Senior Aide to Colin Powell: Cheney 'cabal' hijacked US foreign policy

Financial Times ^

[popdonnelly]

Thank you for your opinions, Mr. Wilkerson. Now the news media will start reporting them as facts.

"If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog." - Harry Truman

[Steve_Seattle]

A cabal? Cheney and Bush were elected!!! Anonymous State Department careerists were NOT elected!!

[petercooper]

CHENEY/ALLEN 2008!

[Steve_Seattle]

This freak is basically saying that our elected officials had the temerity to override the entrenched, unelected bureaucracy. He's basically admitting that there was a cabal in the bureaucracy working at odds with our elected government, but he's calling the elected government the cabal. He sounds like a very dangerous man, the kind of man who would be in cahoots with Joseph Wilson.

[bjc]

If Wilkerson writes like he talks - see transcript - not even liberal publishers will touch it.

[Sacajaweau]

I've been looking for this for a long time. It is from The Washington Times, February 14, 2004. If you think it's important, too, can someone post the article or make a separate thread?

Excerpt: "In May 2003, after his mission to Niger BUT before his July 6, 2003, Times Op-Ed Piece, Mr. Wilson began working for Kerry......

Don't tell me that Wilson published that article without the Dems permission. He was "ordered" to publish it and the whole plot began. Kerry lived off of Wilson's Niger mission for quite a while.

Then Berger (also on Kerry's campaign) got caught. Berger was "fired" and within a few days, Wilson got fired.

P.S. If Wilson is going to sue the Whitehouse, he better think twice because his paychecks all comes from and go to the Dems.

There's another that that I remember. Hillary was asked about Berger. Because it was during the 9-11 Commission crapola, Hillary said: "The timing speaks for itself". She didn't answer the question!!

[Steve_Seattle]

They actually get to use the word "cabal."

And they use the word inappropriately, in reference to our elected officials and their immediate appointees. That is NOT a cabal. A cabal is a rogue group within government that is secretly working to undermine the authority of the elected officials. Wilkerson is actually DEFENDING the cabal that exists within State and Defense, probably the very people who have been working with the Joseph Wilsons of the world to undermine the presidency.

[finnman69]

'Cabal'


This fool subscribes to the Al Franken/Michael Moore view of the world.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

He forgot to call it "a neo-con cabal," and then drop names like Perle, Wolfowitz and Kristol. Tsk, tsk - Pat Buchanan doesn't make that mistake!

[victoria wilson]

In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said

I wonder if Lawrence Wilkerson knows the fictional Terrance Wilkinson?

[victoria wilson]

The link in post #50 goes to a July 8, 2003 post exposing a fictional source who claimed President Bush directly ordered intelligence be fixed.

The date of the original article was right around Joe Wilson's July 6, 2003 op-ed.

[Free as the breeze]

Secretary of State trumps Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff in rank. S of S is in line for succession to the Presidency. The C of JCS is not. So it is correct to refer to Powell as former S of S, rather than General (retd.) or C of JCS.

[jw777]

totally. sounds like another richard clarke, joe wilson, what's his name Snow and others.


when's tenents book coming out?

[jw777]

totally. sounds like another richard clarke, joe wilson, what's his name Snow and others.


when's tenents book coming out?

[Dolphy]

He sounds like a very dangerous man, the kind of man who would be in cahoots with Joseph Wilson.

Absolutely...Wilson was not a one man show.

[cardinal4]

Hmmm, I guess now we know who the "leak" was..

[coconutt2000]

I suspect that the source of the article was talking about how Rumsfeld and Cheney conspired to change all the toilet paper used in the White House and the Pentagon in order to save money, and how they circumnavigated the normal bureaucracy to save time.

[rip033]

Interesting. Basically this Rove thing is being talked as if everything in the Bush-Cheney political career was planned criminal activity. I've seen almost everyone part of this administration somehow tucked into the speculating. Rove, Libby, Cheney, Powell etc.... I think two days ago it was criminal at how McCain was defeated in the 2000 primaries by Bush-Cheney. Next thing you know they'll have the first lady tied into all this the way the blogs and rumors are going. There is a major push by the Dems to criminalize all Republicans. It sounds like the Dems are desperate or fearing something. Nobody has ever been punished for the games that have been played over the last five years. 2000 Election, Florida being called early prior to the polls closing. Rathergate, Newsweek Koran toilet report. The list just goes on and on. This may be the one thing that may blow up for the anti Bush establishment and bite them back. Right now it's a wait and see. We shall see.

[RJL]

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: “What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.

You mean to tell me that executives made decisions without a vote from the working bureaucrats!

Why am I not astounded!

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Mr Wilkerson said former president George H.W. Bush “one of the finest presidents we have ever had” understood how to make foreign policy work. In contrast, he said, his son was “not versed in international relations and not too much interested in them either”.

Then why in the hell has Bush not withdrawn form the UN?

I am highly critical of Bush's leftist moves, Miers, et al. but if Bush is so "uninterested" in international crap, then why has he kept the US in the corrupt, anti-American UN?

Why did he give $15 billion to Africa to maintain female genital mutilation and bad sex practices?

Why does he give billions to anti-American nations who then get it to corrupt dictators?

I differ greatly with the opinion of this guy. George Bush has played ass-kisser #1 to the UN and other international global welfare conduits. He has not showed that he is "uninterested" but quite the opposite--Bush has placed global welfare as a priority over the defense and security needs of our nation.