Colin Powell's former chief of staff condemned the Republican Party on Friday night, telling MSNBC's Ed Schultz, "My party is full of racists."

Retired Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson made the comment in response to Mitt Romney campaign surrogate John Sununu's suggestion on Thursday that Powell's endorsement of President Barack Obama's re-election was motivated by race. Wilkerson, who served as Powell's chief of staff when the general was secretary of state during the first George W. Bush term, told Schultz that he respected Sununu "as a Republican, as a member of my party," but did not "have any respect for the integrity of the position that [Sununu] seemed to codify." When asked by Schultz what, if anything, the remark said about the attitudes of the Republican Party, Wilkerson said:

My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people -- not all of them, but most of them -- who are still basing their positions on race. Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists, and the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin, and that's despicable.

The retired colonel also said that "to say that Colin Powell would endorse President Obama because of his skin color is like saying Mother Theresa worked for profit."

Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks is releasing over 100 classified documents detailing US Department of Defense procedures for running Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca and other infamous prisons where terror suspects are detained. - The directives and manuals, which for more than a decade directed the US military’s policy for treatment of its detainees, will be released chronologically over the next month, WikiLeaks said in a statement. The first batch of the documents released is the 2002 Camp Delta – Guantánamo Bay prison – Standing Operating Procedure manuals. “This document is of significant historical importance. Guantánamo Bay has become the symbol for systematized human rights abuse in the West with good reason,” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said.

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Please do something to stop killing children and old people in the city of Bani Walid, the hometwon of the tribe of Werfalla, Libya. Massacres and war crimes are taking place right now in there. The armed tribal militias controlled by the tribe of Misurata are attacking the city of Bani Walid with rockets and heavy weapons. They don't care about the civilians in the city. Many people including children and women have already died and injured because of the missiles launched to the city of Bani Walid by the armed militias. The armed militias of the tribe of Misurata want to destroy the city of Bani Walid and kill its people as they did to the city of Tawergha and its people. They even say that in their local media a few days ago. Many evidences on Youtube show that they want to take revenge of people of Bani Walid blaming them for supporting the previous regime. Because the UN argued to stop the siege and the war on Bani Walid, they started their propaganda to pretend that they want to only arrest some wanted people. They are taking advantage of being in power as they are governing Libya now to make this appears as a legitimate operation the army is taking against some wanted people. What a stupid excuse that allows armed tribal militias to attack a city with almost 100,000 population just to arrest a few wanted people?. Libyan people went to streets almost a month ago in Benghazi and Tripoli asking for establishing the army as the armed tribal militias are the ones who have the power in Libya now. All Libyans know that those tribal militias are trying hard to get more and more power so that they can impose their agendas on the Libyan National Congress as well as the new government. We, the people of Bani Walid, want the whole world as well as the UN to work ASAP to stop the genocide and the war crimes that are taking place in Bani Walid now by the armed tribal militias controlled by the tribe of Misurata. We, the people of Bani Walid, do believe that the war on Bani Walid is because of historical tribal issues that took place in the region almost a hundred years ago. [Video][Video]