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Friday, October 26, 2007

Highlight Reel From Condoleezza Rice’s Iraq Testimony Yesterday

posted by on October 26 at 13:40 PM

Posted by Ryan S. Jackson

Missed in yesterday’s news was the increasingly Thunderdome-esque appearance of Condoleezza Rice before Rep. Henry Waxman’s House Oversight Committee. Some of the more interesting moments included:

-The Office of Accountability and Transparency, which conducts anti-corruption operations in Iraq, has had four bosses in the last ten months. The present director is an eager go-getter of a paralegal who has been boycotting meetings of the other anti-corruption agency in Iraq. Secretary of State Rice, brought before a Congressional oversight committee, states, “I should get back to you with a sense of how we manage these programs.”

-The money we send the Iraqi government is probably being funneled to militias for attacks on US troops.

-Regarding Blackwater’s conduct in Iraq, “I certainly regret that there was not the oversight that there should have been.”

-The State Department Inspector General for Iraq, Howard “Cookie” Kongard, who has been accused of hiding spending improprieties and retaliating against whistleblowers, was unavailable for testimony.

Spencer Ackerman of TPM Muckraker has continuing coverage of all manner of Iraq oversight madness.

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Oh my god. Our money to fund their government to funnel to militias to attack us?


It gets absolutely more disgusting with every report. How saddening.

Posted by Lake | October 26, 2007 1:46 PM
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What's possibly worse is that the chilling effect of our constitutional violations almost drove me to cancel letting that last post go through.

Posted by Lake | October 26, 2007 1:48 PM
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Or you could just note that more than 90 percent of al-Qaeda funding and volunteers today is still coming from Saudi Arabia.

Not Iran.

I know who I'd nuke.

Posted by Will in Seattle | October 26, 2007 2:43 PM
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Oversight is for pussies. Just keep shoveling.

Posted by Fnarf | October 26, 2007 2:52 PM
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More like the Blooper Reel...


Ask her stuff she knows!!

Posted by Original Andrew | October 26, 2007 5:55 PM

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