More Resignations Expected at Pentagon After Rumsfeld's Departure

[sabra]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,228386,00.html

More Resignations Expected at Pentagon After Rumsfeld's Departure

WASHINGTON — More senior Pentagon officials are likely to step down in the coming days in the wake of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's announced departure, Pentagon officials told FOX News on Thursday.

Among those expected to hand in resignation letters is the Pentagon's top intelligence official, Under Secretary of Defense Steve Cambone, a close Rumsfeld associate and a key architect in planning for the Iraq war and the War on Terror.

Cambone is the first person to hold the post, and in doing so helped the Pentagon step up its own intelligence gathering assets, a role traditionally overseen by the CIA. The new system led to turf battles between the two agencies in recent years.

The White House announced Rumsfeld's departure on Wednesday, the day after Democrats won the majority in the next House of Representatives and appeared ready to take control of the Senate. On Thursday, it was decided that Democrat Jim Webb beat incumbent Sen. George Allen in the Senate race for Virginia, officially giving Democrats control of the Senate.

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Gates wants his own spooks installed. n/t

[Marie26]

2. Bye-bye, neocons. nt

[grytpype]

3. Good to see Cambone go.

He was one of the Arch Torturers.

[racaulk]

4. Not unexpected.

I expect to see a lot of resignations in Friday news dumps ... starting tomorrow. :evilgrin:

[leveymg]

5. Cambone is going to get one of the first subpoenas in January.

He's helped dig all the graves and bury the bones.

Steve - put your affairs in order.

[cliss]

9. You got that right.

This is one man I've been waiting to see him gone. If possible, even more than Rumsfailed.

[Vidar]

6. Good riddance.

[lapfog_1]

7. I believe that Pace must go as well. - n/t

[gratuitous]

8. Gettin' out one step ahead of the subpoenas

I hear Brazil is lovely this time of year. Made lovelier still by the fact that there is no extradition treaty between Brazil and the United States, eh Mr. Cambone?

[PATRICK]

10. The people who released

A-bomb toolkits online? How soon that little issue disappeared.

[NOLADEM]

11. It's fucking Christmas already?????

Best month in a very long time.

Haggard, Foley, Mehlman, Election, Both Houses, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Cambrone. Keep em coming.

[IndianaGreen]

12. Gordon England, Rummy's Deputy, should get the ax

England has views that put him to the right of Wal-Mart, he once compared labour unions to a bunch of nazis.