Clinton mocks Cheney over his defence of waterboarding.Byline: ANI Washington, Apr 23 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has mocked former vice president Dick Cheney at a Capitol Hill review of her first three months in office. "It won't surprise you that I don't consider him a particularly reliable source," Clinton said, dismissing Cheney's claim that classified documents prove that harsh interrogations of terror suspects yielded vital intelligence. Clinton cut off Republican Dana Rohrabacher Dana Tyron Rohrabacher (born June 21, 1947, in Coronado, California) is an American politician, who has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1989, currently representing California's At-large congressional district. (R-Calif.), who demanded to know whether she would advise President Barack Obama to release the documents. "I'm not going to share that with you," the Daily News quoted Clinton, as saying. At a House Foreign Affairs Committee See also United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations The Foreign Affairs Committee is one of many Select Committees of the British House of Commons, which scrutinises the work of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. hearing, Clinton also clashed with Chris Smith Chris Smith is the name of: In politics:
Use of measures designed to regulate the number and spacing of children within a family, largely to curb population growth and ensure each family’s access to limited resources. and contraception in international aid efforts. Smith ripped Clinton for recently accepting an award in the name of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood A service mark used for an organization that provides family planning services. , a group Smith said "killed over 305,000 children by abortion in the US and millions more worldwide." Clinton responded icily: "I deeply respect your passionate views but we obviously have a profound disagreement." In foreign aid efforts, "we are now an administration that will protect the rights of women, including reproductive health care." Earlier, in giving herself a review of nearly 100 days in office, Clinton looked upon her term at the State Department and declared it pretty good. Then she asked for more money. "Just as we would not deny ammunition to American troops heading into battle, we cannot send our diplomats into the field without the tools they need," Clinton said. "If we fail to invest in diplomacy," Clinton said, "we will eventually spend far more paying for that mistake." Even before Clinton got to ask for a funding boost, members of the audience gave her support. "Secretary Clinton, please ask more for diplomacy and less for war," one woman called out. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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