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When former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went to a\r\nstudent dormitory to have an informal discussion on April 27, 2009, she never\r\nthought it would put her back into the national spotlight. \r\n<\/span>Speaking with Stanford students in Roble Hall, Rice categorically denied\r\nany personal role in authorizing harsh interrogation techniques and denying that\r\nwaterboarding is torture. <\/span>Sophomore\r\nReyna Garcia recorded the entire conversation on her video camera and posted 7\r\nminutes of it on YouTube [1]. <\/span>Within\r\na week, the video clip had been viewed 185,000 times and had received over 2000\r\nposted comments. <\/span>Mainstream local\r\nand national media picked up to story, interviewing the two students in person\r\nand by telephone.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n In the video, Jeremy Cohn, a junior in public policy,\r\npressed Rice by making a comparison between Bush Administration policies and\r\nWorld War II, saying, “we did not torture the prisoners of war [in World War\r\nII].”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Rice retorted, “And we didn’t torture anybody here\r\neither.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Cohn: “We tortured them in Guantánamo Bay.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Rice: “No. No dear, you’re wrong. You’re wrong. We\r\ndid not torture anyone. And Guantánamo Bay, by the way, was considered a model\r\n‘medium security’ prison by representatives of the Organization of Security\r\nCooperation in Europe who went there to see it. Did you know that?”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Cohn: “Were they present for the interrogations?”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Rice: “No. Did you know that … Just answer me. \r\n<\/span>Did you know that the Organization of Security Cooperation in Europe said\r\nGuantánamo was a model medium security prison?”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Cohn: “No, but I feel that changes nothing.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n “Did you know that?” Rice insisted. \r\n<\/span>She went on the conclude, “Do your homework first!”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Beyond flat denials, Rice persisted in avoiding the\r\ndifficult discussions on whether the now widely-acknowledged “harsh\r\ninterrogations” constitute torture, or how such methods could be justified on\r\n“enemy combatants” when they are prohibited against “prisoners of war”\r\nor prisoners in the United States.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Another student asked, “Is waterboarding torture?”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Rice: “The President instructed us that nothing we would\r\ndo would be outside of our legal obligations under the Convention against\r\nTorture [2]. And, by the way, I didn’t authorize anything. I conveyed the\r\nauthorization of the Administration to the Agency that they had policy\r\nauthorization subject to the Justice Department’s clearance. That’s what I\r\ndid.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Student: “Is waterboarding torture?”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Rice: “I just said. The United States was told – we\r\nwere told, ‘nothing that violates our obligations under the Convention against\r\nTorture.’ And so by definition, if it was authorized by the President, it did\r\nnot violate our obligations under the Convention against Torture.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n The immediate response on the Internet was comparison to\r\nformer president Richard Nixon’s infamous statement to David Frost in 1977,\r\n“Well, when the President does it, that means it is not illegal.” \r\n<\/span>This justifiably perked national media interest.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Reflecting on his conversation with Rice, Jeremy Cohn\r\ncommented that evening, “she tried to convince me that ‘no torture’\r\noccurred at Guantánamo, again telling me to ‘do my homework.’ <\/span>Well unfortunately for her I’ve done my homework. \r\n<\/span>This article [http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2007\/jan\/03\/guantanamo.usa]\r\nlinks to FBI files detailing mistreatment at Guantánamo. \r\n<\/span>Rachel Maddow even had a former prison guard from Guantánamo Bay on her\r\nshow a few weeks ago talking about torture at Guantánamo Bay.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Cohn observed, “Eventually Professor Rice had to leave\r\nfor her dinner with other students. My first response was of disappointment she\r\nhad spoken very surely and at points condescendingly. However, after consulting\r\nall of my sources and re-examining the information, I felt re-affirmed in\r\neverything that I had said. She had left trying to make me look bad. Fortunately\r\nthe truth is on my side.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Rice in the hot seat\r\n\r\n<\/b><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n When Condoleezza Rice left the departing Bush\r\nAdministration after eight years of government service, she imagined returning\r\nquietly to private life at Stanford University, where she previously was a\r\nprofessor of political science and university provost. \r\n<\/span>In an interview given to the Stanford Report<\/i> (an official weekly\r\nuniversity newspaper, January 28, 2009), Rice said, “I really don't know what\r\nto expect, but Stanford is my home. I'm comfortable on the campus. I hope pretty\r\nsoon to get out among students. I love going over to the houses or the dorms and\r\nhaving dinner and having a question-and-answer session afterward.