Condoleeza Rice disavows recalling that DCI Tenet PERSONALLY warned her about IMMINENT Al Qiada threat in weeks before 9-11....

Due to the effectiveness of Republican propaganda, the story of then NATIONAL_SECURITY_ADVISOR Condoleeza Rice being PERSONALLY WARNED by Director of Central Intelligence (the 'DCI' of the CIA) George Tenet that an AL QAIDA ATTACK on America was imminent... was at first DENIED by Ms. Rice, and then she reluctantly remembered that she had, indeed, received that warning from Director Tenet, and had personally demanded that the Secretary of Defense (Don Rumsfeld) and the Attorney General (John Ashcroft) both receive the same urgent briefing.... which not one of those three administration leaders DID ANYTHING about!

This post by retired CIA agent Larry C. Johnson explains the story pretty well, and includes links to the actual memo that the nation's 'Counter Terror Czar,' Richard Clarke, wrote to Ms. Rice, explaining that Al Qaida was "NOT just another terrorist organization," but one capable of mounting simultaneous attacks on high priority American targets, as they had done against the USS Cole in October of 2000, and against the US embassies in two African cities in 1998.
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Condi Rice: Liar, Stupid, or Both?
by Larry C. Johnson (retired CIA)
09.28.2006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-c-johnson/condi-rice-liar-stupid_b_30511.html

When it comes to the 9-11 blame game, Condi Rice is either a liar or stupid. No other logical possibility accounts for her delusional claim to the New York Post that, "We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda." Rice was responding to President Clinton, who told Chris Wallace last week that his Adminstration left the Bush Administration with a plan for dealing with the Al Qaeda threat.


But this ain't a case of "He said, She said". There is a documentary record and it is unambiguous. In fact there are two documents. First, is the strategy itself. Comprehensive and straightforward. Second, is the memo from Clarke to Rice. For folks unaccustomed to the intricacies of bureaucracy, this memo, which was given to Rice on 25 Janaury 2001, is the equivalent of a smoking mushroom cloud. This is truly damning because it provides the road map for the actions the Bush team should have taken but didn't.


The first thing Clarke warns Rice about is the need for a comprehensive strategy to deal with Al Qaeda:

As we noted in our briefings for you, al Qida is not some narrow, little terrorist issue . . .Rather, several of our regional policies need to address centrally the transnational challenge to the US and our interests posed by the al Qida network. By proceeding with separate policy reviews on Central Asia, the GCC, North Africa, etc. we would deal inadequately with the need for a comprehensive multi-regional policy on al Qida.

Clarke then proceeds to lay out the history of Al Qaeda, why it is a threat, and highlights some key issues that the Clinton Administration had not solved. But he does not stop there. He does what any good soldier would do, he asked for specific guidance in four areas:

I recommend that you have a Principals discussion of al Qida soon and address the following issues:

Threat Magnitude: Do the Principals agree that the al Qida network poses a first order threat to US interesting a number or regions, or is this analysis a "chicken little" over reaching and can we proceed without major new initiatives and by handling this issue in a more routine manner?
Strategy: If it is a first order issue, how should the existing strategy be modified or strengthened? . . . .
FY02 Budget: Should we continue the funding increase into FY02 for State and CIA programs designed to implement the al Qida strategy?
Immediate CIA Decisions: Should we initiate CIA funding to the Northern Alliance and to the Uzbek's?
Please let us know if you would like such a decision/discussion paper or any modifications to the background paper.

So, did Condi immediately convene a meeting of the Principals (i.e., President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, etc)? NO. She waited until September 4, 2001.

Did the Bush Administration adopt the position that "al Qida network poses a first order threat"? NO. Did Condi immediately decide on whether to modify or strengthen the "existing strategy" for taking on Al Qaeda? NO. Condi kicked the can down the road.

Condi can play all of the lawyerly word games she likes, but the cold facts expose her dissembling. Dealing with Al Qaeda did not become a priority for the Bush Administration until the morning of September 11, 2001. No effort to retaliate against Al Qaeda for the USS Cole bombing was made until after 9-11. The real irony is that the Bush Administration, in the wake of 9-11, implemented a plan/strategy very similar to the one Dick Clarke gave Condi in January 2001. So, Condi? Liar or stupid? You decide.

-- No Quarter

At it Again: Condi in bed with Africa's murderous, mass-murder dictators. Where there's sleazy oil-profits to be made, there's Condi....

photo montage courtesy http://calliphoridae.cf.huffingtonpost.com/

With Friends Like These . . .
Condoleezza Rice's inglorious moment
Tuesday, April 18, 2006; Page A18
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR2006041701368.html


WITH A LAND mass similar to Maryland's, Equatorial Guinea has the fortune to be Africa's third-largest oil producer. The money from black gold helps to explain how the president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, has bought large homes in France and Morocco, as well as two in Potomac, and how his son and presumed heir bought a Lamborghini and two Bentleys during a shopping spree in South Africa. But oil has done little to help Equatorial Guinea's 540,000 people, some 400,000 of whom suffer from malnutrition. Those who are hungry know better than to complain. According to State Department reports, the president's goons have urinated on prisoners, sliced their ears and smeared them with oil to attract stinging ants.

