The J-Walk Blog: Condi The Globetrotter
The J-Walk Blog: Condi The Globetrotter
“At the Web site of the U.S. Department of State: Travels With the Secretary.
The Secretary of State travels to all corners of the world to do her job. Her duties as Secretary include acting as the President’s representative at all international forums; negotiating treaties and other international agreements, and conducting everyday, face-to-face diplomacy.
And, as if anybody really cares, they list all of her travels detail. For example, so far in 2007 she’s taken 16 trips, visited 23 countries, and racked up 169,182 miles. She’s spent 21,519.80 minutes traveling (which works out to 358.66 hours, or 14.94 days).”
(Via J-Walk.)
Quoting, quite liberally, from the J-Walk blog, our Secretary of State has spent less time on the road than David Warlick.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:36 am
A Nov. 15 2007 AP story indicates Chevron was fined $30M by the SEC for bribing Saddams’s thugs in the “oil for food” deal and that Chevron may face tax evasion charges later. The bribes were in the millions so someone pretty high up at Chevron had to sign off on the payments. Unfortunately the AP story did not mention Dr. Condoleezza Rice the Chevron board member and the chairman of the “Public Policy Committee” which is responsible for making sure this kind of activity does not happen.
The Chevron website says the committee’s purposes include “identifying, evaluating and monitoring social, political and environmental trends, issues and concerns”, “analyzing how public policy trends could impact business activities and performance”. Dr. Rice never discussed the Iraqi bribes on the record (not in the minutes) at company meetings. That should not surprise anyone who is familiar with her lack of response to 911 warnings.
President Clinton put sanctions on Iraq. Actions by Chevron and Rice clearly violated those sanctions and amount to treason. I urge our new Attorney General Michael Mukasey and California Attorney General Jerry Brown determine who at Chevron authorized the millions in bribes.
Ellis Goldberg
Danville CA