By Steve Clemons

I should have the full transcript, complete with Questions & Answers, shortly. I have published posts on Wilkerson’s talk here and here. Until then, here are some of the most outstanding pieces of coverage of former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson’s comments yesterday which I moderated and chaired at the New America Foundation….

Listen. . .I’m at a conference on Israeli-Palestinian issues now and am writing this as I sit in the audience — but today I hosted one of the single most important meetings I have put together with former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson.

This article by New York Daily News DC Bureau Chief Thomas DeFrank reveals some startling news about President Bush’s reaction to Karl Rove’s ‘clumsiness’ in trying to discredit Joe Wilson.

For those of you in the Washington, D.C. area, we will be hosting a gathering of some of the nation’s leading diplomatic and military affairs journalists and other policy practitioners to hear former State Department Chief-of-Staff (2002-2005), Col. Lawrence Wilkerson.

George Bush says that he looked into the hearts and souls of his staff regarding the outing of Valerie Plame Wilson and that none of them said that they were “involved.” It is clear that a number of his key staff either lied to Bush — or he was in on it all along.

I have been interested in a number of large gaps in perception about American foreign policy and politics in general — and digging into them for a longish essay/polemic I am writing.

David Brooks asks a very good question about Harriet Miers in his New York Times column this morning: Can Harriet Miers write a lucid Court decision? Did Bush ask for a writing example? Did he ask Laura to review it? While I think it’s useful to have fundamentalists and establishment Republicans divide over Harrier Miers,…

This Financial Times article is a must read. Those whose expectations have been “dashed” and who played such a pivotal role in directing America’s armies to invade Iraq need to be held accountable for their recklessness. It’s not enough to lament and say, after the fact, that things didn’t go well. “It’s too bad.

John Bolton has preempted a Security Council briefing on Darfur. It was over Bolton’s ambivalence about coordinated international action in the case of genocide that Senator Russell Feingold — a staunch believer that the President should nearly always have the team he or she wants — decided to oppose Bolton’s nomination to the United Nations….

I was reading about Condoleeza Rice’s trip to Kyrgyzstan and her efforts to secure ongoing U.S. access to bases there. She succeeded, but in the various reports, it was noted that she skipped Uzbekistan — where Americans have had a base which will soon be abandoned.