Misha Lerner

Watch CBS News Videos Online Out of the mouth of babes the truth will come. Fourth grader Terence Scott, posing the final question at President Obama's town hall meeting yesterday afternoon at the University of New Orleans, as the president, "Why do people hate you?" He seemed genuinely distressed about the harsh words he has heard people lob at President Obama. He added, "They supposed to love you," said the youngster, "and God is love." That just broke my heart. The child is right, but that's not the reality in which we live. President Obama took some heat for only spending four hours in ... Read Full Story

Condoleezza Rice thought she was safe by appearing at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue to give an evening lecture. This was her first appearance in Washington D.C. since leaving office. Just days after telling students at Stanford University that waterboarding was legal "by definition if it was authorized by the president," she was pressed on the matter by a fourth grader, Misha Lerner, who asked her: What did Rice think about the things President Obama's administration was saying about the methods the Bush administration had used to get information from detainees? This was probably a shock to her, since the previous questions were ... Read Full Story

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Jewish elementary school students that the Bush administration did not use torture tactics. Her remarks were in response to a question from a fourth-grader about interrogation of prisoners. Read Full Story

Teachers didn’t allow Misha to actually use the word torture in his question, but he still got the message across. I think Misha has a future career in journalism: From Democracy Now : Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been questioned again over her support of the Bush administration’s interrogation techniques and use of waterboarding—this time by a fourth grader. During an event at the Jewish Primary Day School in Washington, Misha Lerner asked Rice what she thought about the things President Obama’s administration was saying about the methods the Bush administration had used to get information from prisoners. Rice answered by repeatedly ... Read Full Story

Part 1: Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, visited Auckland this weekend. Here to greet her, in their usual warm friendly manner, was a crowd of activists who marched through an unusua. . . Read Full Story