Rummy says "Hey, wasn't me!"

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This is pretty disgusting but hell this is what these guys always do...Rummy explains here how it wasn't his fault.

JIM LEHRER: At these 9/11 hearings yesterday, as I reported in the News Summary, and everybody knows now the counter terror, former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke, said to the families of the 9/11 victims, "Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. I failed you." As secretary of defense, do you have any sense of failure concerning what happened on 9/11?
DONALD RUMSFELD: Well, I hate to separate myself as secretary of defense. The Department of Defense, of course, is oriented to external threats. This was a domestic airplane that was operated by people who were in the United States against a United States target, which makes it a law enforcement, historically a law enforcement issue. The Department of Defense's task is one that deals with external threats coming into the United States, and that's what the department is organized, trained and equipped to do.
Indeed, the Posse Comitatus law has kept the Department of Defense away from law enforcement and policing-type activities. We don't do the borders. We don't do the coast lines, we have other organizations of government, but certainly as a citizen, when we suffer the worst attack in our history, your heart breaks for the friends and families of the loved ones of the people that were killed, and everybody involved in any position of responsibility for security has to search their soul and say what else might have been done, and is there anything.
And even more important for all of us is not only what might have been done then, which is what the commission is looking at, but what ought we to be doing today so that six months from now when another attack is attempted, and it will be attempted, we know that, I mean, terrorists can attack any time, any place, using any technique, and free people are vulnerable to those kinds of asymmetric attacks. So we have to be asking ourselves every day what can we do? How can we connect the dots before the fact without the benefit of those hearings?

Donald Rumsfeld
NewsHour Interview
March 25, 2004

JIM LEHRER: At these 9/11 hearings yesterday, as I reported in the News Summary, and everybody knows now the counter terror, former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke, said to the families of the 9/11 victims, "Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. I failed you." As secretary of defense, do you have any sense of failure concerning what happened on 9/11?
DONALD RUMSFELD: Well, I hate to separate myself as secretary of defense. The Department of Defense, of course, is oriented to external threats. This was a domestic airplane that was operated by people who were in the United States against a United States target, which makes it a law enforcement, historically a law enforcement issue. The Department of Defense's task is one that deals with external threats coming into the United States, and that's what the department is organized, trained and equipped to do.
Indeed, the Posse Comitatus law has kept the Department of Defense away from law enforcement and policing-type activities. We don't do the borders. We don't do the coast lines, we have other organizations of government, but certainly as a citizen, when we suffer the worst attack in our history, your heart breaks for the friends and families of the loved ones of the people that were killed, and everybody involved in any position of responsibility for security has to search their soul and say what else might have been done, and is there anything.
And even more important for all of us is not only what might have been done then, which is what the commission is looking at, but what ought we to be doing today so that six months from now when another attack is attempted, and it will be attempted, we know that, I mean, terrorists can attack any time, any place, using any technique, and free people are vulnerable to those kinds of asymmetric attacks. So we have to be asking ourselves every day what can we do? How can we connect the dots before the fact without the benefit of those hearings?

Donald Rumsfeld
NewsHour Interview
March 25, 2004

–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'

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This is pretty disgusting but hell this is what these guys always do...Rummy explains here how it wasn't his fault.

JIM LEHRER: At these 9/11 hearings yesterday, as I reported in the News Summary, and everybody knows now the counter terror, former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke, said to the families of the 9/11 victims, "Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. I failed you." As secretary of defense, do you have any sense of failure concerning what happened on 9/11?
DONALD RUMSFELD: Well, I hate to separate myself as secretary of defense. The Department of Defense, of course, is oriented to external threats. This was a domestic airplane that was operated by people who were in the United States against a United States target, which makes it a law enforcement, historically a law enforcement issue. The Department of Defense's task is one that deals with external threats coming into the United States, and that's what the department is organized, trained and equipped to do.
Indeed, the Posse Comitatus law has kept the Department of Defense away from law enforcement and policing-type activities. We don't do the borders. We don't do the coast lines, we have other organizations of government, but certainly as a citizen, when we suffer the worst attack in our history, your heart breaks for the friends and families of the loved ones of the people that were killed, and everybody involved in any position of responsibility for security has to search their soul and say what else might have been done, and is there anything.
And even more important for all of us is not only what might have been done then, which is what the commission is looking at, but what ought we to be doing today so that six months from now when another attack is attempted, and it will be attempted, we know that, I mean, terrorists can attack any time, any place, using any technique, and free people are vulnerable to those kinds of asymmetric attacks. So we have to be asking ourselves every day what can we do? How can we connect the dots before the fact without the benefit of those hearings?

Donald Rumsfeld
NewsHour Interview
March 25, 2004

JIM LEHRER: At these 9/11 hearings yesterday, as I reported in the News Summary, and everybody knows now the counter terror, former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke, said to the families of the 9/11 victims, "Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. I failed you." As secretary of defense, do you have any sense of failure concerning what happened on 9/11?
DONALD RUMSFELD: Well, I hate to separate myself as secretary of defense. The Department of Defense, of course, is oriented to external threats. This was a domestic airplane that was operated by people who were in the United States against a United States target, which makes it a law enforcement, historically a law enforcement issue. The Department of Defense's task is one that deals with external threats coming into the United States, and that's what the department is organized, trained and equipped to do.
Indeed, the Posse Comitatus law has kept the Department of Defense away from law enforcement and policing-type activities. We don't do the borders. We don't do the coast lines, we have other organizations of government, but certainly as a citizen, when we suffer the worst attack in our history, your heart breaks for the friends and families of the loved ones of the people that were killed, and everybody involved in any position of responsibility for security has to search their soul and say what else might have been done, and is there anything.
And even more important for all of us is not only what might have been done then, which is what the commission is looking at, but what ought we to be doing today so that six months from now when another attack is attempted, and it will be attempted, we know that, I mean, terrorists can attack any time, any place, using any technique, and free people are vulnerable to those kinds of asymmetric attacks. So we have to be asking ourselves every day what can we do? How can we connect the dots before the fact without the benefit of those hearings?

Donald Rumsfeld
NewsHour Interview
March 25, 2004

–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'

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Rummy says "Hey, wasn't me!" – Reg on March 26th, 2004