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January 19, 2005: Headlines: COS - Dominican Republic: Congress: Iraq: Prison Abuses: Toledo Blade: Dodd questions Condoleezza Rice on Abu Ghraib prison abuses
Dodd questions Condoleezza Rice on Abu Ghraib prison abuses
Dodd questions Condoleezza Rice on Abu Ghraib prison abuses
Verbal duels mark 1st day of testimony; Rice poised to be secretary of state
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By ANN McFEATTERS
BLADE WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF
WASHINGTON - The Senate appears ready to confirm Condoleezza Rice as the nation's first black female secretary of state after a spirited day of testimony in which she pledged to work to mend frayed diplomatic ties with U.S. allies even while defending the war in Iraq.
A close confidante of President Bush, Ms. Rice is in no danger of failing to be confirmed to succeed Colin Powell, but lengthy questioning of her by all 18 members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday led to more than 9 1/2 hours of verbal sparring over the administration's foreign policies.
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Ms. Rice and Sen. Chris Dodd (D., Conn.) also engaged in a verbal duel when Ms. Rice refused to answer Mr. Dodd's question about whether she considers such practices toward prisoners as nudity and water boarding, which simulates drowning, to be forms of torture that violate the Geneva Convention. Both have been used against detainees in Iraq and the war on terror. Ms. Rice said the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib hurt the United States and insisted, "Nobody condones torture."
"The problem with how to deal with unlawful combatants … is a very difficult problem," she said, adding, "I will not speak to specific interrogation techniques."
Mr. Dodd said her answer was "very troubling" and said she should talk to Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), who spent five years being tortured in Vietnam as a prisoner of war.
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