Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims he is “perfectly honest” when he says, “I don’t know what she was talking about.” Rumsfeld was responding to a question from Scott Hennen with WDAY radio in Fargo, N.D., who wanted to know if Rumsfeld agreed with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, who said the US had made thousands of tactical errors in Iraq. He went on to explain, “Commanders have to constantly make tactical adjustments,” because the “enemy’s got a brain” and “constantly adjusts.”
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
