The omerta of the last five years unravels, as evidenced by the willingness of Colin Powell's chief aide to state the obvious, and more, as reported in the Daily Telegraph. The full transcript of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson's remarks before the not-exactly-left-wing New America Foundation appears here, courtesy the Washington Note.
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