Cheney 'cabal' hijacked US foreign policy

FT.com / World / US - Cheney 'cabal' hijacked US foreign policy: "Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: 'What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.
'Now it is paying the consequences of making those decisions in secret, but far more telling to me is America is paying the consequences.'"