In this photo released by the US Embassy in Israel, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice smiles as she poses for a photo during a press conference with Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, not seen, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. Making another Mideast trip to prod Israelis and Palestinians closer as hopes for a peace deal by year's end fade, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had little to say Tuesday beyond describing negotiations as "serious" and adding that Israeli settlement is unhelpful. AP Photo logo AP Photo 10 months ago

In this photo released by the US Embassy in Israel, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice smiles as she poses for a photo during a press conference with Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, not seen, in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. Making another Mideast trip to prod Israelis and Palestinians closer as hopes for a peace deal by year's end fade, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had little to say Tuesday beyond describing negotiations as "serious" and adding that Israeli settlement is unhelpful.

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  10. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks during an interview at the State Department in Washington, DC, on December 22, 2008. The CIA first sought in May 2002 to use harsh interrogation techniques including waterboarding on terror suspects, and was given key early approval by then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, a US Senate intelligence document said. The agency got the green light to use the near-drowning technique on July 26, 2002, when attorney general John Ashcroft concluded "that the use of waterboarding was lawful," the Senate Intelligence Committee said in a detailed timeline of the "war on terrorism" interrogations released on April 22, 2009.
  11. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on the State Department's international affairs budget 21 March, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The CIA first sought in May 2002 to use harsh interrogation techniques including waterboarding on terror suspects, and was given key early approval by then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, a US Senate intelligence document said. The agency got the green light to use the near-drowning technique on July 26, 2002, when attorney general John Ashcroft concluded "that the use of waterboarding was lawful," the Senate Intelligence Committee said in a detailed timeline of the "war on terrorism" interrogations released on April 22, 2009.
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  13. In this photograph provided by Rabinowitz-Dorf, Leon Wieseltier, left, talks with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital in Washington Sunday, May 3, 2009.
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