Reply #7: Powell is done

[Rambis]

So is Condasleeza I wish I could find the link to the reporter that sat with powell for a GQ interview. The guy was gowbsmacked at what he was saying. He went to Powell's aids 4 of them and asked if he was serious about the stuff he was saying and they assured the guy yes. He spills his guts about Iraq everything and then recants it all the next day.


this refers to it....
The news in the GQ article was not that Powell had made himself available, but that his staff, apparently, was encouraged to talk openly with the author. When the story started to raise discomforting questions the State department spokesman, Ambassador Richard Boucher, told reporters that Hylton had violated journalistic ground rules with some of the interviews, including Wilkerson’s, which, Boucher said, was not supposed to have been on the record.

However, there it was, for all to read, one of the Secretary of State’s top aides and one who has known him for 15 years at that, admitting what has been rumored for months that no, he didn’t think we’d be seeing Colin Powell serve another four years as the nation’s top diplomat, assuming Mr. Bush won re-election. And the more illuminating and candid opinion of Powell as mentally and physically tired.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/07/opinion/diplomatic/main616174.shtml