Rumsfeld's transition raises questions (has left the Pentagon, but not the DOD)

[sabra]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070125-121654-5838r.htm

Rumsfeld's transition raises questions
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has left the Pentagon, but not the Defense Department.
On Jan. 4, Mr. Rumsfeld opened a government-provided transition office in Arlington and has seven Pentagon-paid staffers working for him, a Pentagon official said.

The Pentagon lists Mr. Rumsfeld as a "nonpaid consultant," a status he needs in order to review secret and top-secret documents, the official said.

Mr. Rumsfeld and his aides, who include close adviser Stephen Cambone, are sifting through the thousands of pages of documents generated during his tenure.
The Pentagon official said former secretaries are entitled to a transition office to sort papers, some of which can be taken with them for a library, for archives or to write a book.

The transition office has raised some eyebrows inside the Pentagon. Some question the size of the staff, which includes two military officers and two enlisted men. They also ask why the sorting could not have been done from the time Mr. Rumsfeld resigned Nov. 8 to when he left the building Dec. 18.

[catgirl]

1. He needs the time to destroy some papers...N/T

[habitual]

2. well doesn't this sound very suspect?

they are now gonna let this guy have free reign to destroy any evidence against himself.... it was prolly part of the arrangement they made with him, 'you take the fall and you can have 6 months of access to all docs so you can come out squeeky clean"

[Dover]

They did the same thing with Perle when he became a hot potato.

They just rotate them around....it's a revolving door and a deep team of corporate reps to step in as needed.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Dan?

[Dover]

7. Richard Perle, PNACer, Ex-Chairman of the Defense Policy Advirsory Bd. under Dubya

Richard Norman Perle, (born September 16, 1941 in New York City), is an American political advisor and lobbyist who worked for the Reagan administration as an assistant Secretary of Defense and worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Board from 2001 to 2003 under the Bush Administration.

He is a member of several conservative think-tanks, such as Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the Hudson Institute, and (as a resident fellow) the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He is also a Patron of the Henry Jackson Society. Perle has written extensively on a number of issues; his cited research interests including defense, national security and the Middle East...etc.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Perle

[Dover]

3. ,,dupe

[tanyev]

4. Of course, of course, of course.

It was all for show.


:banghead::banghead:

[rodeodance]

5. growllllllll---tax money PAID for this!!

[PuraVidaDreamin]

8. How convenient... revisionist history paid for with my money

IMPEACH BUSH/CHENEY

INDICT and IMPRISON the WAR CRIMINALS!

[ShortnFiery]

9. Shredding Away! n/t

[donkeyotay]

10. These mofo's never go away. After he's through tidying up

he'll turn up in the don't-think tanks, and the councils of wise guys, and, of course, the lobbying ops and no-bid contracts. What a cesspool.

[UnyieldingHierophant]

11. Rummy Still Hanging Around D.O.D

Rummy Still Hanging Around D.O.D.

"Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has left the Pentagon, but not the Defense Department," the Washington Times reports. "On Jan. 4, Mr. Rumsfeld opened a government-provided transition office in Arlington and has seven Pentagon-paid staffers working for him, a Pentagon official said."

The Pentagon lists Mr. Rumsfeld as a "nonpaid consultant," a status he needs in order to review secret and top-secret documents, the official said.

Mr. Rumsfeld and his aides, who include close adviser Stephen Cambone, are sifting through the thousands of pages of documents generated during his tenure.

The Pentagon official said former secretaries are entitled to a transition office to sort papers, some of which can be taken with them for a library, for archives or to write a book.

The transition office has raised some eyebrows inside the Pentagon. Some question the size of the staff, which includes two military officers and two enlisted men.

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070125-121654-5838r.htm

[Taverner]

12. Moonie Times usually can't be trusted but I remember hearing that Nixon

the next day after the famous helicopter resignation...still called all of his staff daily for a briefing. He did this for several months until it finally sunk in.

He was no longer master of the universe.

[The Wielding Truth]

13. If we didn't know rummy this would seem innocent.

[tabasco]

14. What a sense of entitlement they have!

Get off the public tit Rummy ! Gotta cash in till the very end, huh?

I say you belong in a jail cell Rumsfeld !