"Underlings exploited Bush's detachment" and deliberately ignored evidence

wilkerson's b-a-a-a-ck...

A top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that wrongheaded ideas for the handling of foreign detainees arose from White House and Pentagon officials who argued that "the president of the United States is all-powerful" and the Geneva Conventions irrelevant.

In an Associated Press interview, former Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson also said President Bush was "too aloof, too distant from the details" of postwar planning. Underlings exploited Bush's detachment and made poor decisions, Wilkerson said.

underlings...? like dick cheney...? like donald rumsfeld...?

again, no surprises here... i just wish to hell wilkerson and powell had gone public and raised holy hell long before this...

ok, now let's consider for a minute the headline the ap gave this story... ready...?

Ex-Powell Aide Criticizes Detainee Effort

well, y-e-a-a-ah... i guess that's ONE of the possible headlines... but get this, buried about 17 paragraphs in...

[Wilkerson] said he has almost, but not quite, concluded that Cheney and others in the administration deliberately ignored evidence of bad intelligence and looked only at what supported their case for war.

oh, well then... "deliberately ignored..." small point... just mentioned in passing... sheesh...

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