The night after Colin Powell delivered his infamous argument to the United Nations justifying the invasion of Iraq, Lawrence Wilkerson, his chief of s...
Robert Naiman | Posted 06.26.2009 | World
"Speculation by people who never attended meetings"? Who is Powell trying to discredit? The Senate Intelligence Committee? Or his own former chief deputy?
Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
We interviewed Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell and he had some very interesting things to say about Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, was sharply critical of the CIA and the U.S. Congress in an app...
Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Nancy Pelosi, this week, accused the CIA of lying. Who, journalists collectively ask, could ever accuse the CIA of lying? Who indeed? Almost anybody, it seems to me.
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
As some liberals make the case against a Special Prosecutor, the lawyers who fought for the release of the torture memos push back and explain why prosecutions are the only response.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
Colin Powell's former chief of staff called on Friday for a special prosecutor to be appointed and "armed to the teeth" to investigate the authorizati...
Think Progress | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics
Weeks after President Obama was inaugurated, Dick Cheney gave an interview to Politico slamming Obama's detainee policies and warning that he was maki...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics
In its "Oral History of the Bush White House," Vanity Fair hears from Lawrence Wilkerson. The former top aide to Colin Powell compares our current pre...
Nick Turse | Posted 12.26.2008 | Politics
Lawrence B. Wilkerson has spent 31 years as a soldier in the US Army, including military service in Vietnam. He played a role in the death of a Vietnamese girl and came to disclose that.
Foreign Policy | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
Lifelong Republican Colin Powell surprised the audience of NBC's Meet the Press this weekend with his endorsement of Barack Obama for president, calli...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics