What the President "Didn't" know
And when he didn't know it....
Wouldn't it be the most disgusting thing in the world if Powell now saw his role as disaffected sycophant to right wing extremism in the light of protecting the person everyone in the Bush administration is supposedly working for?
I guess according to that formula, the worst thing we can say about GWB is that he was a poor personnel manager. He had a rogue staff with their own agenda that they conspired to keep secret from him.
And even though he held the highest office in the country, he was either too oblivious, too naïve, too incompetent, or too trusting [HI KARL, TOO BAD YOU DID NOT GET INDICTED... YET. NICE TRY] to be able to execute a course correction and reorient his rogue staff back to his enlightened agenda.
Ex-Powell Aide Suggests Pre-War Memo Was Kept From Bush
By Marc Perelman
November 11, 2005
A former top official in the Bush administration is suggesting that a White House memo outlining the need for hundreds of thousands of troops for the Iraq invasion was kept from the president. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to then-secretary of state Colin Powell during President Bush's first term, said in a November 7 speech that the National Security Council had prepared a pre-war memo recommending that hundreds of thousands of troops and other security personnel were needed. "I don't know if the president saw it," Wilkerson told the audience of military officers and international lawyers, who had gathered at the military for a conference on on international humanitarian law