Someone used to keep them on a leash

[Bucky]

He requested the interview stay off the record until he was dead, which is an odd request if you think about who he's trying to protect, but still, Jerry hit the nail on the head when he analyzed the situation in Iraq.
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"Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction," Ford said. "And now, I've never publicly said I thought they made a mistake, but I felt very strongly it was an error in how they should justify what they were going to do."