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Rumsfeld Blasts Top Brass General, admiral had complained publicly By RICHARD SISK Daily News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ripped two four-star officers yesterday for saying U.S. service members were tired and running out of a key weapon in the war on terror. Rumsfeld also announced the death of a Navy SEAL, who stepped on a land mine near Kandahar, Afghanistan. In a rare public rebuke for the top brass, Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, used a televised Pentagon briefing to criticize Army Gen. William Kernan and Adm. Robert Natter, commander...

Check out this piece from 1989...the players are the same, with way more power, now... >>>It is important to think of Rollnet as an international institution separate from, though interlinked with, the government of the United States. Rollnet cadres, such as those central to Contragate, circulated in and out of the official U.S. government. Those cadres-most prominently Oliver North-who had gained influential U.S. governmental positions were in effect using these positions to further their Rollnet cause; the Constitution and laws of the United States were secondary considerations. They equated the goals of the United States with the goals of Rollnet.<<<