Tanker Inquiry Finds Rumsfeld's Attention Was Elsewhere

Either Rummy is senile or a liar; maybe a senile old crook.

Tanker Inquiry Finds Rumsfeld's Attention Was Elsewhere:


"The topic was the largest defense procurement scandal in recent decades, and the two investigators for the Pentagon's inspector general in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's office on April 1, 2005, asked the secretary to raise his hand and swear to tell the truth.

Rumsfeld agreed but complained. 'I find it strange,' he said to the investigators, on the grounds that as a government official 'the laws apply to me' anyway.

It was a bumpy start to an odd interview, as Rumsfeld cited poor memory, loose office procedures, and a general distraction with 'the wars' in Iraq and Afghanistan to explain why he was so unsure how his department came to squander $30 billion leasing several new tanker aircraft that its own experts had decided were ot needed.