Colin Powell

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  • George Tenet, spook for all seasons

    The former CIA chief seems strangely oblivious that his self-serving defense is shredding the remains of his reputation.
    By Sidney Blumenthal May 3, 2007

  • How Libby became Cheney's pawn

    The vice president knew the intelligence for the Iraq war was cooked. So he launched his aide to smear the man who took the information public.
    By Sidney Blumenthal February 1, 2007

  • The spy who came in from the boardroom

    Why John Michael McConnell, a top executive at a private defense contractor, should not be allowed to run our nation's intelligence agencies.
    By Tim Shorrock January 8, 2007

  • Newt Gingrich's "outsider" act

    As he eyes the White House, the former speaker tries to distance himself from the Bush administration, but he helped the president make his biggest mistake.
    By Alex Koppelman December 22, 2006

  • Behind Bush's "new way forward"

    A battered group of neocons delivered the president his latest war plan, letting him reject the grave warnings of the Iraq Study Group and deny that we're losing the war.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 20, 2006

  • Powell: "Army is about broken"

    Fighting words from Bush's former Secretary of State.
    By Kerry Lauerman December 18, 2006

  • Bush's policy quagmire

    The president is already signaling he'll disregard James A. Baker III's recommendations for reshaping U.S. policy in the Middle East. But will Baker sit still?
    By Sidney Blumenthal October 26, 2006

  • The evil of banality

    A new biography confirms that Colin Powell went along with the Iraq war because he was following orders. The tragic irony of the good soldier is that he deserted the people he was trying to protect.
    By Gary Kamiya October 12, 2006

  • Where torture got him

    Bush's effort to gut the Geneva Conventions has antagonized the military, split Republicans, and undercut his war on terror.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 21, 2006

  • Powell: Bush tactics cause world to doubt the United States

    Memo to Tony Snow: Maybe you shouldn't call the former secretary of state "confused."
    By Tim Grieve September 19, 2006

  • The GOP's tortured logic

    The Republicans who now agree with the president that the War Crimes Act is too vague said something very different 10 years ago.
    By Mark Benjamin September 19, 2006

  • The hypothetical question Bush can't answer

    What if other countries took it upon themselves to redefine the Geneva Conventions' protections?
    By Tim Grieve September 15, 2006

  • Republicans, Democrats defy Bush on detainees

    Senate Armed Services Committee approves an alternative to the White House plan.
    By Tim Grieve September 14, 2006

  • Quote of the Day

    Et tu, Colin?
    By Tim Grieve September 14, 2006

  • How bad is he?

    Bush ran as a moderate, tacked right and governed ineffectually -- before 9/11. Since then he's become the most radical American president in history -- and arguably the worst.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 12, 2006

  • The neocons' next war

    By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it.
    By Sidney Blumenthal August 3, 2006

  • Mission accomplished, three years later

    What was the mission? Was it -- is it -- worth the price?
    By Tim Grieve May 1, 2006

  • Colonel of truth

    Former Bush insider Lawrence Wilkerson blasts Dick Cheney's "paranoia" -- and says Cheney and Rumsfeld are to blame for Abu Ghraib.
    By Mark Follman February 27, 2006

  • A marriage cemented by terror

    Bush and Sharon's strong relationship was based on mutual self-interest -- and a shared good-and-evil ideology.
    By Nathan Guttman January 24, 2006

  • The long march of Dick Cheney

    For his entire career, he sought untrammeled power. The Bush presidency and 9/11 finally gave it to him -- and he's not about to give it up.
    By Sidney Blumenthal November 24, 2005

  • Shipwrecked

    Bush has so thoroughly destroyed the Republican establishment that no one, not even his dad, can rescue him now.
    By Sidney Blumenthal October 27, 2005

  • The good news about Bolton

    Even if he's ultimately confirmed, those who spoke out against him have signaled to the world that he doesn't represent all Americans -- and ensured he won't wield a big stick.
    By Ian Williams May 13, 2005

  • A special relationship gone sour

    Tony Blair wouldn't come clean about his deep problems with the Bush team, making him look furtive and dishonest. And he paid the price at the polls.
    By Sidney Blumenthal May 12, 2005

  • The general's revenge

    Colin Powell, no longer the loyal soldier, rises up to help stop conservative hard-liner John Bolton from becoming U.N. ambassador.
    By Sidney Blumenthal April 28, 2005

  • John Bolton, Colin Powell and Jonah Goldberg

    As the former secretary of state drops a dime or two on the U.N. nominee, the National Review Online columnist asks: What's all the fuss?
    By Tim Grieve April 22, 2005
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