Former Powell aide regrets role in WMD fabrication

One of several inside players who were interviewed for an upcoming CNN "expose" of the "fixed" intelligence around the WMD claim says he wishes he hadn't done it.

"I wish I had not been involved in it," says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a longtime Powell adviser who served as his chief of staff from 2002 through 2005. "I look back on it, and I still say it was the lowest point in my life."

..."(Powell) came through the door ... and he had in his hands a sheaf of papers, and he said, 'This is what I've got to present at the United Nations according to the White House, and you need to look at it,'" Wilkerson says in the program. "It was anything but an intelligence document. It was, as some people characterized it later, sort of a Chinese menu from which you could pick and choose."

CNN reports, "A presidential commission that investigated the pre-war WMD intelligence found much of it to be 'dead wrong.'"

Around here, we call that lying.