‘Emily, get out of the way.’

Lisa Rein’s weblog has links to the mirrors of streams of Colin Powell’s Meet the Press appearance yesterday in which he rebukes his own press aide for trying to take him off the air early, just as Tim Russert is about to ask a candid question about the Nigerian yellowcake uranium confabulation that was used as evidence of our need to invade Iraq. Powell orders the camera back on and the interview resumed, and acknowledges that the uranium story was deliberately misleading. Is this Powell’s swansong? [via boing boing]