If award meant to provoke, well done.

Cheap honorary degree does not do a thing to erase her legacy.

My problem is that she is an inveterate liar, she is lacking in judgement and she has been the architect of bad foreign policy. Of all the people you could choose to single out to receive an Honorary Degree and to hold before the graduating Seniors as a shining light to inspire and emulate, she is NOT the one.

As a refresher, while serving as Undersecretary of African Affairs, she lied about the 1998 attacks on the Kenyan and Tanzanian Embassies as not being of terrorist origin, so as not to undermine misguided US policy re acknowledging a terrorist presence in Africa. You may also recall Osama Bin Laden was located in the Sudan and targeted for elimination around this time (three years before the destruction of the World Trade Center), yet Susan Rice voiced strong objections to taking him out.

Her performance in September 2012 on the five national Sunday morning talk shows where she presented false talking points of how in Benghazi the loss of Ambassador Stevens and three Navy Seals was all because of an anti-Muslim video that stirred up the locals has been utterly disproven as premeditated lies. Documents show she was prepped by Ben Rhodes and David Plouffe on her talking points despite the real truth being already known, all to make the Administration look good on its failed Libya policy.

Rice went on the talk shows in May 2014 to sell to the American public the Bowe Bergdahl exchange for four high level Taliban leaders. She argued Bergdahl served with honor and distinction, despite undisputed facts he abandoned his post at a time of war. Oh … and the Taliban Leaders returned to the battlefield.

Comments made January 16, 2016 by Rice in an NPR interview that Syria had no chemical weapons were disproven by the Washington Post and even a Kerry exit memo to Obama eleven days before Rice’s interview admitted Syria was still using “undeclared” chemical weapons.

She also was out in front selling the Iranian Nuclear Deal with false statements about its evolution under a new moderate political reality, where in fact nothing had changed.

And most recently serving as National Security Advisor, Rice was at the center of the “unmasking” of Trump campaign operatives, not for National security concerns, but for purely Political motives. More to come on this I’m sure and which may bubble up inconveniently around the time of Commencement.

I am disappointed, embarrassed and extremely agitated the College has decided to recognize such a person of questionable morality, who does not know right from wrong and for whom the ends justify the means however questionable. Is this behavior acceptable to the College? Why hold her to be an example to inspire and emulate for our graduating Senior Class. Is that what we want them to be?
Most agitated and disappointed,
Peter Healey ’73