Don't forget: Rumsfeld still has a desk at the Department of Defense, with 7 staffers

[seafan]

Rumsfeld's transition raises questions

By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

January 25, 2007

Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has left the Pentagon, but not the Defense Department.
On Jan. 4, Mr. Rumsfeld opened a government-provided transition office in Arlington and has seven Pentagon-paid staffers working for him, a Pentagon official said.


The Pentagon lists Mr. Rumsfeld as a "nonpaid consultant," a status he needs in order to review secret and top-secret documents, the official said.
Mr. 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 said 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. 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 Mr. Rumsfeld resigned Nov. 8 to when he left the building Dec. 18.
The Pentagon official, who asked not to be named, said Mr. Rumsfeld served nearly six years as secretary, more than any other defense chief but one, meaning he accumulated an above-average pile of paper.

What's more, Mr. Rumsfeld managed the bureaucracy via "snowflakes," his typed directives on white paper that fell all over the Pentagon by the hundreds.

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[proud patriot]

1. ummmmmmmmmm he needs to get the F out

IMHO :grr:

[Kagemusha]

2. And your point is?

You're not making any assertion here that is either news, nor suggesting that Rumsfeld has a smidgeon more power at the Pentagon than the article, quoted without comment, raises.

So your point is...?

[seafan]

4. Apparently, this IS news to Randi Rhodes and Ed Schultz today.

Both expressed bewilderment as they replayed the same clip repeatedly of what Pelosi said as she wondered why Rumsfeld is still lurking at DOD.

To answer your question, my point is to inform. If this is old news for you, I salute you for discovering the information elsewhere in your quest for the truth.

[Kagemusha]

5. Well, yeah, it was posted here weeks ago now

I guess the news is, yes, and the jerk's STILL there. Presumably shuffling his own papers. Who really knows though.

[DURHAM D]

3. During an interview today Pelosi acknowledged that

the non-story about the airplane was being driven by the Pentagon because she has been critical of the war and the Pentagon. During that interview she wondered why Rumsfeld still has a desk at the Pentagon.

In the interview she very nicely called it out for what it is - sexism.

[partylessinOhio]

6. Did Pelosi mention where Jane Harman is?