{"id":9503,"date":"2011-09-01T15:34:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9503"},"modified":"2011-09-01T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T15:44:54","slug":"colin-powell-slams-dick-cheney%e2%80%99s-book-over-%e2%80%98cheap-shots%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9503","title":{"rendered":"Colin Powell Slams Dick Cheney\u2019s Book Over \u2018Cheap Shots\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> \u2013 Former Secretary of State<strong> Colin Powell<\/strong> dismissed the criticism leveled at him and others in former Vice President <strong>Dick Cheney\u2019s<\/strong> memoir, calling them \u201ccheap shots.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It was the latest volley in a clash that stretches back to their first years in former President <strong>George W. Bush\u2019s<\/strong> administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Powell<\/strong> said that if <strong>Cheney\u2019s<\/strong> staff and others in <strong>Bush\u2019s<\/strong> White House had been as forthcoming as the State Department in the case involving CIA operative<strong> Valerie Plame Wilson<\/strong>, the indictment and conviction of <strong>Cheney\u2019s<\/strong> friend and former chief of staff wouldn\u2019t have happened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Powell<\/strong> made the remarks on \u201cFace the Nation\u2019\u2019 ahead of the release of <strong>Cheney\u2019s<\/strong> book, \u201c<em>In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir<\/em>.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cheney<\/strong> said in an earlier NBC interview that the book would cause \u201cheads to explode\u2019\u2019 in Washington, a description<strong> Powell<\/strong> said he expected from a supermarket tabloid and not a former Vice President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Former Secretary of State Colin Powell dismissed the criticism leveled at him and others in former Vice President Dick Cheney\u2019s memoir, calling them \u201ccheap shots.\u2019\u2019 It was the latest volley in a clash that stretches back to their first years in former President George W. Bush\u2019s administration. Powell said that if Cheney\u2019s staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}