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...Both the Pentagon and the Vice Presidents office backed exiled Iraqi Ahmed Chalabi as a possible Iraqi leader afte the invasion. Tenet compares aides in Cheney's and Rumsfeld's office to schoolgirls in love...
...going on with Chalabi?" the president asked me at a White House meeting that spring. "Is he working for you?" [Senior CIA officer] Rob Richer, who was with me at the meeting, piped up, "No sir, I believe he is working for DOD." All eyes shifted to Don Rumsfeld. "I'll have to check what his status is," Rumsfeld said. His undersecretary for intelligence, Steve Cambone, sat there mute. "I don't think he ought to be working for us," the president dryly observed...
...known for keeping many irons in lots of fires. An aide once told me he had seen Wolfowitz on several occasions conduct multiple telephone conversations simultaneously. His job at the Pentagon was to think the big thoughts and let the others worry about the details. His Pentagon boss, Donald Rumsfeld, once explained their relationship with a modesty that was false but nonetheless telling: "Paul's an academic. I'm a Cook County politician...
...early days of a military campaign, when the gung-ho spirit and patriotism are at their peak. But it's quite another to be sending these people with established careers and lives outside the military back to Iraq in the war's fifth year. Because former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld kept a ceiling on the Army's troop strength, the National Guard and reserve forces have become a key piece of the everyday Army - rather than being held in reserve for any unexpected conflict that erupts while the active-duty force is pinned down elsewhere. Even supporters concede the Guard...
...also learned recently that almost as soon as Rumsfeld's successor, Robert Gates, assumed his new job, he started pushing to shut down Guantánamo. It was too tainted in the eyes of the world, he argued, for its verdicts to be accepted. He lost the fight, but it spoke of a shift in attitude in high places. Gates implied what many Americans have suspected for a while--that Guantánamo, too, is a lamentable case, one that does the U.S. more harm than good...