DC Dispatches

…and, oh yeah, he’s still a Republican. Colin Powell was on Face The Nation today. Bob Schieffer lead the interview by asking him first about a recent volley of remarks that one might say started with Powell critizing conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh during Q&A at a cybersecurity conference, as reported by Chris Strohm of Congress [...]

Recently the Central Intelligence Agency made news with a high profile announcement about “black sites” and interrogation methods. CIA, as always, used very careful language: CIA no longer operates detention facilities or black sites and has proposed a plan to decommission the remaining sites… This seems to make it clear that there remain such sites, [...]