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Maddow vs Powell, Ctd

By The Daily Dish
Apr 3 2009, 1:46 AM ET

A reader writes:

I watched the original interview. Powell is one of the toughest guys out there. He's smart, smooth, and he can intimidate with a single minute shift in body language. Watching Rachel work him was revealing. He was somewhat shocked to be pushed so hard (although obviously he was there for a reason); he was not on strong moral ground, and he knew it, and he knew we knew it; he looked very tired at times; and he was trying to tell her -- in fact he DID tell her, that it was all going to come out in time:

POWELL: "And so it is a legal issue and I think we have to be very careful and I have to be very careful because I don't want to be seen as implicating anybody or accusing anybody because I don't have the complete record on this. And that complete record I think in due course will come out."

The "complete record I think in due course will come out"--if you were Cheney, Yoo, et al., how would you be reading that?



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