Rumsfeld Desperate to Rewrite History

Rumsfeld is at it again. Actually, George W. Bush, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Condi Rice and Scooter Libby are all desperately trying to rewrite history but let's stick with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld who knew where all the WMDs were in March 2003 but can't remember saying so.

Here's a post by Kevin Drum of The Washington Monthly giving another example of Rumsfeld's self-serving memory:

In a purely artistic sense, you almost have to admire the guy: Why, he was just an innocent victim of an intelligence effort gone awry! You'd almost think he wasn't the guy who instructed his aides to "judge whether good enough hit S.H" a mere five hours after the Pentagon was hit on 9/11. Or that he wasn't the guy who created the Office of Special Plans inside the Pentagon because "Rumsfeld and his colleagues believed that the C.I.A. was unable to perceive the reality of the situation in Iraq."

Nope, he was just an innocent bystander. And by golly, the CIA's failures give him pause. I'll just bet they do.

See the original post. Kevin Drum posts a document that someone obtained from the Department of Defense via the Freedom of Information Act; the document is dated at 2:40PM, just hours after the 9/11 attack. The idea that the CIA somehow, on its own, misinformed the president about WMDs and an al Qaida connection is a Bush Administration fiction designed to protect Bush and his inner circle. I suspect Rumsfeld also has the added motivation of bringing American intelligience operations under his exclusive control and he is using the Porter Goss resignation to discredit the CIA and advance his own agenda.