Here’s an interesting quote in a damning National Journal piece about what the president knew in the run-up to the Iraq war about the aluminum tube issue:
"Presidential knowledge was the ball game," says a former senior government official outside the White House who was personally familiar with the damage-control effort. "The mission was to insulate the president. It was about making it appear that he wasn’t in the know. You could do that on Niger. You couldn’t do that with the tubes."
A "a former senior government official outside the White House who was personally familiar with the damage-control effort"? Your suspicions in an email, please. My question: when and for what will Colin Powell eventually tell what he knows?
The Dish 