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Under President George W. Bush, Rice was National Security\r\nAdvisor from January 2001 to January 2005 and thereafter Secretary of State\r\nuntil January 2009. <\/span>She was present\r\nin the many crucial meetings with the President, Vice President Richard B.\r\nCheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and her predecessor, then\r\nSecretary of State Colin L. Powell that led to the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan\r\nand Iraq, the launching of the so-called “war on terror,” and the subsequent\r\ndecisions to authorize waterboarding and other physical methods of interrogation\r\nof “enemy combatants.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n According to a classified document released by Attorney\r\nGeneral Eric Holder on April 22, 2009 at the request of the Senate Intelligence\r\nCommittee, Condoleezza Rice met then CIA Director George Tenet on July 17, 2002\r\nto “advise that the CIA could proceed with its proposed interrogation of Abu\r\nZubaida” subject to approval by the Justice Department [3]. \r\n<\/span>The Justice Department, in turn, relied heavily on the legal\r\nrationalizations outlined in the memos of University of California law professor\r\nJohn Yoo and federal judge Jay Bybee, which have now been widely repudiated.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n While Rice takes shelter in being only the messenger, the\r\nsame Justice Department document indicates that Rice and four other\r\nadministration officials were first briefed in May 2002 on “alternative\r\ninterrogation methods, including waterboarding.” <\/span>This is long before Powell, Rumsfeld, and even Cheney became\r\ninvolved according to the Justice Department timeline. \r\n<\/span>Thus, with Rice having unique early high-level access to what was going\r\non and being planned, her early acceptance of these policies was central to the\r\ndecision to authorize them.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Justice Department documents have also revealed that Abu\r\nZubaida was waterboarded at least 83 times, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was\r\nwaterboarded 183 times, quantitative evidence of deliberate, persistent, and\r\nprolonged abuses.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Context of protest – what the national media ignored\r\n\r\n<\/b><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n What the mainstream media ignored was the wider context of\r\nopposition and protest on the Stanford campus and in the community. \r\n<\/span>As Rice was arguing her case inside Roble Hall protected by a half dozen\r\nSecret Service agents, scores of students and community members were gathered\r\noutside to raise their concerns about Condoleezza Rice’s automatic return to\r\nStanford University.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n For her critics what is most troubling is not her opinions,\r\nbut the foregone conclusion by the University that she should be honored without\r\nquestion with such a prestigious chair as the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson\r\nSenior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. \r\n<\/span>The case against Rice is outlined in a letter to the Stanford community\r\nby the student organization, Stanford Says No to War [4] and an article in The\r\nStanford Progressive<\/i> [5].<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Daniel Mathews, a graduate student in mathematics,\r\nemphasized that what is at stake is not academic freedom and freedom of speech\r\nbecause “we can respectfully and politely disagree.” <\/span>He continued, “But here today … we have a professor who\r\ndid not merely advocate for brutalities like waterboarding – but authorized\r\nthem. A professor who did not merely cheerlead for war, but was involved in\r\nofficial planning and propaganda efforts of that war, at the highest levels.\r\nThese are not things to respectfully disagree about. These are not experiences\r\nto learn from. These are crimes to be prosecuted.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Two protesters adorned orange jumpsuits and black hoods to\r\nremind students entering Roble Hall about Condoleezza Rice’s role in\r\nauthorizing waterboarding, other harsh interrogation methods, extraordinary\r\nrendition, and indefinite detentions. <\/span>Handwritten\r\nbanners demanded “prosecute torturers” and “no war criminals.” \r\n<\/span>While eating pizza, students, staff, alumni, and members of the community\r\nlistened to speakers call for change in the way Stanford and other universities\r\nso readily honor top government policy-makers with prestigious academic chairs\r\nwithout apparent regard to the crimes they may have committed while in high\r\noffice.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Mathews cautioned, “In calling for prosecutions, we are\r\nnot looking for retribution. The most important thing is to make sure that the\r\nhorrible episodes we have seen – war, torture, aggression, violations of\r\ninternational law – do not happen again. How do you ensure they do not happen\r\nagain? By letting anybody who is thinking of doing it again know that if they do\r\nit again, they will be prosecuted. And how do you ensure that? By prosecuting\r\nthose who did it this time.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n When Condoleezza Rice and fellow former Secretary of State\r\nGeorge Shultz showed up for a second dinner discussion with a limited number of\r\nstudents at Wilbur Hall on May 12, 2009, they were again greeted by protests\r\nquietly reminding Rice to “do her<\/i> homework,” about her role in the\r\nroad to war and torture, and about Shultz’s role in the Iran-Contra fiasco.