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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] It appears there is more to the story. It seems that Mr. Rumsfeld was not being totally honest at the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8575-2004May7?language=printer">Senate Armed Services Committee hearing</a> as he tried to deflect responsibility from Mr. Bush by indicating that he had not "elevate a matter" of prisoner abuse to the "to the highest levels". [QUOTE]Let me be clear: I failed to recognize how important it was to elevate a matter of such gravity to the highest levels, including the president and the members of Congress.[/QUOTE]Was he saying Mr. Bush just didn't know? That Mr. Bush wasn't in the loop. If so, Mr. Rumsfeld is contradicted by Colin Powell. [QUOTE]Powell said that he, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld kept Bush "fully informed of the concerns that were being expressed, not in specific details, but in general terms." Mark Matthews, [URL=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.powell12may12,0,2804533.story?coll=bal-news-nation]Baltimore Sun[/URL][/QUOTE]Which brought about a response from Fred Kaplan at [URL=http://slate.msn.com/id/2100549/]Slate[/URL]. [QUOTE]So much for Rumsfeld's protective claim, at last week's hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, that he had failed to bring the matter to the president's attention. No wonder Bush, in turn, rode out to the Pentagon and praised his servant-secretary for doing a "superb" job.[/QUOTE]But, of course there is more. Colin Powell not only put Mr. Bush in the loop about the International Committee of the Red Cross's allegations, but he kept him informed. [QUOTE]"We kept the president informed of the concerns that were raised by the ICRC and other international organizations as part of my regular briefings of the president, and advised him that we had to follow these issues, and when we got notes sent to us or reports sent to us ... we had to respond to them, and the president certainly made it clear that that's what he expected us to do," Powell said.[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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