By Manila Ryce
Published Wednesday, August 1st, 2007, 10:09 pm
Filed under: Videos: Political, Videos, US Politics
In a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the friendly fire death of Army Specialist Pat Tillman, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) grilled former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on whether or not the White House and Pentagon had a strategy to shape press coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Was there a Department of Defense press strategy with respect to the war?” the Ohio Democrat asked.
“If there was, it obviously wasn’t very good,” Rumsfeld quipped back.
The Rumsfeld remark drew Kucinich’s ire.
“Well you know maybe it was very good because you actually covered up the Tillman case for awhile, you covered up the Jessica Lynch case, you covered up Abu Ghraib, so something was working for you,” he said. “So something was working for you.”
Rumsfeld angrily denied any cover up “on this matter.”
h/t Raw Story via The Aristocrats
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EWWWW!!! There’s an ad for something called “Free Coulter Email” staring at me right now!!!
Back on topic: DK totally flummuxed Donald the Dissembler yesterday. A great moment.
08/2/07 at 11:50 am
Go Dennis Go! Love this guy!
08/3/07 at 5:35 pm
Yeah, because as Secretary of Defense, you know, the civilian Leader of the Armed Forces and the Pentagon’s Liason to the Commander in Chief, there’s no way or reason why the man would have any clue as to what the army is doing.
Unbe-fucking-lievable.
08/3/07 at 7:57 pm