20061203 Rumsfeld memo leaked by New York Times

Rumsfeld memo leaked

December 3, 2006

UPDATE: Fellow Maryland Blogger Alliance member, The Baltimore Reporter also weighs-in: Rumsfeld’s Memo of Options for Iraq War

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006, The New York Times published a leaked copy of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s November 6th, 2006 memo to the White House which delineated some ideas for an adjustment in the approach to the war in Iraq.

MICHAEL R. GORDON and DAVID S. CLOUD wrote “Rumsfeld Memo Proposed ‘Major Adjustment’ in Iraq.”

I guess at this point in time, I have not much to say about the constant leaks of classified materials by the New York Times, which only continue to endanger the lives of you and me and our men and women in uniform.

The leak of the memo is as much a puzzle as the memo itself.

Meanwhile, you may find Michelle Malkin’s remarks of interest. I could not find a post on the Rumsfeld memo on the Daily Kos or MediaMatters…

Perhaps we will have to wait to hear from Katie Couric on Monday before we are really aware as to what we all think about this latest breach of national security and its ramifications…

I did write about the Secretary of Defense in November 8, 2006 my Tentacle column on the day his resignation was announced. As fate would have it, I wrote, “Rumsfeld must stay:” “Just in time for the mid-term elections, the Military Times Media Group, which publishes the Army Times, Marine Times, Air Force Times and Navy Times, ran an editorial last weekend which pronounces: "Rumsfeld must go."”

Oh my. Well, ahem, moving on here…

Previous Tentacle columns on the New York Times include:

December 28, 2005, Operation Mata Hari , Kevin E. Dayhoff
In the war against terrorism, folks, whose only goal is to promote themselves in total disregard for our safety, recently launched “Operation Mata Hari.”

November 2, 2005, Gray Ladies Down , Kevin E. Dayhoff
American newspapers are in deep trouble. I have mixed feelings about this. For many of us who have hit the half-century mark, we remember the days when the bulk of our news was delivered by several newspapers in a single day. This gave us the news from many different points of view.

The New York Times December 3rd, 2006 article begins:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 — Two days before he resigned as defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld submitted a classified memo to the White House that acknowledged that the Bush administration’s strategy in Iraq was not working and called for a major course correction.

“In my view it is time for a major adjustment,” wrote Mr. Rumsfeld, who has been a symbol of a dogged stay-the-course policy. “Clearly, what U.S. forces are currently doing in Iraq is not working well enough or fast enough.”

Read the rest here.

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