It is a strange historical footnote that CNN Evening News on September 10 carried a short story under the headline “Defense Secretary Declares War on the Pentagon’s Bureaucracy” and that, the next morning, the network would report on an attack on that institution of a distinctly less metaphorical kind, one that killed 125 Pentagon employees and seriously wounded another 110 of the people whom Rumsfeld had portrayed as enemies of the state less than twenty-four hours earlier.
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