Rumsfeld's CLASSIFIED Memo

It's amazing. The leaks never seem to stop.

The New York Times has "obtained" a classified memo written by former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

What does The Times do when it receives CLASSIFIED leaked information?

Slap it on its front page, of course.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 -- Two days before he resigned as defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld submitted a classified memo to the White House that acknowledged that the Bush administration’s strategy in Iraq was not working and called for a major course correction.

“In my view it is time for a major adjustment,” wrote Mr. Rumsfeld, who has been a symbol of a dogged stay-the-course policy. “Clearly, what U.S. forces are currently doing in Iraq is not working well enough or fast enough.”

Nor did Mr. Rumsfeld seem confident that the administration would readily develop an effective alternative. To limit the political fallout from shifting course, he suggested the administration consider a campaign to lower public expectations.

...Unlike the lawyerly memo on Iraq policy submitted Nov. 8 by Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, Mr. Rumsfeld’s listed more than a dozen “illustrative options” that the defense secretary did not endorse, but suggested merited serious consideration. “Many of these options could, and in a number of cases, should be done in combination with others,” Mr. Rumsfeld advised.

With Mr. Rumsfeld’s resignation, the options no longer have the same weight. In recent weeks, some have been discarded as the Bush administration tries to adjust its military and political strategy in Iraq. But others, like increasing the number of advisers attached to Iraqi forces, live on and have also been recommended by others.

No kidding Rumsfeld's recommendations no longer have the same weight since his resignation.

He's not the defense secretary anymore.

He was replaced.

Still, The Times sees fit to get specific on the Rumsfeld memo.


The Times provides details on the memo's content.

It even offers the text of the memo on its website.

Yes, right now on its website, The Times has posted a CLASSIFIED memo.

Who is leaking CLASSIFIED information?

Why does The Times print it?

It makes me wonder.

What would our enemies do without The Times?

They don't need spies to get CLASSIFIED information. They just need the Internet and The New York Times.

I truly believe that The Times wants the United States to lose in Iraq.