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David Drummond probes Condoleezza Rice & David Miliband

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
16 years ago3,000 views

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/05/special-relationship-comes-to.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkUbckMBJQA

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband. Both confront on a daily basis some of the most difficult policy issues facing the world, with their recent itineraries taking them to Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, and beyond. Coming to the Googleplex for a tour and another edition of our Policy Talk series was a comparatively easy challenge, despite the probing questions from David Drummond, our Senior VP for Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, and the gathered Googlers during an hour-long discussion.

Among other topics, Secretaries Rice and Miliband discussed Internet censorship and the role that governments can play in protecting human rights online – the subject of our recent testimony before Congress. Secretary Rice, who in 2006 formed the State Department's Global Internet Freedom Task Force, argued that "the Internet is possibly one of the greatest tools for democratization and individual freedom that we've ever seen." Both she and Secretary Miliband expressed concern over Internet censorship and the efforts of some governments around the world to block or regulate content.

Throughout the course of their talk, Secretaries Rice and Miliband also discussed globalization and competition, the Iraq war, the image of the U.S. in the world, the environment, and other issues. You can hear their views for yourself on YouTube:

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

After around minute 55, the topics turn to waterboarding torture and Guantamo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding

On Condoleezza Rice, Wikipedia writes:
<<In January 2000, Rice addressed Iraq in an article for Foreign Affairs magazine. "As history marches toward markets and democracy, some states have been left by the side of the road. Iraq is the prototype. Saddam Hussein's regime is isolated, his conventional military power has been severely weakened, his people live in poverty and terror, and he has no useful place in international politics. He is therefore determined to develop WMD. Nothing will change until Saddam is gone, so the United States must mobilize whatever resources it can, including support from his opposition, to remove him.">>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice

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