A16 Rumsfeld Responds to Critics Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld predicted that calls from retired generals for him to step down would fade away, and he dismissed the criticism as a standard part of the history of American combat.
Mr. Storr of Yale said, "I think we will never get a settled opinion on him, and unlike Hopper, there will not be an agreed upon general status for him".
The generals called for him to be investigated for abusing his office after he named General Yasar Buyukanit, a leading army commander, in his indictment of three military-intelligence operatives accused of blowing up a Kurdish bookshop in the town of Semdinli last November.
Kennedy notes that even the dictatorial Stalin "began to relax his iron grasp once he understood that he had a team of first-class generals working for him".
He recognized that when he was irresolute it was in response to his upbringing, but caution, in general, paid off for him.
The information that Paterno was given about Sandusky's abuse in 2001 was "too general and vague for him to disregard decades of contrary experience," the report said.
Mr. Spitzer had turned to staff members from his days as attorney general — now working for him in the governor's office — to spearhead both efforts.
The general idea was for him to get another plum job, I would write a book, we'd buy a bigger house in London and perhaps we'd spawn ("We'd better get on with it!" he said, the last time we talked about it before his brain injury).
The lawmakers — Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado, both of whom are Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee — sent a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. calling for him to "correct the public record" and to ensure that future department statements about the authority the government believes is conveyed by the surveillance law would not be misleading.
And no subordinate general could substitute for him.
