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...government lawyers debated the meaning of "any means at our disposal." Even before the U.S. went into Afghanistan in October 2001, State Department officials and Pentagon military lawyers were incensed that political appointees wanted to exempt captured Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters from the Geneva Conventions. "[Secretary of State Colin] Powell was irate over it," recalls a former State Department official. "He was arguing, 'You can't not follow the Geneva Conventions...
Bamford implies that Tenet, the ultimate staff guy, is partly to blame for this failure of nerve. When Secretary of State Colin Powell was putting together his now discredited speech to the U.N. last year about Saddam's WMD program, he stood virtually alone against the hard-liners, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy Stephen Hadley, all of whom seemed keen to pump up the Secretary's talking points. Cheney's staff handed Powell a 50-page draft of allegations; the Secretary rejected most of them as unsupportable, with the hard-liners, Rice and even Tenet fighting...
Leila A. Strachan ’04 spoke of the future, while Colin K. Jost ’04—the former president of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—delivered an often-inaccurate disquisition on the history of Class Day, inexplicably deeming himself “arguably more powerful than Larry Summers, physically...
...uncanny ability to take something barely comprehensible and explain it in a way that pretty much anyone can understand,” says Colin J. Barclay ’07, who was enrolled in the course...
Facing an across-the-board drop in graduate admissions from abroad this spring, Summers fired off public letters to Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge ’67, pressing them to address the bottleneck in student visas that was deterring applicants from coming to Harvard and other American schools...