Breaking: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Is Resigning!!!
That's what CNN and the Associated Press are reporting. President Bush is holding a press conference at 1 p.m.
This is obviously big news. Is it law-related? Yes, insofar as the global "war on terror" has raised a whole host of thorny legal issues: treatment of terror detainees, appropriate interrogation methods under the Geneva Convention, etc. A new Secretary of Defense may approach these issues in a different way.
(Also, even though Secretary Rumsfeld is not a lawyer, back in 1982 he served as Presidential Envoy on the Law of the Sea Treaty. And as everyone knows, maritime law is the bomb.)
GOP Says Rumsfeld Stepping Down [Associated Press]
Donald H. Rumsfeld bio [U.S. Department of Defense]
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If you're looking for insight into how Robert Gates might approach his new job, check out the blurb he wrote for an excellent book entitled "Reshaping National Intelligence for An Age of Information" by Gregory Treverton (RAND analyst and former vice chair of the National Intelligence Council under Clinton). Here's hoping he takes Treverton's recommendations to heart and reforms the hell out of the place!
http://www.amazon.com/Reshaping-National-Intelligence-Information-Analysis/dp/052158096X
Posted by: not anonymous at all, really | November 9, 2006 02:25 AM