Colin L Powell

Credit NBC with putting together back-to-back lures for political junkies. Sarah Palin's long-rumored appearance on "Saturday Night Live" happens tonight. And you can just keep your set tuned to the network when you go to bed, because the "must-see" TV on Sunday morning will be Colin L. Powell's appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Congressional Democrats on Sunday kept up their attacks on substandard care for injured soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as they prepared for hearings on the issue this week. "If it's this bad at the outpatient facilities at Walter Reed, how is it in the rest of the country?" Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on ABC's "This Week." "Walter Reed is our crown jewel." In a letter sent Sunday to Defense Secretary Robert M.

Former CIA Director George J. Tenet accepted blame Sunday for inaccurate statements made by then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in a 2003 address to the United Nations about Iraq's weapons capability. Tenet spent three days vetting Powell's Feb. 5, 2003, speech to the U.N. Security Council and thought it was "good and solid," the former CIA chief said. At the time, Powell, with Tenet seated behind him at the U.N.

Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on Sunday called for the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison and a rethinking of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy he authored as head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The public comments represent Powell's effort to further distance himself from the Bush administration he once served.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the Bush administration's Iraq war planning Sunday after her predecessor, Colin L. Powell, said he had made a case to send more troops to deal with the war's aftermath. Rice said she did not "remember specifically" what instance Powell was referring to when he said he recommended to President Bush that more troops be sent.

Excerpts from letters, released Thursday, from former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on detainee legislation. Powell's letter: Dear Senator [John] McCain: I just returned to town and learned about the debate taking place in Congress to redefine Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention. I do not support such a step and believe it would be inconsistent with the McCain amendment on torture which I supported last year.

A Republican-controlled Senate committee dealt a blow to President Bush's national security agenda Thursday, approving a bill that would expand the legal rights of terrorism detainees. The rebuke capped a day of bruising political combat in which Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) released a letter from Colin L. Powell, the president's former secretary of State, opposing Bush's proposal to allow more extreme methods of interrogation.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on Friday ended a five-day tour of tsunami-damaged areas, inspecting destruction in a Sri Lankan coastal province and promising the country's residents that "we will be here for a long period of time." Powell, who visited Indonesia and Thailand this week, flew by helicopter to an area near the southern city of Galle, a onetime Dutch colonial settlement that lost 4,100 of its 991,000 residents to the pounding waters.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell declined to say Saturday whether Sudan was still committing genocide in the country's western region of Darfur through a campaign of killings, rapes and other abuses by pro-government Arab militias that have left about 2 million black Africans homeless. Powell came to Kenya to witness the signing of a peace deal today to end a separate conflict in Sudan, the north-south civil war.

Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has joined one of Silicon Valley's best-known venture capital firms. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers on Wednesday said Powell joined the firm this month as a strategic limited partner, a position created for him. Powell will offer strategic advice to the firm and its portfolio companies, said John Doerr, a general partner at the Menlo Park, Calif., venture firm.