Home > Programs
> Democracy
Now! > Tues., Nov. 22, 2005
Democracy Now!
ATTN: ALL STATIONS
From: Democracy Now!
Re: Rundown 11-22-05
PRSS Channel: A67.7
Colin Powell's Former Chief of Staff Col. Wilkerson on Prewar
Intel, Torture and How a White House "Cabal" Hijacked
U.S. Foreign Policy
Colin Powell's Former Chief of Staff Col. Wilkerson on Haiti:
Defends U.S. Role in Ouster of President, Claims Aristide's
"Will to Power is Excessive Even Obsessive"
Colin Powell's Former Chief of Staff Col. Wilkerson
on Prewar Intel, Torture and How a White House "Cabal"
Hijacked U.S. Foreign Policy
We spend the hour with a former senior member of the Bush
administration: Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. He served as chief
of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002
to 2005. In the interview, Wilkerson discusses what he calls
a "White House cabal", led by Dick Cheney and Donald
Rumsfeld; pre-war intelligence and Powell's February 2003
speech before the United Nations; the "memory lapse"
by Gen. Peter Pace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and much more. [includes rush
transcript]
Vice President Dick Cheney launched a fresh attack Monday
on critics of the Iraq war. In a speech at the American Enterprise
Institute in Washington D.C., Cheney again denied that the
Bush administration manipulated prewar intelligence to build
support for the invasion.
- Vice President Dick Cheney, November 21, 2005:
"The flaws in the intelligence are plain enough in
hindsight. But any suggestion that prewar information was
distorted, hyped or fabricated by the leader of the nation
is utterly false. Senator John McCain put it best: 'It is
a lie to say that the president lied to the American people.'
American soldiers and Marines serving in Iraq go out every
day into some of the most dangerous and unpredictable conditions.
Meanwhile, back in the United States, a few politicians
are suggesting these brave Americans were sent into battle
for a deliberate falsehood. This is revisionism of the most
corrupt and shameless variety. It has no place anywhere
in American politics, much less in the United States Senate."
Cheney's public appearance Monday was his second in less
than a week and the latest in a series over the past ten days
by senior officials to rebut growing charges that the administration
manipulated prewar intelligence and to counter growing pressure
in Congress to withdraw troops from Iraq.
Today, we are joined by a former senior member of the Bush
administration, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. He served as chief
of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002
to 2005. Last month, he caused a stir when he made a speech
at the New America Foundation.
- Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, October 19, 2005:
"What I saw was a cabal between the vice president
of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary
of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld on critical issues that made
decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made."
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson joins us today from a studio in
Washington DC for the hour.
- Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, served as chief of staff to
Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005.
Colin Powell's Former Chief of Staff Col. Wilkerson
on Haiti: Defends U.S. Role in Ouster of President, Claims
Aristide's "Will to Power is Excessive Even Obsessive"
We speak with Colin Powell's former chief of staff, Colonel
Lawrence Wilkerson, about the overthrow of Haitian President
Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004. Wilkerson defends the U.S.
role in Haiti at the time. Aristide has maintained he was
ousted in what he calls a modern-day kidnapping in the service
of a coup d'etat backed by the United States. [includes rush
transcript]
- Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, served as chief of staff to
Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005.
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
Our website is www.democracynow.org.
Our email address is mail@democracynow.org.
Democracy Now! is produced by Mike Burke, Sharif Abdel Kouddous,
Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press, Jeremy Scahill and Parvez Sharma.
Mike Di Filippo is our engineer.
Thanks also to Uri Galed, Angela Alston, Orlando Richards,
Simba Russeau, Johnny Sender, Rich Kim, Joe Murgio, John Randolph,
Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Eric Rweyemamu,
Jenny Filipazzo and Isis Phillips.
|
Listen
to the show
Help
whole
show
