Condi Rice Fires Back at Cheney’s Memoir: ‘I Don’t Appreciate the Attack on My Integrity’
- Posted on September 1, 2011 at 9:57am by
Billy Hallowell
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Condoleezza Rice isn’t happy about her portrayal in former Vice-President Dick Cheney’s new memoir, “In My Time.” Particularly striking is the former secretary of state’s view that Cheney attacked her integrity. In a telephone interview with Reuters, she was less-than-coy about her disapproval.
In addressing the notion presented in Cheney’s book that she misled President George W. Bush about the United States’ nuclear diplomacy with North Korea, Rice had plenty to say. While defending her own record on the matter, she also provided what she sees as acceptable standards for critique of one’s colleagues (clearly, she believes Cheney hasn’t taken the high road in this arena):
“I kept the president fully and completely informed about every in and out of the negotiations with the North Koreans. You can talk about policy differences without suggesting that your colleague somehow misled the president. You know, I don’t appreciate the attack on my integrity that that implies.”
Of course, this wasn‘t Rice’s only response to Cheney’s memoir. She also addressed a section of the book that claims she once “tearfully” approached the him. According to the book, Rice shed tears, while admitting that the Bush administration shouldn’t have given an apology for a 2003 claim that Iraq had been searching for uranium to build nuclear arms.
Cheney writes that Rice “came into my office, sat down in the chair next to my desk, and tearfully admitted I had been right,” but Rice’s account is radically different. She claims that she never tearfully approached Cheney about anything during the eight years she worked with him, although she did admit telling the vice-president that he had been right about the press‘ reaction to the administration’s apology.
While certainly discontented by her disagreements with his statements, Rice was reluctant to question Cheney’s motives. That being said, she did admit that she views some of his comments as less-than-professional. She says:
“But I have to say that some of the things that he said about his colleagues are not in keeping with the high respect that I have always had for him. I think they do fall into the category of cheap shots.”
Of course, Rice isn‘t the first individual to criticize Cheney’s book. Colin Powell also joined in to attack the “cheap shots” the vice-president has taken. Below, watch Cheney address his book’s critics:
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Comments (62)
AirFiero
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 2:11amI think Condi would make a good president.
Report Post »Applehead
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 4:10amI couldn‘t vote for Condi bc of some liberal social issues such as she’s Pro Choice! Looking back at the Bush administration, I like them less and less! It’s helped me understand what kind of conservative I am! There were several things I was naive to such as the Patriot Act and giving away individual freedoms is one example! The biggest lesson is never follow blindly and give careful analysis to ever position listening to all sides! To seek out other opinions within the same party as well as outside the party! Sounds logical but many are guilty of the same!
Report Post »Give_heed
Posted on September 2, 2011 at 6:50pmMy vote for Condi any day, any time, any year!
Report Post »Bearluvstrouble
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:46pmHey Candy, I supported you and your Bush…NO PUN INTENDED….WOMAN, DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT WE CITIZENS BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF A POLITICIANS MOUTH….ITS JUST A DARN BOOK…ITS HIS OPINION AND PERSONALLY I DON’T CARE….THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE…NOW MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE…
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 5:41pmhey knock it off we’re lucky to have both Condi and Cheney I like both of them i really like Cheney more he is a strong HONEST intellegent hard working and just a good man and with the liberals attacking him all the time only re-affirms my thoughts of the man. he’s my hero very no non-sense. Condi is and will be a great person to stand for AMERICA she is still better than any liberal,socialist,communist,radical,democrat. so we have 2 strong leaders and we should be thankful to both.
Report Post »thegoodvoter
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 5:23pmMs Rice, you are awesome! If you are ever in the vicinity of Fort Riley, Kansas and want to go out for dinner just let Garrison there know that their “BMM Russkij-perevodchik” would like to take you out.
Report Post »blue_sky
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 4:24pmYes, keep your affirmative-action “integrity.“ As supposedly an expert of USSR who spoke ”fluent” Russian, Rice was giving interviews on Russian radio in Moscow.
Report Post »Russians were appalled by her lack of understanding and knowledge both in politics and language. May be because foreign news is not delivered from a single source there – Reuters/AP.
JRook
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 4:45pmCertainly not one of Bush’s better decisions, but of course he didn’t have that many good ones. Not sure why Cheney ALLOWED Bush to appoint her.
