Reports of Blackwater immunity deal embarrass Rice

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Reports that State Department investigators offered immunity deals to security guards accused of shooting dead 17 Iraqis dealt an embarrassing blow to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday.


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State Department official Sean McCormack refused to confirm the reports on Tuesday, but sought to distance Rice from the scandal.

"Secretary Rice's attitude is that if there are individuals who broke rules, laws or regulations, they must be held to account," he said.

"The reaction that she has taken during the course of the aftermath of this incident has been consistent with that approach."

McCormack stressed that it was Rice who "asked the FBI to take the lead of the investigation."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071030/pl_afp/iraqusunrestsecurityblackwater_071030172458

[Botany]

1. So it was the State Dept's personal who offered the deal fault?

But is not Condi the head of the State Deptartment and should
have known about the deal and Blackwell's, "get out of jail free card?"

Scooby Doo moment!



whaaat-mmmmmmm????????

[louis-t]

2. Unhhh, where do I start?

She's embarrassed about reports of Blackwater immunity? They're already immune, and have been since the beginning.
She's embarrassed about this, yet not embarrassed about missing umteen warnings about attacks on our soil?
She's embarrassed about this, yet not embarrassed about agreeing with everything the worst president in our history says?
Somebody stop me....

[Robbien]

9. There are seventeen families in Iraq grieving for the loss of their loved ones

but she is not embarrassed that the loved ones were killed on her watch.

Somebody better stop me also . . .

[proud patriot]

3. I'm so glad that lady put bloody hands in Rice's face

:)

[GodlessBiker]

5. The woman's actions were prescient.

[tridim]

4. "If there are individuals who broke rules, laws or regulations, they must be held to account"

Oh wow, where do we start? Her husb..I mean her boss would be a good one, followed promptly by his boss, The Dick.

[Danieljay]

6. Poor thing. I'm embarassed as a United States citizen for both her AND the epitome of embarassment:

George Bush.

[Trillo]

7. You mean it was "lower-level" employees who made this alleged immunity deal?

Why do the upper points of hierarchy always take credit when the news is good, they appear on the everyone's TV screens with ear-to-ear grins; but when the news is bad, the fault lies elsewhere, most often with the lower levels?

Responsibility is for little people, while rewards are for King and Queen?

[WCGreen]

8. It was Powell's fault...

Don't you know...

[Demeter]

10. Or Clinton's

Actually, it probably is the Big Dog's fault for not prosecuting Iran/Contra--he gave all these crooks a new lease on life and a third chance to destroy the world as we know it....

[Cronopio]

11. So Condoleeza Calrissian doesn't find her deal with The Dark Side to her liking.

It sucks when you find that your team isn't really on your side, doesn't it Condi.

Unlike Lando, I'm sure she'll adapt, because her betters know as well as she does that she has no choice. She's too invested in the corruption to seriously question it.

[annabanana]

12. Yeah, Like this woman is capable of embarassment...

[superconnected]

13. However the trail of bodies left in her wake doesn't make her blink an eye.