Ex-Adviser Reportedly Hurt Embassy Aide (Blackwill, prospect for NSA job)

[Rose Siding]

Robert D. Blackwill, who resigned last week as the White House's top official on Iraq policy, was recently scolded by national security adviser Condoleezza Rice after Secretary of State Colin L. Powell told her that Blackwill appeared to have verbally abused and physically hurt a female embassy staffer during a visit to Kuwait in September, administration officials said.

The incident took place as Blackwill was rushing to return home after a visit to Baghdad to join a campaign swing planned by President Bush. As six officials describe the incident, he arrived at the Air France counter at the Kuwait airport and learned he was not on the flight manifest. Blackwill then turned in fury to an embassy secretary who had accompanied him to the airport and demanded that he be given a seat on the flight, grabbing her arm at one point, the officials said.
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Another official, who is familiar with Blackwill's version of events, said that Blackwill believes the woman's description of the airport incident is not accurate and that another NSC staff member present during the incident supported Blackwill's version of it. The official did not elaborate.

Several officials noted that after the incident was reported, Blackwill traveled repeatedly with Bush on his campaign plane in the final weeks before the election. Blackwill, a deputy to Rice, was widely considered one of the top prospects to replace her as national security adviser if she took another job in the administration.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43756-2004Nov11.html

[UL_Approved]

1. More of the same

This is a microcosm of the Bush regime. Its no wonder that the Iraq war is going on like it is. These redneck goombas are a disgrace to the United States.

[President Jesus]

2. Blackwill's campaign contributions

wonder how he got his job...
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?last=Blackwill&first=Robert

[yardwork]

3. It sounds like Blackwill has done this before. This time she got a photo

Powell found out about the incident and informed Rice. He then had staff members gather facts and materials to present to Rice, including photographs of the woman's arm, a State Department official said.

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Blackwill, who spent 22 years in the State Department's foreign service, is widely regarded as a brilliant and prickly boss with a management style that has struck some subordinates as abrasive. When he was ambassador to India early in the administration, he was the subject of two critical reports by the State Department inspector general on his management skills and plunging morale among the embassy staff.

[Barrett808]

4. Times of India: Rice spat led to Blackwill exit

Rice spat led to Blackwill exit
CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA

TIMES NEWS NETWORK< FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2004 02:10:31 PM >

WASHINGTON: Robert Blackwill's famous temper may have finally felled him. The mercurial former US ambassador to India who bowed out of the Bush administration on Wednesday after addressing a Diwali event in the White House resigned following an incident in which he was accused of verbally abused and physically handled a female state department staffer, it was reported Friday.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/921241.cms