Fwd: Blogger bares Rumsfeld's post-9/11 orders

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Blogger bares Rumsfeld's post-9/11 orders

 

 

" Hours after a commercial plane struck the Pentagon on September 11 2001

the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was issuing rapid orders to his

aides to look for evidence of Iraqi involvement, according to notes taken

by one of them.

 

" 'Hard to get good case. Need to move swiftly,' the notes say. 'Near term

target needs - go massive - sweep it all up, things related and not.'

 

" The handwritten notes, with some parts blanked out, were declassified

this month in response to a request by a law student and blogger, Thad

Anderson, under the US Freedom of Information Act. Anderson has posted

them on his blog at outragedmoderates.org.

 

" The Pentagon confirmed the notes had been taken by Stephen Cambone, now

undersecretary of defence for intelligence and then a senior policy

official. "

 

Full story at:

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1716842,00.html?gusrc=rss