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A former top aide to Colin Powell says his involvement in the former secretary of state's presentation to the United Nations on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was "the lowest point" in his life. "I wish I had not been involved in it," says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a longtime Powell adviser who served as his chief of staff from 2002 through 2005. "I look back on it, and I still say it was the lowest point in my life." Wilkerson is one of several insiders interviewed for the CNN Presents documentary "Dead Wrong -- Inside an Intelligence Meltdown." The program,...

PREWAR INTELLIGENCE WASHINGTON, July 30 - A senior leader of Al Qaeda who was captured in Pakistan several months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was the main source for intelligence, since discredited, that Iraq had provided training in chemical and biological weapons to members of the organization, according to American intelligence officials. Intelligence officials say the detainee, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle, recanted the claims sometime last year, but not before they had become the basis of statements by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and others...

US intelligence analysts misunderstood intercepted Iraqi communications, believing the orders were meant to deceive UN weapons inspectors searching for chemical or biological agents, a new report says. Instead, the conversation between two Iraqi Republican Guard Corps commanders that included the order to remove reference to "nerve agents" from "wireless" communications was intended to ensure the regime was in compliance with international demands to disarm, the Foreign Affairs magazine reported in its online edition this week. That conversation was intercepted by the United States in 2002. The article was based on a recently declassified US Joint Forces Command report assessing Iraqi...

CBS and NBC were satisfied Tuesday night to note how Secretary of State Colin Powell contended Osama bin Laden's audio tape offered proof of his links to Iraq and then to point out how others in the government fear it's a signal of an impending terrorist attack on the U.S. But ABC's Peter Jennings wasn't satisfied with just doing that. He once again offered the most anti-administration spin of the night with a trilogy of three stories addressing subjects not touched by CBS or NBC. Anchoring the February 11 World News Tonight from Phoenix, Jennings argued that "a lot...

It was a spectacular performance, and by the time Colin Powell was finished, I was a complete convert. But what, exactly, have I been converted from and to? It's a question I've been turning over in my mind ever since last Wednesday's tour de force before members of the U.N. Security Council. I am, for one thing, converted to the idea that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is in "material breach" of the U.N. mandate he was required to carry out. Before the Powell show, the analogy in my head was of sheriff's deputies executing a search warrant. It was an...

Caption This Photo - U.N. Talking Heads Converse During Colin Powell's Briefing on Iraqi WMD at the U.N. Security Council. Members of the UN Security Council have been reacting to the presentation by Secretary of State Colin Powell outlining the US case against Iraq.

IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO UN RESPONDING TO POWELL IN UN SECURITY COUNCIL NOW ON CSPAN.... ON NOW.

So, we're all led to believe that Colin Powell is the only dove in the administration, (which I do not belive, any man that can say: "..we're going to cut it off and kill it..." is no dove) and now Iraq has their boy on TV calling him a liar and a cheat.The same clymer is disputing what Sec. Powell said Hans Blix said.My guess is that Sec. Powell AND Hans baby are going to have some comments that will apprise Iraq of how short a period of time they have left.My guess is Saddam is not going to see...

PARIS - President Jacques Chirac said Thursday the evidence against Iraq presented by US Secretary of State Colin Powell to the UN Security Council was not enough to change France's anti-war stance. "We refuse to think that war is inevitable," Chirac said. The evidence furnished by Powell "justifies continued work by the United Nations weapons inspectors. Iraq must answer their questions and cooperate more actively," Chirac said through a spokeswoman. Chirac spoke by telephone Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mexican President Vicente Fox, Syrian President Bashar Assad and several other leaders to defend France's position. Chirac appeared to be...