NOW with David Brancaccio

51 Artificial Intelligence? How could the evidence used to make the care for war with Iraq have been so wrong? Meet the administration insider who helped craft former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s landmark speech to the United Nations. In an exclusive NOW on PBS report, Lawrence Wilkerson, Powell’s former chief-of-staff, claims he unwittingly participated in a “hoax.” NOW reports on the serious doubts that existed about the key evidence being used by the American government at the very time Powell’s speech was being planned and delivered. “I recall vividly the Secretary of State walking into my office,” Wilkerson told NOW. “And he said, looking out the window, just musing, ‘I wonder what we’ll do if we put half a million troops on the ground in Iraq…and don’t find a single weapon of mass destruction?'” (First aired February 3, 2006)