Rumsfeld opens transition office in Virginia

[spindrifter]

Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, January 26, 2007

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.

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http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=43076

[ShortnFiery]

1. They're firing-up the turbo charged shredding machines. n/t

[Donnachaidh]

2. they should check the office for shredders

I don't like this, ESPECIALLY when he has *paid help* from the Pentagon? Excuse me -- the guy was FIRED? WHY are we still paying for this shit? Hello? :sarcasm:

[CrazyOrangeCat]

3. Shred it, Rummy.

Big Black Sharpies, and Shredders. All day long.



"non-paid consultant" my shiny :kick:

[tyedyeto]

4. A SecDef can keep papers to write a book or archive them?

But any other ordinary federal employee is 'shit out of luck' when considering the same options?

[C_U_L8R]

5. Classic bait n switch

Bring in the new defense secretary through the front door
Let the old defense secreatary run a PNAC war with Iran out the back door.

Someone please pass the reynolds wrap

[Nikki Stone1]

10. I think you are right on this

:kick:

[spindrifter]

6. He's probably writing speeches for DeadEye.

[AspenRose]

7. He should be 'transitioning' to a federal prison.

Or The Hague.

[cassiepriam]

8. So how much are we paying someone who got canned?

[Imagevision]

9. It is appalling the s.o.b. is still picking up check's paid for by dying US. troops...

[leftofthedial]

11. transition from DOD to prison

with any luck