From: Gene McAloon 

On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:56:14 +0200, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>> Someone here bet me it wouldn't go any higher than the general in charge of
the
>> prison and I said either Tenet or Rumsfeld would get canned for it and my
money
>> was on Tenet. You must have missed that post.
>
>Rumsfled seems to be in all kinds of trouble.  Personally OKing torture is
>a pretty good start, and then there's the Boeing business:
>
>http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/06/04/rumsfeld_restricts_boeing_d
ata_release/
>
>"Rumsfeld gave his answer in a letter dated May 26, which was released
>yesterday at the request of Knight Ridder. He said the Pentagon would
>provide only e-mails and documents ''that do not reflect internal
>deliberative matters.""

On the information available so far, that Boeing scandal can't be tied
directly or possibly even indirectly to Rumsfeld. It seems rather to have
been an Air Force/Boeing scandal.

The piece you read involves Rumsfeld only insofar as he is stonewalling any
investigation of anyone. It may be impolitic to do so under the
circumstances, but it doesn't spell trouble for Rumsfeld personally.  This
Boeing scandal is not his. It's the fly-boy's this time or, most likely,
the civilian head of the Air Force and his crew.

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