Chris Nelson on the Cheney-Rumsfeld Cabal with Comments on Lawrence Wilkerson, Richard Armitage, and Colin Powell

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Note to TWN Readers: There has been huge coverage of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson’s talk at the New America Foundation — and soon I will create a listing of all of the best items for the sake of future perusal.

Extensive Coverage of Lawrence Wilkerson’s Call For Transparency and Disciplined Process in Foreign Policy Decisions that Involve “Sending Men and Women to Die”

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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….

Lawrence Wilkerson: “A Secretive Cabal Running American Foreign Policy is Undermining American Democracy”

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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.

Harriet Miers: Can She Write a Clear Court Decision? Can We Confirm a Ghost Writer?

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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,…

Chastened Proponents of the Iraq War Huddle Together

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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.