Blitzer's interview with 2 former CIA operatives was the best interview....and more important...than any I've seen in a long time.
To read the complete interview with the 2 CIA people, scroll down past Blitz' interview with Colin Powell's former deputy, Col Wilkerson, although that's pretty interesting too.
I think what struck me so unusual today, a CNN show actually had on two people representing two diffferent sides of the issue. I'm talking "fair and balanced", and I've got to say it blew me away to be watching "fair and balanced on CNN!.
This is one of those, are you sure it's CNN!
And because idiots in the Clinton administration didn't see the value of it. A legacy of shame and grief is what we got from that sorry presidency.
BLITZER: And I didn't mean to suggest you're a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what you are.This is great stuff. He side steps the question about his comments about on prewar planning, to be "precise" he diverts to post war planning. Even better, he knows he can't get away with his prewar comments because earlier in the interview Rumsfeld and another says they've never met the Wilkerson.
Politically I know you're a retired senior military officer in the U.S. Army. You worked for Colin Powell at the State Department as his chief of staff. And you wrote this recently in the Los Angeles Times: "The decisions of this cabal were sometimes made with the full and witting support of the president and sometimes with something less. More often than not, then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was simply steamrolled by this cabal. Its insular and secret workings were efficient and swift, not unlike the decision making one would associate more with a dictatorship than a democracy."
This cabal being, in your words, "the vice president, Dick Cheney, the defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, basically got what they wanted in getting the United States to war against Saddam Hussein."
WILKERSON: Well, Wolf, my points were a little more precise than that.
My points had to do with the two issues, decision issues that I had the most profound insights into -- the one being the post-invasion situation in Iraq, and the inept and incompetent planning therefore, mostly led by Douglas Feith under secretary of defense for policy's outfit.
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