Waterboarding doco welcomes Condoleezza Rice back to Stanford

[sabra]

Source: UK telegraph

With Hillary Clinton sworn in as her successor at the State Department, Condoleezza Rice has signed up for representation by the William Morris Agency talent agency and headed back to her academic alma mater, Stanford, to lecture, teach, write books and play the piano.

But a British film-maker is determined to make her return to campus in California rather less smooth than she might have wished.

On Tuesday night, the college's Amnesty International chapter will host the premiere of a new documentary 'American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi', made by director Sebastian Doggart. Based on testimony from both supporters and critics, the film makes a number of damning accusations about her time as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.

Most explosive is the coverage of her role as chair of the group of 'Principals' (Vice-President Dick Cheney and then defence secretary Donald Rumseld were also members) who allegedly signed off on CIA "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as water-boarding for terror suspects. That technique has been described as torture by defeated Republican presidential candidate John McCain and new Attorney General Eric Holder, among many others.

Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Colin Powell who was Secretary of State at the time of those Principals meetings, tells Doggart: "I think Americans should be appalled that Dr Rice was sitting there giving the orders to water-board."

Read more: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/philip_sherwell/blog/2009/02/03/waterboarding_doco_welcomes_condoleezza_rice_back_to_stanford

[LynnTheDem]

1. "That technique has been described as torture..." That "technique"

IS torture.

And that's a fact.

[ixion]

2. Good. I hope she doesn't get a moments peace

because that what she's helped to give to the world: a complete lack of peace.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Oh come on. Where is your sympathy for war criminals? nt

[ixion]

5. confiscated, along with my shampoo, in the concentration-camp airport

:evilgrin:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Don't try to shampoo a shampooer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_oLtdVPjjg

[MineralMan]

4. I hear that Circus Circus is looking for a

lounge act for their piano bar. Can she sing?

[onehandle]

7. Hammer her for the rest of her life. The Bush criminals may have gotten away with it...

...but it doesn't mean they won't pay a price.

Keep them penned in and on defense. Forever.

[Myrina]

8. ... always knew she had an S&M streak in her ...

:hide:

[Vinnie From Indy]

9. Students at Stanford should routinely place signs around the University

welcoming the "war criminal" back to Stanford. The same for John Yoo at UC Berkeley.