What is the job description for National Security Adviser?

[anarchy1999]

I'm watching Condi again at 4:00 in the morning and I just get angrier. Does she have a job description, duties to fufill, etc as NSA?

The way she turned the people asking questions upside down, would not answer questions, fillibustered, oh, the list just goes on.

Why are "we" letting "them" get away with this? I am more confused than I ever have been in my life. I thought Iran-Contra was the height of arrogance, boy, was I misled. WaterGate, Iran-Contra were all just dress rehearsals (sp?).

I'm outraged, but we that are upset are only what, 30%, and that is a misguided 30%, right?

If we let this administration get away with this deception we deserve what we get, and folks, it is coming our way. In the form of a runaway train. We only have a short amount of time left to change it, and just like many others have said, including John Dean, Chalmers Johnson, Gore Vidal, Vincent Bugliosi, and Howard Zinn, it may already be too late.

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. Read some of the analysis by our Canuk reporters and correspondents

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I kept track of them and posted them in another thread.

Check them out here

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[shockingelk]

2. yeah, job description

Rice: "I don't remember the al Qaeda cells being something that we were told we needed to do something about."

So the National Security Advisor was waiting to be told that al Qaeda terrorist cells in the US deserved attention? Is this really what she was saying? Who's job is it to advise the security advisor?

[Lexingtonian]

3. sure she had a job description

As far as I can tell, she was the Assistant VP in charge of the effort to run over and crush the remaining weakling Soviet client states. North Korea and such. (Colin's job was to save his victory in the Gulf War by ginning up a war against Saddam Hussein.) She was one of the hostile takeover specialists hired to knock off this bunch of geopolitical midgets in a manner that could pretend to justifiability.

Of course, this job description has nothing to do with any reasonable definition of 'security'. And, judging from her performance and rationalizations, she obviously wasn't selected for or told to perform according to any meaningful standards of leadership.

Yes, it's always kinda wierd how banal and pointless and pathetic Republican governance really tends to be. It's always about a sense of entitlement to theft and violent abuse- and never much more, it turns out.

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. From a past National Security Advisor: Sandy Berger

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JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, just a moment ago the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee got under way and resumed hearings. Today the witness is the highest-ranking official of the Clinton administration yet to testify before this committee. He is Sandy Berger, the president's national security adviser. As you can see, he has just taken the oath and seated himself at the witness table. Let's listen.

SEN. FRED THOMPSON (R), GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS CHMN.: Thank you very much. Mr. Berger, we do appreciate your being with us this morning. I know that it's not unprecedented for a person in your position to come to the Hill and testify, but it's not an every day occurrence, to say the least. It is appreciated by this committee. We, of course, will avoid any matters that have to do with national security matters. Any thing that we might get into in that area can be taken up in closed session. But it will not be necessary to get into that in open session.

So, if you would, please generally explain the responsibilities of the National Security Council and the roles played by the assistant to the president for national security affairs and the two deputies.


SANDY BERGER, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: The National Security Council itself, Mr. Chairman, was established almost 50 years ago by Congress, and as a formal matter consists of the president, the vice president, and his senior cabinet officials.

The NSC staff, which is the functioning day to day operation, is essentially the professional foreign policy staff that serves as chief adviser to the president and vice president on foreign policy matters, seeks to coordinate the various departments and agencies with responsibility on national security, seeks to assure that the president has the best advice possible to make decisions, is engaged in managing crises, and implementing the policies where the president makes a decision.

I think she failed

[anarchy1999]

7. As I read your post I thought to myself, I think she failed.

There at the bottom of your post you put it in very large letters.

Our NSA, Condaleeza Rice, FAILED her post.

Thank you, Canuck.

Thank you and all the rest of the Canadians that are sitting close by wanting to see this all end well. Where would we be without you guys?

[anarchy1999]

5. Ouch!

n/t

I guess there is really nothing to add to your analysis. Strikes me as kind of dead on. Much as I do not like it. Pathetic, actually, but oh well, I guess we get what we deserve.

[dd123]

6. I came to the conclusion that she was ill suited for her job

many months ago after I read an article by Walter Pincus describing her "college seminar" style of holding meetings. I can't find the article now, but the gist was that everyone at the meeting would express their opinions and Condi would listen politely, but at the end of the meeting, no consensus was reached and nothing was resolved.

After that, nothing surprises me.

[sniffa]

8. window dressing

and to aLso expLain big words to the president.

[Loonman]

9. She doesn't do shit, from what I heard

Eliminate the position or give her something to do besides repeating Rummy and Bush talking points.

[DinahMoeHum]

10. There was an obvious lack of imagination and initiative

on CondoPizza's part - and that's putting it charitably.

:evilfrown: