VP wanted to link Iraq and al-Qaeda, not stop next attack: Powell aide
(NEWSER) - The interrogation methods Dick Cheney so highly touts were put in place in 2002 not to prevent another terror attack, a former aide to Colin Powell writes in the Washington Note, but to dig up an Iraq-al-Qaeda connection to justify going to war. And it was Cheney himself, “frightened” by the Abu Ghraib scandal, who stopped the methods he accuses President Obama of discarding at the expense of US security, Lawrence Wilkerson adds. More»
