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GOP Senator Warns Dems to "Be Careful" About Criticizing
Rice
Sen. Byrd: Rice Responsible For "Most Overblown Rhetoric
Administration Used to Scare the American People"
Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult"
GOP Senator Warns Dems to "Be Careful"
About Criticizing Rice
Speaking on the Senate floor, Sen. George Allen (R-VA) said
his Democratic colleagues should "be careful" when
criticizing Rice for making false statements about the war
in Iraq lest they "diminish Dr. Rice's credibility in
capitals around the world."
Allen explained that Rice's "detractors can do a great
disservice to this country, a great disservice by playing
too hard a partisan game."
- Sen. George Allen (R - Virginia), United States Senate,
January 25, 2005.
Sen. Byrd: Rice Responsible For "Most Overblown
Rhetoric Administration Used to Scare the American People"
In a Senate debate on the confirmation of Condoleezza Rice
as Secretary of State, some Democrats delivered a blistering
public attack on her role as National Security Adviser on
Iraq. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) led the opposition to Rice's
confirmation. We hear an extended excerpt of his address.
A number of Senate Democrats delivered blistering public
attacks on Condoleezza Rice in her role as National Security
Adviser Tuesday as the Senate prepared to confirm her to be
President Bush's next Secretary of State.
In a nine-hour debate, Democrats repeatedly accused Rice
of misleading Americans about prewar intelligence in Iraq
and the administration's handling of the war, even though
both parties expect her to be confirmed.
After Rice was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
last week, Senate Democrats forced a postponement of the confirmation
vote. Republicans have since accused them of playing "petty
politics."
The Democrats attacks on Rice were led by Senators Robert
Byrd of West Virginia and Barbara Boxer of California. Boxer
was one of two senators on the Foreign Relations Committee
to vote against Rice's confirmation last week. John Kerry
was the other senator. Byrd held the floor for almost an hour.
At times, the Sebate's oldest member clutched a pocket-sized
copy of the US Constitution in his hand. This is Senator Robert
Byrd.
- Sen. Robert Byrd (D - West Virginia), United States Senate,
January 25, 2005.
Read
transcript of Byrd's address
Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult"
As the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to vote today
on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General,
we hear a speech by Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter
Seymour Hersh on torture from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib to
Vietnam.
Four British citizens have been released without charge from
Guantanamo Bay after nearly 3 years in custody. They are suing
the US government for tens of millions of dollars in damages.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the Senate Judiciary Committee
is scheduled to vote on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales
to be Attorney General. As White House counsel, Gonzales helped
lay the legal groundwork that led to the torture of detainees
at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
We turn now to Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist
Seymour Hersh. Hersh first exposed the Abu Ghraib torture
scandal in the New Yorker magazine in April 2004 and is author
of "Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib."
He spoke last month at the Steven Wise Free Synagogue in New
York.
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