Colin Powell

We are now eight months into the Obama administration and the U.S. Agency for International Development still doesn’t have an administrator. The vetting process is apparently so out of control that Paul Farmer, a longtime luminary in the development community and the administration’s leading candidate for the job, dropped out. New York Times columnist Nick [...]

Here’s another Ted Kennedy video. This is the departed Massachusetts senator in a press conference after then-Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered his fateful and now-thoroughly discredited presentation to the United Nations on the “threat” posed by Saddam Hussein. The quaver of his voice testifies to his fears about the consequences of the invasion he [...]

As mentioned yesterday, Colin Powell’s former State Department chief of staff, ret. Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, posted at The Washington Note that an “investigation” he was conducting determined that the Bush administration torture program existed primarily to manufacture “a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qa’ida” to justify an invasion. That’s a line of inquiry suggested [...]

How would CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta prevent the next dubious intelligence-based public presentation, a la then-Secretary of State Colin Powell’s 2003 disgrace on Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction before the United Nations?
“I promised the president of the United States that if I was fortunate enough to be able to be honored with this [...]

Gen. Colin Powell’s endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama is living up to the hype.
From the new Washington Post poll:

ROANOKE, Va. — Colin Powell is back.
The most respected Republican foreign policy voice in America will speak on “Meet The Press” Sunday, sparking rumors about a potential presidential endorsement. Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign will be listening closely.
Obama spokesperson Linda Douglas said today that she has no news on the Powell front, but the campaign would [...]