Insider fires a broadside at Rumsfeld's office

Asia Times ^ | Aug 7, 2003 | Jim Lobe

[Eva]

I just scrolled down and looked at the picture. I guess I was right.

[geedee]

One can see rather easily that Mizzzzzzzzzzzz Kwiatkowski had a pre-planned agenda before dipping her toe into the Pentagon tides by reading some of her past articles at LewRockwell.com.

Military retirement, after all, isn't what it used to be. The "talking heads" field is rather full of conservative military mouthpieces. But an anti-whatever, female, colonel who can not only spell "Duh" but knows rather intimately its meaning might be able to find a nice little niche for herself in the civilian world.

[Kevin Curry]

She's lucky she was allowed to retire before being court-martialed.

She could be recalled to active duty and court-martialed It's entirely possible, although not probable (after all, a court-martial would merely give her a martyr's platform to rage from).

[geedee]

You Bushbots start getting your seat belts on because it is going to get a little bumpy.

Welcome aboard, newbie. We need a leftie like yourself to bless us with their presence now and then. Only proves to us how important our conservative values are.

"Bumpy ride" you said? Mmm-hmm. Plaster all the lipstick you want on Dean, newbie, but a pig's still a pig. Why should we be worrying about a bumpy ride?

Can you say George McGovern?

[LasVegasMac]

Wow, where to start. I take great offense at what this ex - (thankfully) officer did.

"Early Bird", - very familiar with this publication. I worked two defense contracts where "the boss" let it be known (I work IT) that this publication would be available for them to read.

I wish I still had access to that - very concise what's what, globally, read.

senior Pentagon Middle East specialist

Sorry. An Lt Col is nothing more than a coffee boy / girl in the world of the Pentagon. "Staff weenie" would be a better description.

until her retirement in April.

Nice hack job. At least you were smart enough to wait until you were out. Good luck in getting a civilian job in anything remotely related to what you did the service.

worked in the office of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

I worked in the OSD world for 5 years, two different contracts. Lot's of visitors from OSD top level. Never heard of the Policy office. Not that my not knowing means much, but we were extremely tangled up in the top level.

This, somehow, implies that this lowly L/C was privy to everything that Rumsfeld did or planned to do. That is really hard to believe.

According to Kwiatkowski, the same operation that allegedly cooked the intelligence also was responsible for the administration's failure to anticipate the problems that now dog the US occupation in Iraq, or, in her more colorful words, that have placed 150,000 US troops in "the world's nastiest rat's nest, without a nation-building plan, without significant international support and without an exit plan".

Somebody pissed Karen off and now she is out for revenge / money.

I may well be wrong on my take on this, but I smell a rat.

LVM

[LasVegasMac]

not worth my son's life

At least your son had the balls to serve in the military.

Now, take your troll a$$ back under the rock where you crawled out from - DU.

LVM

[Salgak]

More importantly, she was a Lt. Colonel, high in OSD. . .and failed for promotion, or otherwise would have retired.

Another Clinton leftover. . .

[geedee]

Here! Here! I agree.

A light-colonel is like the middle munchin in a seven-child family at the Pentagon.

[habs4ever]

I think Texasforever got to know him quite well.He may even be back as....a newbie troll on this thread.

[leadhead]

the same group of appointees tended to work with like-minded political appointees in other agencies,..... rather than with those agencies' career analysts or the CIA

And with good reason. The well has been poisoned by the "career" eunuchs.

[OldCorps]

When you cut through all the grandstanding and hype, this thread concerns one prevailing issue:

Political appointees do not trust the bureaucracy, and will do end runs around them to execute their vision. Having worked in the Pentagon on the army side I came to see that each service views the others as a threat to its share of the pie.

In this case, Secretary Rumsfeld views the OSD bureacracy (who has no allegience to him) as a potential source of leaks, so he outsourced via various contractors which he hired and trusted. Same goes for the intelligence and state department. He did not want to share his vision of resolving middle east politics with these institutions, so he hired outside the bureaucracy to think tanks to do the inevitable paper drills.

I'm not a big fan of Secretary Rumsfeld, being an army guy, but I do think he has every right to prevent leaks to the left wing media by hiring his own policy review people, instead of trusting a very untrustworthy bureaucracy.

[geedee]

LOL. Ahhh, but you have the name-calling down like a libber, newbie.

When one can't win the debate with facts, something you and the Mizzzzzzzzzzz Light-Colonel can't do, head for the name-calling angle.

[mountainfolk]

Do not be disrespectful of Pvt Jessica LYNCH. She was serving this country in a dangerous war while you were doing just what?

[Republic]

Someone needs to as karen three questions:

Are you a registered democrat, did you vote for billy klinton?

And two:

Were you recognized during the past few years as doing a less that up to snuff job and therefore unhappy during your last couple of years of service?

And three:

Why bring this up now and not earlier?

[Just mythoughts]

I believe that we have just been told who the liberal mole was giving all those leaks to the press, such as Franks being under investigation.

Bet this gal and Hillary are gal pals.

[squidly]

She didn't say anything I hadn't already read in a newspaper somewhere. Just a whole bunch of innuendo. As somebody noted quite truthfully, Lt. Col. in the Pentagon ain't nothing but a coffee fetcher.

[america-rules]

Yup you're 100% correct.

A Light Colonel, high in OSD. . . and failed for promotion was probably a Clinton holdover who was passed over a few times and had to retire. A fast tracker Light Colonel doesn't retire after working at the OSD. They get promoted and go back to the real world as a Wing Commander or IG for a major command.

This story really stimks of a rat !