Seems on 09/12/01 Rummie was very concerned

[DoYouEverWonder]

about making sure people didn't leak classified information.

Doesn't this seem to be an odd thing to fixate on in your first public statement the day after the worst attack in US history?

Rummie briefly expresses condolences and thanks and then launches into this little tirade. Maybe Rummie had a lot to hide?

September 12, 2001

DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld

<snip>

Finally, I'd like to say a word or two to the men and women in the defense establishment, most of whom deal with classified information. Since the end of the Cold War, there's been a relaxation of tension, and the -- it's had a lot of effects. It's led to proliferation. It's led to the movement towards asymmetrical threats, as opposed to more conventional threats.

One of the other effects has been it has had an effect on how people handle classified information. And it seems to me that it's important to underline that when people deal with intelligence information and make it available to people who are not cleared for that classified information, the effect is to reduce the chances that the United States government has to track down and deal with the people who have perpetrated the attacks on the United States and killed so many Americans.

Second, when classified information dealing with operations is provided to people who are not cleared for that classified information, the inevitable effect is that the lives of men and women in uniform are put at risk because they are the ones who will be carrying out those prospective operations.

And I -- this is a message really for all the men and women in the United States government who have access to classified information. It seems to me that when they see or learn of someone who is handling classified information in a way that is going to put the lives of the men and women in uniform at risk, they ought to register exactly what kind of a person that is; it's a person who's willing to violate federal criminal statutes, and willing to frustrate our efforts to track down and deal with terrorists, and willing to reveal information that could cause the lives of men and women in uniform.

http://www.dod.gov/transcripts/2001/t09122001_t0912sd.html

[mikelewis]

1. Great Rummie quote...

"And I -- this is a message really for all the men and women in the United States government who have access to classified information. It seems to me that when they see or learn of someone who is handling classified information in a way that is going to put the lives of the men and women in uniform at risk, they ought to register exactly what kind of a person that is; it's a person who's willing to violate federal criminal statutes, and willing to frustrate our efforts to track down and deal with terrorists, and willing to reveal information that could cause the lives of men and women in uniform."

Who'd have though just a few years later, he'd be a part of the pack to out a NOC agent. How do you spell hypocrite?

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. You noticed

He accuses and intimidates people for the very crimes he plans to commit himself.

[Ezlivin]

3. And two days earlier he announced the Pentagon had lost track of $2.3T

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

http://benfrank.net/patriots/news/national/pentagon_missing_trillions

[catnhatnh]

4. Therefore if you know anything....

....about what REALLY happened yesterday.....