Non-associated Press Report: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returned to the United States today, and spoke "pretty pointedly" with President Bush about "the concentration of power" in the United States. She raised concerns about corruption, referencing long-term, multi-billion dollar no-bid contracts with Halliburton and other large corporations. "Government," she declared, "should not attempt to influence the public through state-sponsored propaganda, which undermines public trust in the media and government."
The rule of law "must be accepted by all nations, large or small," she declared. International legal constraints on torture and extrajudicial murder are "part of the fabric of a civilized world," she said. A civilized nation cannot create a "gulag," creating a "legal black hole, where it can dispose of its alleged adversaries without process."
A society bound by the rule of law must bring any offenders of such basic rules to justice, and do so regardless whether the offenders be "errant soldiers or strutting generals." Kremlinologists interpreted the reference to "strutting generals" as being to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, even though he is not a general and has never been a soldier.
"A government should not manipulate its people through the threat of terror to wage an aggressive war abroad, without sufficient justification either in an international mandate or in the necessities of self-defense."
"People are really watching ... that indeed there is rule of law in the United States."
Update: For Mr. Moore and others who've asked, only a few of these are direct quotes. The others simply reflect my conjecture as to what she might have said if she were an honest visiting dignitary from abroad. For the text of some of Rice's comments overseas, see the State Department website.