This is suspect in my mind.
They've already decided to close Reed because it's a rat-trap. It was a rat-trap every time I visited it since the early 70's. It always looked like hell.
I'm afraid this new secdef is overly sensitive to the media.
Rummie would've told them to take a hike...that they already knew it was junk, that it was junk when they'd inherited it, and that it'd been junk since LBJ.
Well said.