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Meanwhile, other students organized “Condival” in White\r\nPlaza on May 1, 2009 as a carnival parody on Condoleezza Rice’s role the\r\n“race to war,” waterboarding (for apples), “Abu Ghraib ring toss,” and\r\nother games that are “so much fun that it’s a war crime.” \r\n<\/span>Some students thought Condival “went too far” and was “in bad\r\ntaste,” but hundreds of students participated in having “fun raising\r\nawareness on campus.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Petition\r\n\r\n<\/b><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n When Stanford Says No to War began circulating a petition\r\ncalling for Condoleezza Rice to be held accountable for potential war crimes,\r\nStanford alumni also took up the cause. <\/span>A\r\nweekend fortieth anniversary reunion of the April Third Movement (A3M) brought\r\ntogether nearly 150 Stanford alumni who were student activists against the\r\nVietnam War in 1969. <\/span>The final\r\nevent of the reunion was a press conference for presenting the petition to the\r\nUniversity. <\/span>It reads:<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n “We the undersigned students, faculty, staff, alumni, and\r\nother concerned members of the Stanford community, believe that high officials\r\nof the U.S. Government, including our former Provost, current Political Science\r\nProfessor, and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Condoleezza Rice, should be\r\nheld accountable for any serious violations of the Law (including ratified\r\ntreaties, statutes, and\/or the U.S. Constitution) through investigation and, if\r\nthe facts warrant, prosecution by appropriate legal authorities.” [6]<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Marjorie Cohn, President of the National Lawyers’ Guild,\r\nexplained the purpose of the gathering and press conference: “By nailing this\r\npetition to the door of the President’s office, we are telling Stanford that\r\nthe university should not have war criminals on its faculty. \r\n<\/span>There is prima facia<\/i> evidence that Rice approved torture and\r\nmisled the country into the Iraq war. <\/span>Stanford\r\nhas an obligation to investigate those charges.”<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Cohn went on to emphasize that the call to investigate Rice\r\nis not a denial of academic freedom. <\/span>Every\r\nfaculty member has a right to express ideas and opinions, she said. \r\n<\/span>But this does not apply to violating international and constitutional\r\nlaw.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Then Lenny Seigel, Stanford alumnus of the class of 1970,\r\nwith hammer in hand, nailed the petition onto the door of the office of Stanford\r\nPresident John L. Hennessy in Inner Quad Building 10.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n The practice of nailing a petition to the door of a\r\nuniversity office follows an historic precedent set in October 1968 when\r\nstudents nailed a document on the door of the office of the Stanford Board of\r\nTrustees demanding that Stanford “halt all military and economic projects and\r\noperations concerned with Southeast Asia.” \r\n<\/span>The action launched a campaign that led to the formation of the April\r\nThird Movement in the spring of 1969.<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n Notes\r\n\r\n<\/b><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n 1. \r\n<\/span>Video clip by Reyna Garcia, YouTube<\/i>, 27 April 2009, http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ijEED_iviTA\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n 2. \r\n<\/span>Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading\r\nTreatment or Punishment<\/i>, adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on 10 December\r\n1984, http:\/\/www2.ohchr.org\/English\/law\/cat.htm\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n 3. \r\n<\/span>R.J. Smith and P. Finn, “Harsh methods approved as early as summer\r\n2002,” Washington Post<\/i>, 23 April 2009, http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/22\/AR2009042203141.html\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n 4. \r\n<\/span>“Condi Coalition Letter to Stanford Community,” 16 April 2009,\r\nhttp:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/antiwar\/cgi-bin\/mediawiki\/index.php?title=Condi_coalition_letter_draft\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n 5. \r\n<\/span>Daniel Mathews, “Prosecuting Condoleezza Rice,” The Stanford\r\nProgressive<\/i>, January 2009, http:\/\/progressive.stanford.edu\/cgi-bin\/article.php?article_id=271\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n 6. \r\n<\/span>Sign the Stanford Community Petition at http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/antiwar\/crpetition.html\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/antiwar.stanford.edu","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Stanford University students, staff, alumni, and community have called for Condoleezza Rice to be held accountable for war crimes and torture. Challenging her return to the University, they are petitioning for a probe into her alleged violations of international and U.S. law.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cr-01.jpg","filesize":"203.6 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2009\/05\/227147.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cr-01.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cr-01.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2009\/05\/cr-01.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[{"id":227148,"heading":"Protest against Condoleezza Rice at Roble Hall","article":"Human rights activists in orange jumpsuits like those worn by prisoners at Guant\u00e1namo Bay protest Condoleezza Rice\u2019s presence at Stanford University in front of Roble Hall on April 27, 2009.","author":"Sharat G. 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