Now what is he up to? * alters Pentagon line of succession

[CatWoman]

Is he about to "suicide" Rummy?

WASHINGTON - Who would act as President Bush's defense secretary if Pentagon chief Donald H. Rumsfeld were to resign, become disabled, die or be temporarily absent due to an overseas trip, such as on the one he began Thursday? For years the answer was, quite naturally, the deputy defense secretary.

But the answer had to change Thursday because of a simple, inconvenient fact: There is no deputy defense secretary.

There is, however, a Navy secretary.

That post is held by Gordon England, who also happens to be Bush's nominee to replace Paul Wolfowitz as deputy defense secretary. But England's nomination has been stalled for weeks due to a dispute over whether England must buy insurance on the pension he earned before joining the government.

On May 13, the day Wolfowitz left his defense job, Bush designated England to be the acting deputy secretary. England also retained his Navy job.

The presidential executive order spelling out the line of succession to act as defense secretary says no one in that line can become the acting secretary if he holds his own position in an "acting" capacity.

http://tinyurl.com/c3v55

[Cocoa]

1. can you suicide the undead?

make it look like Rummy drove a wooden stake thru his own heart?

[CatWoman]

2. LOLOLOLOLOL

"can you suicide the undead?"

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

3. What, can't the blivet find any more incompetent

pals to work for him? No sycophants waiting in the wings?

[Roland99]

4. Interesting...

With the recent unexpected "departure" from the SEC and an immediate replacement named, is this some pre-emptive action on Rummy leaving "to spend more time with family"?