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In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military. She was also a "Founding Board member of the [[Center for a New Generation]], an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as [[Transamerica Corporation]], [[Hewlett Packard]], the [[Carnegie Corporation]], [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]], the [[Rand Corporation]], the [[National Council for Soviet and East European Studies]], the [[Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition]] and [[KQED]], public broadcasting for San Francisco," her biographical note states. [http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/ricebio.html]
Dr. Rice is a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995 and the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003. Christian media report that her strong religious beliefs are an important influence on her thinking on major policy issues. [http://www.christianitytoday.com/cr/2002/005/1.18.html] [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/009/1.42.html] [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/009/33.44.html] [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/009/34.46.html]
== Statements About Al Qaeda and the [[War on Terrorism]] ==
The following year Rice was still touting the long-discerdited claims - albeit somewhat qualified - about Iraq seeking uranium from Africa as justification for the war. "At the time that the State of the Union address was prepared, there were also other sources that said that they were, the Iraqis were seeking yellow cake, uranium oxide from Africa," Rice said on This Week with George Stephanopolous on the U.S. ABC network. [http://www.house.gov/reform/min/features/iraq_on_the_record/]
In a February 2003 interview with Larry King Live, Rice claimed there was no doubt about the al Qaeda connection. "…What emerges is a picture of a Saddam Hussein who became impressed with what al Qaeda did after it bombed our embassies in 1998 in Kenya and Tanzania, began to give them assistance in chemical and biological weapons, something that they were having trouble achieving on their own, that harbored a terrorist network under this man Zarqawi, despite the fact that Saddam Hussein was told that Zarqawi was there," she said. [http://www.house.gov/reform/min/features/iraq_on_the_record/]
However, the Washington Post revealed that that two memos challenging the uranium claims had been sent to National Security Council staff as well as one phone call from the Director of the Central Inetlligence Agency. Democrat Representative Henry Waxman told the Washington Post that "if the national security adviser didn't understand the repeated State Department and CIA warnings about the uranium allegation, that's a frightening level of incompetence ... It's even more serious if she knew and ignored the intelligence warnings and has deliberately misled our nation." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51224-2003Jul26]
== Testimony Before 9/11 Commission ==
* The [[White House]], "[http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/ricebio.html Biography of Dr. Condoleeza Rice National Security Advisor], March 2004.
*Center for Public Integrity, "[http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/downloads/June2001newsletter.pdf Rice's Chevron service]", ''The Public i'', Volume 7, No 3, June 2001.
* Dick Thompson, "[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,103985,00.html Why U.S. Environmentalists Pin Hopes on Europe Activists hope President Bush will find European leaders more persuasive than Christie Whitman on global warming]", ''Time'', March 26, 2001.
*[http://www.christianitytoday.com/cr/2002/005/1.18.html Condoleezza Rice's Secret Weapon: How our National Security Adviser finds the strength to defend the free world], ''Christianty Today'', Vol. 40, No. 5, September/October 2002, Page 18.
*Elisabeth Bumiller, "[http://college4.nytimes.com/guests/articles/2004/01/07/2283002.xml A Partner in Shaping an Assertive Foreign Policy]", ''New York Times'', January 7, 2004.
*Condoleezza Rice, "[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030123-1.html Why We Know Iraq Is Lying]", ''New York Times'', January 23, 2003.
*Dana Milbank and Mike Allen, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51224-2003Jul26 Iraq Flap Shakes Rice's Image: Controversy Stirs Questions of Reports Unread, Statements Contradicted], Washington Post, July 27, 2003; Page A01.
*Lawrence M. O'Rourke, "[http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/front/story/1237978p-8275299c.html Clarke, Rice trade charges on terrorist response]", ''Sacramento Bee'', March 25, 2004.
*[[Center for American Progress]], "[http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=40729 Fact Check: Condi Rice's '60 Minutes' Interview]", March 28, 2004.
*Hope Yen, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60511-2004Apr8.html Rice Says 'No Silver Bullet' to Prevent Sept. 11 Attacks]", ''Associated Press'', April 8, 2004.
*[http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/07/25_condi.html The Amazing Stories of Condoleezza Rice], ''BuzzFlash'', July 25, 2003.
*Laura Rozen, [http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/000220.html "Condoleeza Rice tells the ''New York Times'' she is definitely out of a second George W. Bush White House,"] ''War and Peace'', January 7, 2004.
*Dan Froomkin, "[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/administration/whbriefing/whoswho.html Who's Who in the White House]", ''Washington Post'', March 10, 2004.