So it is uncontroversial to observe that Mr. Obiang is no friend to his people. But he is a "good friend" of the United States, at least according to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who met with him last week in Washington. "I'm very pleased to welcome the president," Ms. Rice told reporters after the meeting. "Thank you very much for your presence here." Mr. Obiang purred back: "We are extremely pleased and hopeful that this relationship will continue to grow in friendship and cooperation."


In the global rankings of political and civil liberties compiled by Freedom House, only seven countries rate worse than Equatorial Guinea. If President Bush and Ms. Rice want anyone to take their pro-democracy rhetoric seriously, they must stop throwing bouquets to odious dictators. The meeting with Mr. Obiang was presumably a reward for his hospitable treatment of U.S. oil firms, though we cannot be sure since the State Department declined our invitation to comment. But Ms. Rice herself argues that U.S. foreign policy spent too long coddling corruption and autocracy in Arab oil states. Surely she doesn't have a different standard for Africa?

For Condi Rice, Slavery & Genocide are just part of the price of business

painting montage courtesy of http://www.images-from-the-id.blogspot.com/

Being "liberals", we here at CondiRiceSlaver.blogspot.com are reluctant to put women, and especially single, minority women, into the same class of America's insider-corruption, Dereliction-in-Duty, Incompetence and Crimes leadership along with the likes of Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby and their bosses, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and George W. Bush, but in the case of Condoleeza Rice, she most certainly belongs in this awful catagory.

In the 1800 America's southern plantations had an insatiable appetite for SLAVE LABOR, as the tobacco and rice crops demanded huge amounts of hand labor, intensive cultivation that in the case of tobacco required entirely new fields every two or three years as the tobacco plant depleted the soil of its natural nutrients. In early America it was cheaper to move west and start an entirely new plantation than to wait for your old land to recover and become productive again, and these agricultural and economic forces, along with the great profits from American and Eurpean demand for tobacco, fueled the great westward expansion of Southern plantations - and slavery. This temptation for profits, new plantations, and slaves exploded when the cotton gin made the production of cotton far more profitable than it had been when cotton had been separated from its seeds only by labor-intensive hand work. Just imagine trying to clean tons and tons of cotton, one cotton-ball sized seed pod at a time.

With the perfection of cotton production cotton became "King Cotton," the driving force of 19th century industrialization and global economies, supplanting wool before it (in England) and the Sugar plantations. And Southern SLAVERY, which before the cotton gin had been on the economic wane, grew in all aspects - as a social phenomenon, as a cultural phenomenon, as an economic phenomenon, and above all as an eternal source of cheap labor - until the Southern planters were able to envision an empire supplanting the non-slavery United States, and contest that government altogether when they governments of the Southern states seceded from the Union after Lincoln's election in 1860.

Condoleeza Rice's tenure as, first National Security Director, and then Secretary of State, reprises those awful forces of slavery and brute violence in 19th century America. Since George W. Bush has become president, the duly elected president of Haiti (Jean Bertrand Aristide) has been economically and politically undermined by the United States government, with (almost certainly) a US approved (if not sponsored) COUP driving Aristede from Hiati, fittingly at the hands of bayonet-and-machine-gun armed US troops sent there to "protect" Mr. Aristide.

Or, to put it in a nutshell, CONDOLEEZA RICE has been a party to the UNDOING of Haiti's democracy, a democracy RESTORED under the Clinton administration, a democracy DESTROYED on the Bush administration.

Were she a white male, Condoleeza Rice, and her support for aggressive, "end democracy in Haiti, Central America, and South America" policies, would fit right in to the administrations of Andrew Jackson, James Buchanon, and other slave-owning administrations.


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Chad Threatens to Cut Off Oil Pipeline
By LES NEUHAUS
The Associated Press
Saturday, April 15, 2006; 4:03 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/15/AR2006041500386.html

N'DJAMENA, Chad -- Thousands rallied Saturday in Chad's capital to support the president following a defeated rebel attack, while the oil minister threatened to shut down the country's oil pipeline unless the government is compensated for frozen oil revenues.

President Idriss Deby's government appears desperate to attract international attention to solve Chad's political, economic and security problems.

