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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 10:31 PM
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Why The Hell Is Rumsfeld Still In The Pentagon? Why Is He Considered A "Nonpaid Consultant"?
Edited on Thu Feb-01-07 10:32 PM by orleans
i just heard malloy talking about this--something i missed, apparently. so i googled:

"On Jan. 4, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld opened a government-provided transition office in Arlington and has seven Pentagon-paid staffers working for him, a Pentagon official told The Washington Times.

"The Pentagon lists Rumsfeld as a “nonpaid consultant,” a status he needs in order to review secret and top-secret documents, the paper reported the official as saying.

"In its Thursday editions, the Times reported that 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 told the paper that 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, the Times wrote. 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 Rumsfeld resigned Nov. 8 to when he left the building Dec. 18."

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=42042&archive=true

WTF?

and since he's still in the pentagon--how much input is he giving on this troop "augmentation"? who's plan was it to send in more troops? since fuckhead isn't listening to the generals, is he listening to rummy?
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 10:36 PM
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1. Transition office, my ass. There will be a March on the Pentagon in March.
If he's not gone by then, bring pitchforks.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 10:37 PM
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2. "Nonpaid Consultant"?
Is that anything like an "unindicted co-conspirator"?
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twylatharp Donating Member (81 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 10:43 PM
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3. "a status he needs in order to review secret and top-secret documents"
another day another outrage.....actually that's about the fifth I've heard today.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 10:52 PM
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4. "another day another outrage" no shit.
and welcome to du! thanks for coming.
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twylatharp Donating Member (81 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:27 PM
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8. gracias.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 10:55 PM
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5. There need his expertise
Not, of course, on fighting in Iraq.

But Rumsfeld knows how to lie with a straight face. That's a valued skill in the Bush regime.
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bonito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 10:57 PM
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6. One word
Neocon
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Little Wing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:00 PM
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7. It just wasn't The Pentagon without Rummy's "Daily Gee-Willikers Report"
:rofl:
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:33 PM
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9. It's outrageous.
They give the treasonous, rat bastard a lavish "send-off" and he's STILL there? Get the war criminal OUT of the Pentagon. NOW!
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:36 PM
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10. "Office of Special Plans" or whatever they call it now. nt
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doc03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:38 PM
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11. Because he was the best Secretary of Defense in history?
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justiceischeap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:42 PM
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12. Because this Administration doesn't really fire its Cronies
It just hides them as consultants until the public notices. How long was Brownie on the payroll as a "consultant" until the Press started pounding the drums about it?
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-01-07 11:51 PM
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13. Well who the hell did you think was directing the Air Strikes in Sudan?!?
Cheney? (Well yeah, him too)

They don't target themselves you know.

Btw, remember the Air-strikes on Lebanon last summer? Was I the only one to notice that Rummy made a "surprise visit" to Iraq just before they started, and then disappeared for the entire time the Air-strikes were going on, then a few days after they were over, he shows up again in this country.

Check the LBN or one of the major News websites if you don't believe me. Oh and Cheney was nowhere to be found either, for that entire month too.
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