005: By midmorning Tuesday, Rice was able to announce a comprehensive agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority to ease Gaza's isolation and provide reliable access for its goods and people to Israel and the outside world. She called the deal 'a major step forward' that would allow the Palestinians to 'live ordinary lives' and would establish a new 'pattern of cooperation' between the two sides. 'For the first time since 1967, Palestinians will gain control over entry and exit from their territory,' she said, referring to the Middle East war, when Israel occupied Gaza and the West Bank.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111500144.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Director/Trustee/Overseer (past or present) Carnegie Corporation of New York Organization May 5, 2006
Director/Trustee/Overseer (past or present) Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Organization May 5, 2006
Director/Trustee/Overseer (past or present) Charles Schwab & Co. Organization May 5, 2006
Director/Trustee/Overseer (past or present) Chevron Corporation Organization May 5, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Hoover Institution Organization May 5, 2006
Director/Trustee/Overseer (past or present) J.P. Morgan Organization May 5, 2006
Organization Executive (past or present) National Security Council (NSC) Organization May 5, 2006
Director/Trustee/Overseer (past or present) RAND Corporation Organization May 5, 2006
Member of (past or present) Republican Party (U.S.) / Republican National Committee Organization May 5, 2006
Organization Executive (past or present) Stanford University Organization May 5, 2006
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) State Department/Department of State (DOS) Organization May 5, 2006
Director/Trustee/Overseer (past or present) Transamerica Corporation Organization May 5, 2006
Organization Executive (past or present) US Federal Government - Executive Branch Organization
Student/Trainee (past or present) University of Denver (DU) Organization May 5, 2006
Director/Trustee/Overseer (past or present) Student/Trainee (past or present) University of Notre Dame Organization May 5, 2006
Subordinate of (past or present) President George Herbert Walker Bush Person May 5, 2006
Subordinate of (past or present) President George W. Bush Person May 5, 2006
Supervisor of (past or present) David M. Satterfield Person Oct 14, 2007
Colleague/Co-worker of (past or present) Dr. Philip D. Zelikow Person May 5, 2006

Articles and Resources

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Jun 21, 2012 Elite Women Put a New Spin on an Old Debate

QUOTE: The article in The Atlantic, by Anne-Marie Slaughter, a Princeton professor who recently left a job at the State Department, added to a renewed feminist conversation that is bringing fresh twists to bear on longstanding concerns about status, opportunity and family. Unlike earlier iterations, it is being led not by agitators who are out of power, but by elite women at the top of their fields, like the comedian Tina Fey, the Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg and now Ms. Slaughter. In contrast to some earlier barrier-breakers from Gloria Steinem to Condoleezza Rice, these women have children, along with husbands who do as much child-rearing as they do, or more.

 New York Times
Apr 08, 2011 Why humanitarian wars can go so wrong

QUOTE: The big democracies usually stand idly by during the worst atrocities, including the Holocaust and the genocide in Rwanda… Western democratic leaders have powerful political incentives to do humanitarianism on the cheap… These governments were more worried about the safety of their own soldiers than about protecting Bosnian civilians.

 Washington Post
Nov 01, 2008 Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Terrorism An attack on one of the great cities of the world is almost inevitable. But with better detection technologies, a new international alliance could st

QUOTE: Given current policies and practices, a nuclear terrorist attack that devastates one of the great cities of the world is inevitable. In my judgment, if governments do no more and no less than they are doing today, the odds of such an event within a decade are more than 50 percent.

 Technology Review
Jul 28, 2008 Internal Justice Dept. Report Cites Illegal Hiring Practices

QUOTE: An extensive report by the department's Office of the Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility concluded yesterday that Goodling and others had broken civil service laws, run afoul of department policy and engaged in "misconduct," a finding that could expose them to further scrutiny and sanctions. The report depicted Goodling as a central figure in politicizing employment decisions at Justice during the Bush administration.

 Washington Post
Jul 17, 2008 Fund-Raiser Apparently Offers Access for a Price

QUOTE: The White House on Wednesday disavowed the actions of a Houston businessman and Bush campaign fund-raiser who was caught on videotape apparently trying to trade access to top administration officials — including Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — in exchange for six-figure donations to President Bush’s library foundation.

 New York Times
Jul 17, 2008 Court Orders U.S. to Halt Execution of 5 Mexicans

QUOTE: A U.N. court ruled Wednesday that the United States should halt the executions of five Mexican nationals -- including a convicted killer sentenced to die in three weeks -- until their cases can be reviewed.

