The revered-in-tons-of-corners former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft definitively breaks ranks with the Bush administration in an article by nearly the same name, “Breaking Ranks,” appearing in the upcoming Monday issue of The New Yorker. The article will outline what decisions and events have built up to turn Brent Scowcroft against this Bush administration.

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.

Here is the full transcript of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson’s speech yesterday, including Q&A. This has not been edited or fully reviewed yet — but wanted to get up ASAP and may revise if there are mistakes found.

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,…