A front-page Washington Post article today on Bob Woodward's new book
Plan of Attack contains this tidbit:
Powell felt Cheney and his allies -- his chief aide, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz and undersecretary of defense for policy Douglas Feith and what Powell called Feith's "Gestapo" office [apparently the OSP]-- had established what amounted to a separate government.
The vice president, for his part, believed Powell was mainly concerned with his own popularity and told friends at a private dinner he hosted a year ago to celebrate the outcome of the war that Powell was a problem and "always had major reservations about what we were trying to do."
This is about as much public confirmation as we are going to see that Bush (reported to be someone who doesn't even read, and whose reading may be only at about the 8th grade level) isn't really running the show. No wonder he seems so comotose in public - or worse.