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.”
Some Colorado officials are seeking to distance themselves from the state’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to relocate U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colo., to Huntsville, Ala.—signaling a decreased appetite for extending the yearslong political debate that has dogged the combatant command’s future plans.
