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...former Department of Defense Official Doug Feith, who had created an office in the Pentagon to explore the links between al-Qaeda and Iraq in 2002, comparing it to someone putting together a dossier on their child and including only negative information. He admitted he and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had some disagreements about the authority of the new national intelligence director. And in discussing the intelligence failures on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, his comments seemed to implicitly criticize the Bush administration's behavior before the war. He said the "customers" of intelligence - meaning Congress and administration - needed...
...lost one of the most fundamental possessions a human being has: freedom. After I left, I realized I also lost something else: my faith. Carlos Valladares, M.D. Linkoping, Sweden A General Disagreement I don't care how many generals have joined Lieut. General Greg Newbold in criticizing Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. Iraq's actions were not "peripheral to the real threat," as Newbold claims. Saddam Hussein wanted to be the venture capitalist of Islamic extremism and fuel its fire. Iraq today may be a down-and-dirty training ground for terrorists, but Saddam's Iraq was their five-star hotel...
Some lawmakers, like Goss's friends House Speaker Dennis Hastert and fellow Republican Peter Hoekstra, who heads the House Intelligence Committee, say they worry about putting a military man in charge of the CIA when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been expanding an empire that already absorbs about 80% of the U.S. intelligence budget. In that view, the CIA needs to remain an independent counterweight to the Pentagon, another set of eyes, ears and instincts, not become a subsidiary of it. But Hayden has hardly been acting like a covert Rumsfeld agent. In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services...
...Rumsfeld, who was not pleased, called Hayden into his office to chew him out. Hayden argued that his sworn duty as a general was to give his honest opinion when asked. So among CIA insiders, his appointment to head the largest civilian intelligence agency hardly represents a Rumsfeld coup. During private meetings on the Hill in advance of confirmation hearings scheduled to begin this week, Hayden said he would consider retiring from the uniformed military as part of assuming the CIA job. It may be that, in spirit at least, he already...
...Brass-Hat Rebellion Your story on the growing number of retired generals calling for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to resign [April 24] showed that our military's patriotism, diligence and other commendable character traits are of little value to the nation when our civilian leaders have poor judgment. Lawrence H. Gordon Honolulu...