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...didn't want to support the President's position, I wouldn't be in the Administration." DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Defense Secretary, responding to a New York Times editorial that accused him of lobbying against a controversial intelligence-reform bill backed by President George W. Bush...
...Pentagon. That may not be a bad idea, either, but it feeds a fear among some intelligence professionals that with the CIA in tatters, power may shift, subtly, toward the Secretary of Defense. "The militarization of intelligence is a real worry," an intelligence expert told me-and Donald Rumsfeld's intense and, according to several sources, continuing covert opposition to the 9/11 intel recommendations only reinforces those fears...
...Secretary of Defense has a dreadful track record when it comes to intelligence. In Bush's first term, Rumsfeld set up an Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon to challenge the CIA's cautious analysis of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction by touting the incendiary garbage provided by Iraqi exiles. That is, I suppose, a version of intelligence reform: a system in which fantasies are produced to support the President's policy preferences. But it is not the version proposed by the 9/11 commission-and it is time for Bush to make clear whether he supports...
...brought down the Soviet empire without a shot being fired. Here are some ideas on how to reunite America's strength with trust and respect. Let's start with the easy stuff. Perhaps 50% of the trouble with American foreign policy during the first term was due to "Rumsfeldism," the penchant for gratuitously riling allies and rivals with contempt or indifference. Like individuals, governments hate to be dissed; treat them with respect, and they will not reflexively refuse what you want them to do. The French have a phrase for it: It's the tone that makes the music. Those...
...some genuine intelligence reforms he might want to turn his attention to the Pentagon, which controls eighty percent of the nation’s $40 billion intelligence budget. The 9/11 Commission Report recommended that Congress create a National Director of Intelligence (NDI), and empower the position with budgetary authority. Rumsfeld, however, isn’t eager to cede any power to a new NDI. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee are currently deadlocked with their Senate counterparts on this issue. A bi-partisan Senate bill would strip Rumsfeld of some of his budgetary powers and transfer them...