On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Bill Stewart wrote: > Of course, much of this may be a play by the "Senior US Defense Officials" > to make sure he gets the point and does resign, > rather than commentary by the news media, > and/or an attempt to distance themselves from a couple of > unpopular programs by sticking it on the designated fall guy, > but it still couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
I think there's a lot in the game to that. He *will* resign, he won't be fired :-) > The real question is whether the administration and officials > that rehired Poindexter and hired Ashcroft and Homeland Security > will continue the same kinds of attacks on US civil liberties > now that he's gone, and unfortunately, the answer is presumably yes. That has nothing to do with it. The pentagon had a choice, fire Poindexter or lose all of DARPA. DARPA has a lot of cool programs that are too important to lose, and Poindexter was giving them bad publicity. >From congres's perspective, choping off $2.5 billion to get rid of Poindexter was no big deal. For the pentagon it is a big deal. So they rid themselves of Poindexter and save everything else. Even Rumsfeld can understand that :-) Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