President of Chad, Idriss Deby, left, with Prime Minister Pascal Yaodimnadji, centre, and Minister of Territorial Adminstration army General Mahammat Ali Abdallah, second right, reading a confiscated rebel intelligence document from the captured rebels in N'Djemena, Friday, April 14, 2006. Person at right is unidentified. Chad's president broke off relations with Sudan and threatened to expel 200,000 refugees from the neighboring Darfur region after parading more than 250 captured rebels through the streets of the capital following a violent attempt to overthrow him. (AP Photo/Abakar Saleh) (Abakar Saleh - AP)


Oil Minister Mahmat Hassan Nasser told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday that the pipeline would be shut down unless the international community ensured Chad received its oil royalties by midday Tuesday.

Chad's oil exports _ 160,000 barrels per day _ are small by international standards and have a high sulfur content, reducing their value. But Deby appeared to be gambling that any threat to the world oil supply, no matter how small, will bring attention to his plight and free up needed funds to finance his government.

The warning came a day after Deby announced that he was severing relations with neighboring Sudan and threatened to expel 200,000 refugees from the Darfur region if the international community did not do more to stop what he claimed were Sudanese backed-rebels from destabilizing his government before the May 3 presidential election.

In January, the World Bank froze an escrow account with $125 million in oil royalties in London, Nasser said. It also cut $124 million in financial assistance after Chad changed an oil revenue law passed in 1999 as a condition for the World Bank's support for the pipeline.

Nasser said the funds must either be released or the operators of the pipeline must compensate the Chadian government.

The law required two-thirds of oil revenues to go toward improving living standards in one of the world's poorest countries. It also required 10 percent of proceeds to go into a savings fund to be used when Chad's oil reserves are exhausted.

But the National Assembly amended the law in December. It doubled the money going to the government's general budget, freed money in the savings fund and added security _ buying arms and equipment for the military and other security forces _ to the programs that received over two-thirds of the royalties.

Nasser said Chadian officials met twice with World Bank representatives seeking to unfreeze the funds, but without success. He said that without payment, the government would have to shut down the pipeline, which flows through Cameroon to the Atlantic Ocean.

"The government has the right to act as it sees fit if obligations are not met," Nasser said. He said such a move would not harm his government, but would hurt other businesses and Cameroon, which have been collecting revenues from the oil.


An Exxon Mobil-led consortium exported 133 million barrels of oil from Chad between October 2003 and December 2005, according to World Bank statistics. Chad, which receives a 12.5 percent royalty on each barrel exported, earned $307 million, the bank said.

The consortium invested $4.2 billion in the pipeline. Nasser said the pipeline would continue to operate if the consortium pays the royalties frozen in London and pays future revenues directly to Chad's treasury.

President of Chad, Idriss Deby, left, with Prime Minister Pascal Yaodimnadji, centre, and Minister of Territorial Adminstration army General Mahammat Ali Abdallah, second right, reading a confiscated rebel intelligence document from the captured rebels in N'Djemena, Friday, April 14, 2006. Person at right is unidentified. Chad's president broke off relations with Sudan and threatened to expel 200,000 refugees from the neighboring Darfur region after parading more than 250 captured rebels through the streets of the capital following a violent attempt to overthrow him. (AP Photo/Abakar Saleh) (Abakar Saleh - AP)
Thursday's rebel attack on the capital has shaken Deby's government and, with the rebel United Front for Change regrouping in the countryside, the threat of a violent overthrow of the government has not diminished.

Rebel commander Col. Regis Bechir told Radio France International that Deby's regime was a menace.

"Dialogue is the only way to save the people of Chad," he said. "A national reconciliation, with a democratic basis, would be best. And we are determined to continue the armed struggle against the phony elections."

Deby held a rally in central N'djamena, the capital, Saturday where thousands of people packed into the Place d'Independence, waving Chadian flags and shouting slogans. The president arrived in a civilian Humvee surrounded by hundreds of well-equipped soldiers and thanked them for "crushing the rebels."

"We will do anything to preserve democracy in Chad, we will do anything to preserve security in Chad," Deby said.

The crisis in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, which the United Nations has called the world's gravest humanitarian crisis, and internal dissension over how to spend oil revenues have weakened the president, who has led Chad since seizing power in a coup in 1990. There has been enormous dissent over his decision to run for a third term after two irregular elections and over how oil royalties have disappeared.

Deby repeatedly has accused Sudan of hiring mercenaries to overthrow his government. Sudan has denied this and has long accused Chad of supporting fighters in its volatile Darfur region, where Arab militias and African rebels have fought for nearly three years. Some 180,000 people have died in Darfur.

The Sudanese government has denied any involvement with the Chadian rebels and Deby has taken a lead role in African Union efforts to negotiate a peace deal for Darfur.

Chad, an arid, landlocked country about three times the size of California, has been wracked by violence for most of its history, including more than 30 years of civil war since gaining independence from France in 1960 and various small-scale insurgencies since 1998.

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