Condi Finally Takes a Number Two
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
YES, DEAR Rice, Bush • Condi gets what Condi wants: After just two years, Contra-funding human rights abuser John Negroponte is being yanked from his post as intelligence chief, a position our sacrificial president has called vital to the war on terror. Negroponte will now play second banana to Condoleezza Rice in the State Department.
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