flip flop fly

Rummy says the "w" word:

from CNN

> WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
> appeared Monday to back off earlier statements
> suggesting Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had links to
> al Qaeda.
>
> He also conceded that U.S. intelligence was "wrong" in
> its conclusions that Iraq had weapons of mass
> destruction.

I think Rummy's famous "threat matrix" needs another category:

there are:
• things that we know that we know (known knowns)
• things that we know that we don't know (known unknowns)
• things that we don't know that we know (unknown knowns)
• things that we don't know that we don't know (unknown unknowns)

and now:
• things that we don't want anybody to know that we knew (damn lies)

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