Posted on 11/02/2005 8:34:30 PM PST by vadkins
SEC. RUMSFELD: Well, they do and have talked about it. They've been up and testified before congressional committees and briefed people on a classified basis. What's been in the press is that some people feel that everything they say should be on an unclassified basis and the judgment apparently was made by the people involved that that would be unhelpful to our country. But in terms of talking to people about it, they've done it extensively.
The interesting thing about that is it's such an interesting story, of course it's something that occurred well before this Administration came in, back in the '90s as I understand it, and it's an interesting story.
The problem we've had is that our folks have spent a large amount of time trying to go in and look at all the records and see what they could find and haven't been able to validate it, which doesn't mean something wasn't so. It just means they've not been able to validate it.
The Department of Defense has provided literally volumes of information to multiple committees up there and if anyone else has any insights we're happy to open it up and go look somewhere else. But at some point if you can't find something, you can't find it.
(Excerpt) Read more at dod.mil ...
Sounds like he thinks he has better things to do with his time ... like maybe win a war???
The administration has no higher priority than defeating international terrorism and its enablers. Sadly, some of its greatest enablers are espionage agents right here in our country masquerading as opposition party politicians and staffers. I would like to hear Rumsfeld and the president publicly acknowledge this fact, stop "smokescreening" the issue and go after these people.
Thank you. I usually listen to Lee Rogers and missed this interview.
Ping
Me to! By the way, Lee Rodgers is spelled with a "d" in Rogers. Your tagline caused me to spell check yoo!!! (grin)
"... the judgment apparently was made by the people involved that that would be unhelpful to our country ..."
My opinion: IT WOULD BE UNHELPFUL TO HILLARY! She can't afford to have her attorney general (Gorelick) involved in this scandal. So, "the people involved" are the Clinton leftover who are trying to keep this thing underwraps.
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