Welch vs. Rice

U.S. Rep. Peter Welch had some hard questions for Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice Thursday during a committee hearing on the Blackwater controversies in Iraq.

I missed the CSPAN broadcast of the committee hearing yesterday morning - I was over at the National Life complex meeting with Mary Evslin, the new chair of the Vermont Telecommunications Authority Board. Watch for that story on Sunday.

But according to the Associated Press story on the committee hearing, Welch and other Democrats hit Rice hard on why companies such as Blackwater essentially have immunity from prosecution.

"If you just change the deck chairs, it's not going to change the policy," Welch told Rice.

-Dan Barlow