"I find it strange the laws apply to me" - rummy said [View All]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/19/AR2006061901090.html


The topic was the largest defense procurement scandal in recent decades, and the two investigators for the Pentagon's inspector general in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's office on April 1, 2005, asked the secretary to raise his hand and swear to tell the truth.

Rumsfeld agreed but complained. "I find it strange," he said to the investigators, on the grounds that as a government official "the laws apply to me" anyway.

It was a bumpy start to an odd interview, as Rumsfeld cited poor memory, loose office procedures, and a general distraction with "the wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan to explain why he was unsure how his department came to nearly squander $30 billion leasing several hundred new tanker aircraft that its own experts had decided were not needed.

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"DOD is simply not positioned to deliver high-quality products in a timely and cost-effective fashion," the comptroller general of the United States, David M. Walker, said in a little-noticed April 5 critique. The Pentagon, he said, has "a long-standing track record of over-promising and un-delivering with virtual impunity."
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would turning the Pentagon into an apartment bldg. stop "virtual impunity"?

or perhaps Sen. and Reps that are able to say NO to rummy and the pentagon would stop "virtual impunity"?

or perhaps stuffing "virtual impunity" down rummy and the brass' throats might stop "virtual impunity"?

sigh

but WAIT! "virtual impunity" IS A MONEY MAKER, it won't be stopped.