Powell Aide Blasts Rice, Cheney- Rumsfeld 'Cabal'

[liberal N proud]

Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON , Oct 20 (IPS) - As top officials in the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney’s office await possible criminal indictments for their efforts to discredit a whistleblower, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Wednesday, accused a ''cabal'' led by Cheney and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld of hijacking U.S. foreign policy by circumventing or ignoring formal decision-making channels.

Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Powell’s chief of staff from 2001 to 2005 and when Powell was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces during the administration of former president George H.W. Bush, also charged that, as national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice was ''part of the problem'' by not ensuring that the policy-making process was open to all relevant participants.

''In some cases, there was real dysfunctionality,'' said Wilkerson, who spoke at the New America Foundation, a prominent Washington think tank. ''But in most cases..., she (Rice) made a decision that she would side with the president to build her intimacy with the president.''

''…the case that I saw for four-plus years,'' he said, ''was a case that I have never seen in my studies of aberrations, bastardisations, and perturbations in the national-security (policy-making) process'', he added.
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[Tim4319]

1. I wish he would have said all of that prior to him going to the UN!

I believe he would have saved a lot of his credibility! Right now, it just seems like he is a turncoat!

[spanone]

3. And a whole lot of LIVES. This is CRIMINAL.

[cliss]

4. Yes. Why is he speaking out

now? And, who cares? We all knew it was a pack of lies. So did the rest of the world. And this Aide thinks he's telling us something new?

During the build-up to war, Powell sat on his hands. Worse, he helped things along as best he could. What about that ridiculous Clown-show at the U.N., as Colon Bowel had that "slide-show" of a trailer with supposed nuclear stuff in it. What a cheap stunt. What a two-bit prostitute.

Same goes for you, Lawrence Wilkerson. We're not impressed that you're jumping ship NOW.

[Just Me]

2. Oh yeah?!?! Well, wtf did your boss do to block that "aberration"?

:grr: HUH?!?!?!