What Did Powell Know, and Why Isn't He Subjected to the Pelosi Treatment?

[babsbunny]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/what-did-powell-know-and_b_207154.html

Sunday morning Colin Powell went on "Face the Nation", ostensibly to debate the future of the Republican party. But late in the interview, Powell was walked, oh so delicately, into the past by moderator Bob Schieffer. The general was asked what he knew about the use of waterboarding and other "unpleasant things," to use last week's Cheneyism, and Powell gave what in Washington is known as a non-denial denial.

Here's what he was almost denying: an ABC news report, one of several such reports, that pinpoints Powell as a member of the Principals Committee which met frequently to approve, in excruciating detail, what should be done to whom in the pursuit of interrogation enhancement. Why were the Secretaries of State and Defense and the National Security Advisor (Ms. Rice, at the time) dragged into such close-up work deep in the muck of detainee abuse? Because the CIA was even then getting cold feet about being hung out to dry if Cheney ever started losing the argument, and wanted high-level fingerprints all over the operation.

[Jim Sagle]

1. What Powell knew is irrelevant, because he's a Republican.

He isn't subjected to The Pelosi Treatment, because he's a Republican.

This has been another in the series Short Answers to Easy Questions.

[tom_paine]

3. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

[spanone]

2. what did bu$h* know, he was right where the buck stops afterall

[KharmaTrain]

4. Powell's A Chickenshit...

He could be a real hero by coming forward with what was said and who said what about breaking international law (coughcheneycough) and be a strong advocate for independent investigations and for demanding those responsible to be held accountable. Instead he send his buddy Wilkerson out to do it, but the Colin is still blocked.

[CTyankee]

5. The Colin needs a cleansing...

I wonder if that will happen...

[ToolTex]

6. Exactly right! This morning was Powell's opportunity to confess to the world

that he was rick-rolled by rummy and cheney /begging/ forgiveness for starting the war and explaining why he was unable to influence the entire torture mess; citing names and dates. Especially now that we know the torture was only to justify attacking Iraq. I believe he blew his final chance for any measure of exoneration.

Powell had a chance to become an American folk hero this morning, but now however, he will be remembered in history as a useless lackey and possibly an accessory to war crimes.

[spanone]

7. worse yet, he'll be remembered as a republican

[KharmaTrain]

9. His Legacy Is "Secured"...

Part of the worst regime in American history. Geesh, we're not hearing his name as "presidential timber" anymore.

:fistbump:

[stray cat]

8. Powell isn't even in office anymore nor was he in charge of making the decisions

I also don't think he has claimed to never know anything about it.