Clinton: $7.1 Billion Big Sum But Only A Fraction

by Christina Lovato, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service

This morning U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and stated that the $7.1 billion requested in supplemental funds for State Department operations and foreign assistance is a significant sum but expressed that it is only a fraction of what the U.S. spends each year on national security. (00:35)
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Bush laments victims of tyranny

At a speech in front of the United States Agency for International Development, President Bush reflects on the victims of tyrannical governments he has met, among them: Blanca González, whose son Normando Hernández González is a political prisoner in Cuba, and Olga Kuzulina, whose father Alexander Kozulin is imprisoned in Belarus for running for president. (1:50)
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Representative Robert Wexler (D-FL) asks Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice if she had intelligence information contrary to what was actually reported about Iraq

At the House Foreign Affairs Committee International Relations Budget Full committee hearing on the "International Relations Budget for FY2009," In response to Representative Robert Wexler, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that at no time did she intend to, nor believe that she did, put forth false information. Wexler asks her if she had intelligence information that was contrary to the intelligence information that was reported about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. He says that there were contrary reports, and Rice says that she chose to use the collective wisdom of the intelligence community, and that it showed in the Key Judgments in 2002 that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted his biological weapons program, reconstituted his chemical weapons program, and might do so with his nuclear weapons program if he got foreign assistance. She says she will be the first to say that it was not right. (1:27)

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