Report Post »inferno
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:31pmI see false outrage. Why wasn‘t she outraged during the Bush admistration when blacks in Bushs’ White House referred to by the left as “house slaves” ? Nothing I see in what Cheney said rises to that level of so called “ cheap shots”. It’s funny, when white people have differences of opinion, they make it clear where they stand. Black people are mute on outragous statements made by other blacks, for that very reason….because the person who makes that statement is black. Whether the statement is a falsehood, or whether it is an attack on a person with whom they disagree simply because that person is white. Until I see otherwise, I will continueto believe in the black community, nothing takes presedent over race. At the same time, they wish to be treated like everyone else, while pointing out their differences , often reminding everyone of their skin color and asking for special ttreatment because of it.
Report Post »I was appaled the way blacks were treated during the Democrat controlled South in the 60′s, and personally stood in public to defend the demands for freedom and justice in the black community.
My family history is such that they refused to vote to leave the Union, prior to the Civil War. No family member was a slave owner. Family members were hunted down and killed by those who believed they were traitors to the Confederate cause.
NHwinter
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 4:07pmRice, Cheney, Bush, Hillary, Gore, etc. all belong to the Bildeberg/NWO group. I’m glad they are all out of office. Let them fight it out between themselves.
Report Post »blue_sky
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 5:56pmSince you mentioned Bildeberg… Rick Perry had attended their secret meeting.
Report Post »It just came out that Rick Perry supported Hillary’s health care back then, not to mention he worked fro Al Gore as his campaign manager in Texas.
With Romney supporting health care mandates and flip-flopping on guns and abortions, only RON PAUL stands tall.
thegreatcarnac
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:19pmI don’t know how effective condi was.The fact that she is black yet she was conservative gives her a few points in my book. It is hard to find black conservatives…however…they do exist. When they do exist …they are usually a very good conservatve.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:33pmActually, most blacks are conservative. That they remain on the democrap plantation and vote against their best interests is paradoxical.
Report Post »MrKnowItAll
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:05pmNot one Lawsuit. That means it’s ALL TRUE. Am I wrong to think Quadaffi got some of that!
Report Post »Honest_E
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:31pmWow. Cheny is looking healthier in his old age. If Condi can win over Gaddafi, that’s saying something.
Report Post »Uechi
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:22pmCondy is without a doubt one of the most incompetent individuals to occupy the positiion of Secretary of State. She is an academic and should have stayed in that milieu, She was and is totally out of her element when dealing with the real world of politics and foreign policy.
Report Post »KeepTheTen
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:09pmI admire Mrs. Rice. It is rare nowadays for a former or present government official to have integrity to defend.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:04pmJust report the spam and be done w/it. This Olga joined today — likely to spam. It won’t be long before the site takes down all her spam.
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:45pmLOL, your asking (simpletruth) to use his head. He can’t, when he doesn’t have one.
His comments alone prove that.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:49pmbelieve me I know from bitter experience that the above is a scam.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:35pmCheney is, was and always will be a war criminal.
Report Post »Nepenthe
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:41pmOnly because the law says he is. But, as we have seen with our current administration as well as the past one, the law means very little anymore, especially concerning foreign policy.
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:56pmYou saying so, doesn’t make it.
Report Post »Heck if anyone should be a war criminal, that person should be O-dumber for his Illegal war.
kindling
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:30pmWe all see things from our own perspective and she was not without fault. If you can‘t take the heat don’t get into government.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:05pmHistory will not look kindly upon Cheney. For one, his support of waterboarding, which for the last 600 years at least has been the torture of choice for extracting false confessions without the visible damage to the body of other forms of torture, will make him look more like Pol Pot (whose preferred method of torture was waterboarding) than a distinguished and honorable American. It will not be lost of history that Americans prosecuted and convicted other people for waterboarding.
That’s only one example, but America’s claim to the high road, to leading the world as the good guys, was almost irreparably damaged, in large part by Cheney.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:40pmHey JZS,
And how has history looked upon your hero?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:24pmBilly, you’re not clear on the concept. The “view of history” is not your view, or the view of the TP, it’s the view of historians after time has passed, ten or twenty or fifty years from now. You have to understand the terminology to knowledgably participate in this conversation.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:30pmI have great respect and admiration for both Cheney and Condi (and G.W. Bush), but even greater respect and admiration for John Bolton.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:36pmHistory will be good to both G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney (and Donald Rumsfeld). Be very glad the democraps weren’t in power when 9/11 happened.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:43pmNo JZS, I understand the concept, and the terminology completely.
It is you that did not get the “gist” of my query.
Again I ask the same question……..
What view has history had of your hero?
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 4:16pmMaybe a little “waterboarding” would help get an answer out of you?
