Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is pinning the blame for his false Iraq testimony before the United Nations in 2003 not on his superiors in the Bush administration nor on ex-CIA director George Tenet – but “on some people in the intelligence community” at lower levels.
In his first extensive interview since his resignation early this year, Powell told ABC News that his reputation has suffered because his assurances about Iraq’s supposed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons proved false. To critics, the interview is just the latest example of Powell's lifetime of political opportunism.