Former Nat'l Sec Council Official:'RICE LIED-About Powells Rebuffed Attempts For 03 Talks With Iran'

Powell tried to push Iran talks in 2003 and was rebuffed, former official says Brian Beutler
Published: Wednesday February 14, 2007

Former Bush National Security Council official also says Rice likely lied about not seeing document

Former Bush National Security Council official Flynt Leverett, speaking on Wednesday at a forum held by the New America Foundation, told a crowd in a Senate office building that in 2003 then-Secretary of State Colin Powell received a “grand bargain” offer from Iran and was rebuffed by the White House, RAW STORY can reveal.

“I know as a fact from multiple sources this went all the way up to Secretary Powell,” Leverett said, citing multiple sources at the State Department and the NSC. “In (Secretary Powell’s) words, he ‘couldn’t sell it at the White House.’”

Leverett, who served as the senior director for Middle East affairs on the National Security Council from March 2002 to March 2003, added that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was probably lying when she said she had not seen the offer Iran made, which was channeled through Tim Goldimann, the Swiss ambassador to Iran. The Washington Post printed a pdf of the offer in today's online edition of the paper.

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“The document went over to the NSC” and “it is unthinkable” that it wouldn’t have gone to then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Leverett asserted. “She owes Congress an apology for saying she had not seen the document.”

http://www.rawstory.com//news/2007/Powell_tried_to_push_Iran_talks_0214.html

I whistleblowers.

Here is a pdf of the offer from the Raw Story article and the WP article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/documents/us_iran_roadmap.pdf

Leverett said that Rice should apologize for lying. Oh, yeah, that's not gonna happen. She could apologize from now till the next century and still not be done with all of the lies she has told.

God is watching, Smirky, and she is not amused.

How about a letter of resignation.

She may have been shopping for shoes that day. Condi for president!

"Who could have forseen that I would be caught red handed in such a traitorous lie."

-85% jimmy

but lie?

Never...noooo...not Her.

sort of, like, flown directly over her desk at 35,000 ft. on the way to pseudo-Pres. Darth's or to the adminstrator of his "blind" trusts at Carlyle. Who could predict...?

we need war, damnit, to make money! :grr: Crooks -- all of them.