Tidbit:

"Then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, whose military assistant was on the short list of people copied on the JCS report, is one of Jeb Bush’s foreign policy experts. Other supporters of the war, though they do not appear to have been aware of the JCS report, are involved in the various advisory roles in the 2016 campaign. John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is advising Ted Cruz; and Elliott Abrams and William Kristol are supporting Marco Rubio, whom Reuters reported is also briefed regularly by former Cheney adviser Eric Edelman."

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice - the whole criminal gang.

AND.....

Rather than heed the JCS’ early warning — as well as similar doubts expressed by some CIA, State Department and Defense Intelligence Agency officers — and seek more reliable intelligence, Rumsfeld and Cheney turned to a parallel intelligence apparatus they created that relied largely on information from Iraqi defectors and a network of exiles led by the late Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress.

On Sunday, September 8, 2002 — three days after Shaffer reported that evidence on Iraq’s nuclear program was sparse — the Times’ Judith Miller and Michael Gordon led the newspaper with a report with the headline, “US Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts.”

“Mr. Hussein’s dogged insistence on pursuing his nuclear ambitions, along with what defectors described in interviews as Iraq’s push to improve and expand Baghdad’s chemical and biological arsenals, have brought Iraq and the United States to the brink of war,” the Times wrote. The piece repeatedly cited anonymous senior Bush administration officials and Iraqi defectors.

Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice cited the Times story on talk shows that Sunday morning. Rice repeated a sentiment, credited in the Times story that “the first sign of a ‘smoking gun’ … may be a mushroom cloud.”

There is an international call for War Crimes investigations against members of the Bush43 Administration. I've long thought that one component of that administrations drive for war against Iraq was to throw their dupe, Dubya, under the bus should things go askew.

But it's not unlikely that individuals in that administration would have laid the groundwork for their own "Get out of War Crimes Jail" cards as well. Perhaps this is Rumsfelds. He could claim to have sent that to the White House. Had he done so, Cheny would have chewed him out for it, as Cheny was involved big time with generating, by hook and crook, documents that appeared to be intelligence supporting the war. (See Department of Special Plans).

If Rumsfeld could claim that, with evidence, he could claim he tried to head things off, but was over-ridden.

My question is: Why is this coming to light now? Any such thing would be locked away tight, only to be brought out if needed. It's not a question of what Rumsfeld knew back then. It's a question of what he knows NOW?