'NYT' Reporter's Condi Book Will Reveal 'Conflicts' With Cheney

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Condoleezza Rice's relationship with Vice President Dick Cheney in recent years was "much more conflict-driven than we have been led to believe," according to Elisabeth Bumiller of The New York Times, who has just finished a biography of the secretary of state.

"There was much more conflict on the Middle East and detainees and on Guantanamo Bay than has been written," Bumiller, who returned to the Times D.C. bureau in September after a 15-month leave, tells E&P. "There had been disagreements over those and a little leading up to Iraq. But it is clear she was behind the war."

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Declining to reveal too much from the book, titled "Condoleezza Rice: An American Life," Bumiller said "there is a lot of stuff about her relationship with the president that was interesting." She adds that she found Rice to be "more human, someone who has made mistakes. She spent part of her college years floundering. She wasn't a brilliant student."

Bumiller also looked at her time as Stanford University provost, saying, "she got into a real tangle with women and minorities and a real conflict with factions out there."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003668545

Amazing we had all this propaganda about Condi being brilliant - and what we got was another "C" student who didn't have a clue about the Middle East.