Colin Powell: “bad news doesn't get better with time.”

To complement the official State Department computer in my office, I installed a laptop computer on a private line. My personal email account on the laptop allowed me direct access to anyone online. I started shooting emails to my…

Being responsible sometimes means making some people very mad.

What I did say to him, once you break it, you`re going to own it. And we`re going to be responsible for 26 million people standing there looking at us.

disregarding our treaty obligations will reverse over a century of U.S. policy and practice and undermine the protections of the law of war for our own troops.