 Washington Post
Jul 11, 2008 Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda Captives

QUOTE: Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes, according to a new book on counterterrorism efforts since 2001.

 New York Times
Jul 03, 2008 Panel Questions State Dept. Role in Iraq Oil Deal

QUOTE: The release of the documents comes as the administration is defending help that United States officials provided in drawing up a separate set of no-bid contracts, still pending, between Iraq’s Oil Ministry in Baghdad and five major Western oil companies to provide services at other Iraqi oil fields. In the no-bid contracts, the administration said it had provided what it called purely technical help writing the contracts. The United States played no role in choosing the companies, the administration has said.

 New York Times
Jun 27, 2008 U.S. to Delist North Korea As Sponsor Of Terrorism

QUOTE: President Bush moved Thursday to drop North Korea from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism and to lift some trading sanctions, after the isolated totalitarian state turned over a long-delayed report that includes details of plutonium production in its nuclear program.

 Washington Post
Jun 23, 2008 Cover-Up Is Cited on Illegal Arms

QUOTE: A military attaché has told Congressional investigators that the American ambassador to Albania endorsed a plan by that country’s defense minister to remove evidence of illegal Chinese origins on ammunition being shipped from Albania to Afghanistan by a Miami Beach arms-dealing company.

 New York Times
Jun 19, 2008 Israel Open to Deal With Lebanon on Disputed Land

QUOTE: Israel offered on Wednesday to start direct peace talks with Lebanon, saying all issues would be negotiable including a tiny piece of Israeli-held land on the countries’ border that Israel has long argued does not belong to Lebanon but that the Lebanese say is theirs....However, in the past the Lebanese government has consistently opposed negotiations with Israel, saying the Israelis must first return the disputed piece of land.

 New York Times
Jun 12, 2008 Top U.S. Officials Stalling Taiwan Arms Package

QUOTE: Top Bush administration officials are delaying a long-promised $11 billion arms package for Taiwan, raising the possibility that the issue will be left for the next president, according to sources inside and outside the administration.

 Washington Post
Jun 11, 2008 Spies, Lies and the White House: Buried in a Senate report, new revelations about pre-war deception

QUOTE: A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 questioned the "credibility" and "truthfulness" of an Al Qaeda detainee who became a key source for the Bush administration's claims about links between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.

 Newsweek
Jun 02, 2008 State Dept. Reinstates Gaza Fulbright Grants

QUOTE: after word of the grant withdrawals got out, senior American and Israeli officials expressed surprise and outrage, saying that training ambitious and talented young people under Fulbright grants was one of the ways to help blunt the appeal of radical forces in Palestinian society.

 New York Times
May 27, 2008 U.S. Resumes Human Rights Dialogue With China

QUOTE: Many observers have said the human rights situation here, particularly the issue of free speech by dissidents, has declined markedly in recent months as part of a security tightening in the lead up to the Beijing Games in August. In addition, the Chinese government has come under heavy criticism abroad for its crackdown in Tibet following the eruption of anti-Chinese rioting in March.

 Washington Post
May 21, 2008 Audit Finds FBI Reports Of Abuse Were Ignored: Tactics Continued Against Detainees

QUOTE: Reports that Guantanamo detainees were being subjected to extreme temperatures, religious abuses and nude interrogation were conveyed at White House meetings of senior officials in 2003, yet these questionable tactics remained in use, a lengthy report by the Justice Department's inspector general concluded.

 Washington Post
May 14, 2008 Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation: Immigrants Sedated Without Medical Reason ("Careless Detention" part 4 of 4)

QUOTE: The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged.

 Washington Post
May 03, 2008 Palestinians Seek Support on Borders

QUOTE: increasingly bleak assessments by Palestinian officials about the progress being made in peace negotiations with Israel, including over borders....The letter [from Ariel Sharon to Pres. Bush--Ed.] stated that “in light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949,” referring to the boundary that existed until the 1967 war.

 New York Times
Mar 12, 2008 State Dept. Rights Report Calls Record of Sudan 'Horrific'

QUOTE: The State Department's annual survey of human rights practices around the world calls Sudan's record "horrific" and notes that countries where power is in the hands of unaccountable rulers are the most systematic violators of human rights standards.

 Washington Post
Nov 11, 2007 Forced Iraq Postings 'May Be Necessary': Volunteers Fill About Half of Embassy's 48 Open Slots, State Department Says

QUOTE: But the plan to order diplomats to take posts in Iraq if enough volunteers cannot be found -- the first time forced assignments have been contemplated since the Vietnam War -- has been controversial within and outside the service.

 Washington Post

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