-Caveat Lector- (Rumsfeld is a Babbling Idiot. A Dangerous Babbling Idiot. America wake up!)
Rumsfeld: NATO Threatened by 'Unknown Unknowns' June 06, 2002 01:45 PM ET BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld baffled NATO allies and journalists alike on Thursday by saying the greatest threats to Western civilization may lurk in "unknown unknowns." Rumsfeld told a news conference in Brussels he had explained to allied defense ministers that even U.S. intelligence agencies often only saw the tip of the iceberg in looking at military threats from "terrorists and terrorist states." "What you find is there are very important pieces of intelligence information that countries that spend a lot of money and a lot of time with a lot of wonderful people trying to learn more about what's going on in the world did not know -- some significant event for two years after it happened...in some cases 12 and 13 and 14 years after it happened," he said. Rumsfeld was defending Washington's view that the United States and its allies could not wait for "absolute proof" before taking action against groups and states suspected of acquiring weapons of mass destruction. "The message is that there are no knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns, that is to say there are things we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- things we do not know we don't know. "So when we do the best we can and we pull all this information together, and we then say 'well, that's basically what we see as the situation', that is really only the known knowns and the known unknowns. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns," he said. Acknowledging that his argument might sound like a riddle, Rumsfeld concluded with a flourish: "There is another way to phrase that, and that is that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." -end article- -------------------- -InfoWarz It is obvious that Bush and his Administration are hell-bent on world war and an American Police State. Instituting every aspect of the Clinton Agenda. Times Ten. America, scream now in protest, or scream later in agony. But you will scream. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
