Ex-Powell Aide Blasts Cheney

Talk radio was all abuzz last night about this piece of news:

Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government's foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.

In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: “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.

“Now it is paying the consequences of making those decisions in secret, but far more telling to me is America is paying the consequences.”

This is the kind of stuff that I hope Fitzgerald gets into during his TreasonGate prosecutions. The corporate media did not want to touch these matters, but somebody has to.

The other thing late night talk radio was abuzz about was that Tom DeLay will be booked and released.

I love it. God help me -- I do love it so.