Tuesday’s dump of emails hacked from Colin Powell’s inbox reveal the former secretary of state disapproved of a range of figures in the media, military and politics. All quotes appear exactly as written.

• Powell didn’t like a book that former Vice President Dick Cheney co-authored with his daughter, Liz. “They are idiots and spent force peddling a book that ain’t going nowhere,” Powell wrote in an email about the Cheneys’ 2015 book, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America.

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