If you care about the abuse of executive privilege

This is not the way America was intended to be run by its founders and it is not the interpretation of the Constitution that any of the founders ... would have subscribed to.

The above is a quote from Lawrence B. Wilkerson, who was Chief of Staff at the Department of State from August 2002 to January 2005. He was a long-time aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and a learned and strong critic of the administration.

Read the whole interview. While he admits that interpretation of intelligence is difficult, he also feels he participated in a hoax against the American people, an act he greatly regrets:

It makes me feel terrible. I've said in other places that it was-- constitutes the lowest point in my professional life. My participation in that presentation at the UN constitutes the lowest point in my professional life.

I participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council. How do you think that makes me feel? Thirty-one years in the United States Army and I more or less end my career with that kind of a blot on my record? That's not a very comforting thing.

This was found via Slashdot. Oh, and I'm with Col. Wilkerson: "I'd prefer to see the squabble of democracy to the efficiency of dictators."