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RUMSFELD: Well, it's such a complicated subject. Today we collect so much information and only a relatively small portion is actually analyzed and communicated. But the real tension that exists is we have these stovepipes where only certain people know this and certain people know that. And people over here need to know it and don't know it.
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Donald Rumsfeld Holds a News Conference
SECRETARY RUMSFELD HOLDS A NEWS CONFERENCE, AS RELEASED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
AUGUST 26, 2004SPEAKER: DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE[*] QUESTION: (Inaudible)RUMSFELD: Well, as I testified before Congress, if you're the secretary of defense and something happens in your area of responsibility and you simply have to accept that responsibility. And on the other hand, we've got a big department, you know, 3 million people in the military and the civilian total. What is that, three times the size of Phoenix. And at any given moment, there's something happening somewhere in the world in that population. We have about 3,000 courts martial a year and we have something like 17,000 criminal investigations a year that are going on. We have 70 DOD corrections facilities, some 13 of them overseas. And the Department ...See the full content of this document
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