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It’s rise and reckon
time for Rice
WASHINGTON,
July 27. — US National Security Advisor Ms Condoleezza Rice’s image
has been shaken following the controversy over President George W
Bush’s State of the Union Message, in which he said Iraq was trying
to obtain uranium from Africa.
According to the Washington Post,
she is being blamed for not reading intelligence reports and the
assessment of the State Department’s Intelligence and Research
Bureau casting doubt on such reports which came from the British.
Just weeks ago, there was speculation that Rice would be the
likely choice for Secretary of State, and Republicans hoped that she
could become Governor of California and some day, the President.
“But she has since become enmeshed in the controversy over the
Administration’s use of intelligence about Iraq’s weapons in the
run-up for war,” Post said. She has been made to appear out of the
loop by colleagues’ claims that she did not read or recall vital
pieces of intelligence. And she has made statements about US
intelligence on Iraq that have been contradicted by facts. Either
she missed or overlooked numerous warnings from intelligence
agencies seeking to put caveats on claims about Iraq’s nuclear
weapons programme, or she made public claims that she knew to be
false. — PTI
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