#pentagon

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#commercial #crashing #ever #here #history

The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#books #efficient #even #forces #go

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#been #case #court #even #government

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#leak #least #like #papers #pentagon

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular. ↗

— Jay Leno

#given #iraqi #name #operation #pentagon

I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#certainly #continued #could #did #house

As the Pentagon makes plans for the largest troop rotation since World War II, I will work with the Armed Services Committee to help make this proposal a reality. ↗

— Mike Rogers

#armed services #committee #help #i #ii

It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which was the way we did before 9/11, and then looking at 9/11 and saying, "This is not a criminal act," not when you destroy 16 acres of Manhattan, kill 3,000 Americans, blow a big hole in the Pentagon. That's an act of war. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#act #acts #back #before #between

Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#after #been #complaints #cross #detainees

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#civilian #control #cutting #eliminate #layer