Powell disputes Cheney book passages

By Caren Bohan,
WashPost
Published: August 28

A new book by former vice president Dick Cheney levels “cheap shots” at colleagues and mischaracterizes events, former secretary of state Colin L. Powell said Sunday.

Powell, whose disagreements with Cheney on issues such as Iraq have been well known for years, said that President George W. Bush’s national security team did not function smoothly and that he had advised Bush to try to resolve the problem.

“We had different views,” Powell told CBS’s “Face the Nation,” adding that the views could not be reconciled.

In the CBS interview, Powell was asked about passages in Cheney’s new book, “In My Time,” that are critical of Bush administration officials, including Powell and his successor, Condoleezza Rice.

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