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 4:28pmCome on JZS,
With that “formal” education and all, didn’t they ever teach you to read “Between The Lions”
Report Post »jzs
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 5:34pmI’m confused by your posts. Who is “my hero?”
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 8:49pmStrange, I bet 9 out of 10 climate scientists know who your hero is, but you don’t?
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:16pmI have great respect for Condi Rice, but sometimes the truth just hurts. John Bolton’s book “Surrender Is Not An Option” goes into great detail how Rice and Powell just got in the way more often than not. Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bolton are truly great patriots and have served their country well. All three of them get a lot of critism from both sides of the aisle but I truly wonder how much people ACTUALLY know about these 3 guys?
You can tell from all the outrage that Cheney is telling the truth. Why else would they be attacking him so hard?
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:29pmSo let me understand your logic. If I make something up and publish it and it receives ‘outrage’, that means it must be true?
Report Post »Nepenthe
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:42pm“Why else would they be attacking him so hard?”
Probably because he is a war criminal.
Report Post »TombstoneJim
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:36pmI agree with your appraisal of the “me thinks thou dost protest too much” from both Rice and Powell…Ms Rice is still an admired professional in my book and the small slams that Mr. Cheney aimed at her are exactly that – little slights that would best have remained private……
For those of you who think that waterboarding is torture – try having you legs blown off by an IED that we where to politically correct to find out about, or afraid of “insulting” a culture of violence called Islam.
Report Post »db321
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:46pmWhat do you want to bet – Condi will pull the Race Card out here.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:21pmif you believe that, you are a fool.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:39pmShe will not!!!
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:46pmCondi has always been one of my favorite people. I will give her the benifet of the doubt. I was living in Russia when she came over on an official visit. She gave a rousing speech on the free market that made me proud to be a conservative. Amazingly the Ruskie media were fawning over her after the speech.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 4:00pmAnother woman (black) who is gung ho for the Constitution, freedom and the free enterprise system of economy, is Justice Janice Rogers Brown. It’s why the left (the democraps) have stifled her career. The democraps filibustered her nomination to the DC Court of Appeals for two years, but have made it clear that she can never reach the ultimate goal of the Supreme Court. Unless U.S. citizens start electing only pro-Americans to Congress (particularly the senate).
http://www.answers.com/topic/janice-rogers-brown-1
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:43pmShe always looked like she was about to cry to me.
Report Post »rcrosby66
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:41pmEveryone in politics has their faults and their strengths, but I agree with Rice, you don’t expose things in a book and catch people off guard, especially when you worked side by side with those people for many years. If they thought she was doing a bad job, there should have been a replacement. It was a lack of respect for everyone involved.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 4:03pmI have nothing but respect for Dick Cheney, but because of his poor health, when Bush was getting ready to seek re-election, I was hoping Cheney would retire and Condi would be the VP candidate.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:34pmI personally think it stinks that anyone writes a tell all book about what they wouldn‘t have or didn’t say or do at the time. There is something very sneaky about doing this.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:46pmJust wait for the one Barry (or someone claiming to be Barry) will write in 2013, talk about bitter.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 1:33pmYou mean 2017, his re-election is in the bag.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:27pmBut then again, I don’t know her as well as Cheney does….
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:24pmI’m convinced she voted for Obama. To be a part of “history in the making.” I saw an interview where she made it clear that she thought this was an historical moment and a good thing for the country. This was not in keeping with the high respect I had always had for her.
Black first, American second, Republican a distant third.
Report Post »hi
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:28pmjust like Colin Powell
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 4:05pmIf this is true, it would certainly tarnish my admiration for her.
Report Post »lunchmeat
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:19pmShe was a lousy Secretary of State, pandering to the orcs in Paleostine and accomplishing very little – Condi needs to reconnect with her gal pals at Stanford – the ones with short hair and sturdy footwear.
Report Post »Kara_ite
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:03pmBoo Hoo Condi, your too left wing for me. You say, “But I have to say that some of the things that he said about his colleagues are not in keeping with the high respect that I have always had for him. I think they do fall into the category of cheap shots.”
Report Post »Are these things that he says in the book true? I do like truth better than fiction.
mhannah.vera
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:47pmI remember one time having an arguement with my husband and painting him in what I thought he was rather than seeing what he saw. We must realize that how people see a situation is their own view andtheir own truth whether its true or not. Fact will always be facts but what people see as truth is the truth to them even if it different to someone else. Lost respect for Powell but still have respect for Rice until I see other facts. Haven’t read the book but I will.
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