Powell's Widening Credibility Gap

By Robert Parry
September 17, 2005

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell appears to have widened his credibility gap with his latest attempt to shift the blame for bogus evidence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction onto mid-level intelligence analysts – and away from himself and other senior officials.

In an interview with ABC News, Powell fingered “some people in the intelligence community who knew at that time that some of these sources were not good, and shouldn’t be relied upon, and they didn’t speak up. That devastated me.”