[saveliberty]

Colin Powell has lawyered up. I think that the worst of it is that Powell was supposed to be a friend of W and withheld information. Some friend.

He has hurt Scooter Libby, the Vice President and the President for no apparent reason other than to cover for Armitage. Gosh, in the dreaded private sector, you let your boss know about things that may/will/did go wrong and to do what you have to do to clean up the mess and prevent it from recurring. Instead, it looks like the act of someone who had an axe to grind.

[anita]

He didn't just stop there. With his assistant Carl Ford he conspired to block John Bolton too.

[demkicker]

Colin Powell has lawyered up

I don't doubt you, but how do you know?

[snugs]

The axe to grind IMHO is Iraq - rightly or wrongly he feels duped over Iraq and feels whatever he says to others "privately" is OK. He says these things knowing they will be leaked.

It is very sad I am struck very much by a more human story in this. In Mary Cheney's book she publicly thanks Alma Powell for providing the Cheney family with a Thanksgiving Meal when her father was hospitalized and unable to organise it. It is personal relationships like this that get destroyed when one acts in this bitter and resentful way that Powell has.

[ConservativeGreek]

Powell was supposed to be a friend of W and withheld information.

Are you sure W should have been told?
The Justice Department yes, but the Prez in what could have been a crime..........not sure about that. Not sure he should be in the info loop........