Opinion | Rumsfeld seized the wheel of power — and steered us terribly into war
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president bush came to regard as virtually harmless and marginal will likely inspire attempts at revenge by his followers. the state department sent out a worldwide travel alert warning americans abroad of possible reprisals and american embassies are at a heightened state of alert until august 1. earlier today hillary clinton said that the battle against al qaeda continues. even as we mark this milestone, we should not forget that the battle to stop al qaeda and its syndicate of terror will not end with the death of bin laden. indeed, we must take this opportunity to renew our resolve and redouble our efforts. cia director leon pinetta echoed that message in an email to agency employees. though bin laden is dead al qaeda is not. the terrorists almost certainly
what i would point to especially is the cooperation you saw here between the military and the cia. white house officials were very clear that this was a cia commanded operation using s.e.a.l. team six, the special operations group. so a very impressive amount of coordination there. but again it s a contrast to the friction you saw frequently between the rumsfeld pentagon, powell state department in the cia under tenant back then. when you look at your work and bob woodward s work, there seems to be a personal quality to that tension. it doesn t seem to be institutional and traditional. it does seem to be rumsfeld personality-based and others. is that more typical that what we seem to be seeing in the obama administration what is a group of people who seem to get along and respect each other? i think so. you always see institutional frictions, but i think they got very personal in the bush administration.
cia. white house officials were very clear that this was a cia commanded operation using s.e.a.l. team six, the special op rations group. so a very impressive amount of coordination there. but again it s a contrast to the friction you saw frequently between the rumsfeld pentagon, powell state department in the cia under tennent back then. when you look at your work and bob woodward s work, there seems to be a personal quality to that tension. it doesn t seem to be institutional and traditional. it does seem to be rumsfeld personality-based and others. is that more typical that what we seem to be seeing in the obama administration what is a group of people who seem to get along and respect each other? i think so. you always see institutional frictions, but i think they got very personal in the bush administration. there s a calmness about this
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