Donald H. Rumsfeld has left the Pentagon, but not the Defense Department.

[burythehatchet]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070125-121654-5838r.htm

OK This is damned infuriating :mad:

...


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 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.

...

:mad::mad:

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Okay, who smells COVER UP!?!

Surprising this is out of the Washington Times. "Sorting" and "Sifting" through top secret and classified documents?

It's a cover up!

[burythehatchet]

3. That hadn't occurred to me

Jeebus on toast! this shit is completely out of control.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Does he have shredding privilages?

I suspect that this is more CYA backward looking work than forward looking consulting.

[burythehatchet]

4. With Mr. Cambone on staff, they aren't looking to do good

I can assure you.

[Wizard777]

5. I think he'll accentuate the illegal parts with a Black Highliter. n/t

[The Count]

6. Didn't they do that with Perle too? They just move behind the curtain.

After all, the money is not in the salary, nor is the power in the job.

[burythehatchet]

7. Out of the public eye, immune from oversight

(by the way - "one sheep jumping over the bed" - love The Count)

[CrazyOrangeCat]

8. bastard.

:nuke:

[Cleita]

9. Just what you would expect from a snake, moving under a rock

for cover while you lay in wait for your prey. Time to demand some indictments and trials for war crimes.

[Botany]

10. This smells of a cover up.

Why don't they just call it "Rummy's Shredding Center?"

Didn't he have time to "sift through his papers form November until
January?

Office of Special Plans / PNAC / AIPAC / 9-11 "war games" that simulated hijacked
planes flying into buildings / Pre war intel on Iraq / The Vice President's role in
cherry picking data to make a case for a war in Iraq (WHIG White House Iraq Group)

[Rosemary2205]

11. You thought he was actually LEAVING?? I didn't.

He's one of the principles in this whole clusterfuck we call the Bush Administration. He CAN'T leave. All they can do is take him out of the sunshine and put him in a back corner where no one is looking. ((which in my humble opinion makes him even MORE dangerous))