Rice ‘Planted’ Question With ‘Friendly Journalist’ To ‘Help Erase’ Pre-Iraq War Legacy

[KewlKat]

In 2003, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice helped push America into war with Iraq. She disregarded at least two CIA memos and a personal phone call from CIA Director George Tenet stating that the evidence behind Iraq’s uranium acquisition was weak. She infamously said, “e don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”

In an interview with C-SPAN’s Washington Journal today, Washington Post reporter Glenn Kessler, author of Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy, revealed that after President Bush promoted her to Secretary of State, Rice mounted a “public relations” campaign to distance herself from the pre-war fiasco.

As part of this PR campaign, she directed an aide to “plant a question” asking if she would run for President, in order to help “negate American memories of her very direct role” in invading Iraq:

Watch the WJ video and read the rest at THINK PROGRESS

[yardwork]

1. Oh, well, that's ok then. Bygones.

Not. :mad:

[robbedvoter]

2. The whole media is their circus...

[Bitwit1234]

3. Hell yeah, by gone Hillary is the only one jumped on because she

MIGHT EVEN BE """SUSPECTED"""" for planting a story.