All the blah, blah, blah about his gravitas and dignity. Stories about how he really did try to get to the truth before he went before the UN and helped lie us into war. People gave him a pass on Mei Li but really, it turns out, he is just as craven as the rest of the RepubliCons. He has betrayed the military code of honor and gone against the Geneva Convention. No doubt, sooner or later, an apologist will come out for Powell and suggest he did it out of the fear we were under immanent threat of another attack. The response to that, regarding the first person, the gang of 6 met about, Zabaydah is below.
“There's one serious flaw in the ABC report: It allows the administration's version of Zubaydah's value as an intelligence asset to go unrefuted. ABC calls Zubaydah a "top al Qaeda operative" and reports that "
ter he was waterboarded, officials say Zubaydah gave up valuable information that led to the capture of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammad and fellow 9/11 plotter Ramzi bin al-Shibh."
But as I've written, administration statements about Zubaydah have been almost entirely contradicted by authoritative accounts from author Ron Suskind and New York Times reporter David Johnston.
Zubaydah, it turns out, was a mentally ill minor functionary, nursed back to health by the FBI, who under CIA torture sent investigators chasing after false leads about al-Qaeda plots on American nuclear plants, water systems, shopping malls, banks and supermarkets.
The most valuable information Zubaydah gave investigators about Mohammed was his nickname, which, as Dan Eggen and Dafna Linzer reported in The Washington Post, the CIA had already learned seven months earlier.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/04/10/BL2008041002069_pf.html 
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