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The long knives are starting to come out. Et tu Brute?
Taking a page from Sarah Palin, the former defense secretary strikes back after Woodward blasts his book." This morning Bob Woodward let loose with a fierce attack on Donald Rumsfeld's "Known and Unknown," the former defense secretary's 832-page exercise in covering his own behind. Based on his own reporting, Woodward pinpoints Rumsfeld's deceptions about his role in hustling us into war with Iraq. In a book filled with evasion and deception, Rumsfeld's effort to shed blame for the war is breathtaking. I recently watched him pretend to NBC's Andrea Mitchell that he was unfamiliar with the term "stove-pipe" -- as in the notorious term "stove-pipe intelligence," widely used to describe the way Rumsfeld's Pentagon funneled only the information that bolstered its case against Iraq to other decision-makers, and kept different intelligence players in the dark about what others were doing. (Rachel Maddow's staff later found that Rumsfeld had used the term himself.)
Rumsfeld's memoir has come in for plenty of criticism, but Woodward, a writer and Beltway player known for deference to the powerful, eviscerates it. He calls "Known and Unknown" "one big clean-up job, a brazen effort to shift blame to others -- including President Bush -- distort history, ignore the record or simply avoid discussing matters that cannot be airbrushed away. It is a travesty, and I think the rewrite job won't wash."
By mid-afternoon, Rumsfeld had replied: Not in an Op-Ed, or a statement to reporters -- but on his own Facebook page, à la Sarah Palin.
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http://www.salon.com/news/donald_rumsfeld/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2011/03/01/rumsfeld_attacks_woodward_on_facebook
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