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1. National Security Act of 1947, Title I, Section 101, July 26, 1947.
2. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], February 8, 2001.
3. Jane Perlez, “A Dual Path in Diplomacy,” New York Times, December 18, 2000.
4. Dana Milbank and Mike Allen, “Powell Is Named Secretary of State; Nominee 1st African American Tapped for Post,” Washington Post, December 17, 2000.
5. Thomas L. Friedman, “The Powell Perplex,” New York Times, December 19, 2000.
6. Laurence Silberman, “Toward Presidential Control of the State Department,” Foreign Affairs, vol. 57, no. 4 (Spring, 1979).
7. Colin Powell, remarks, “Secretary Powell Greets State Department Employees,” Washington, D.C., January 22, 2001.
8. Peter Rodman, Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), p. 239.
9. Jane Perlez, “Washington Memo; Divergent Voices Heard in Bush Foreign Policy,” New York Times, March 12, 2001.
10. Greg Pierce, “Biden vs. Rumsfeld,” Washington Times, June 22, 2001.
11. Rumsfeld, “Washington Times Article,” June 23, 2001; Greg Pierce, “Biden vs. Rumsfeld,” Washington Times, June 22, 2001.
12. Dana Milbank and Thomas E. Ricks, “Powell and Joint Chiefs Nudged Bush Toward U.N.,” Washington Post, September 4, 2003; Sarah Baxter, “Powell Tried to Talk Bush Out of War,” Sunday Times, July 8, 2007; Suzanne Goldenberg, Richard Norton-Taylor, and Katy Heslop, “Powell’s Doubts Over CIA Intelligence on Iraq Prompted Him to Set Up Secret Review,” The Guardian, June 2, 2003.
13. “Falling on His Sword,” Washington Post Magazine, October 1, 2006.
14. Rumsfeld, “Chain of Command,” December 2, 2002.
15. Rumsfeld to Rice, “Interagency Process,” August 20, 2002, and attachment to Rice, “Thoughts on the Interagency Process,” August 20, 2002.
16. Rumsfeld to Rice, “Approval for Memos,” December 27, 2001.
17. Rumsfeld to Rice, “NSC Meetings,” October 10, 2001; Rumsfeld to Rice, cc: Powell, “Schedule,” October 26, 2001; Rumsfeld to Rice, “PC Meeting,” December 13, 2001; Rumsfeld to Rice, “Approval for Memos,” December 27, 2001; Rumsfeld to Rice, “Approving NSC Documents,” December 31, 2001; Rumsfeld to Rice, “NSC Meeting October 9—Middle East,” October 16, 2002; Rumsfeld to Rice, “Chain of Command,” December 2, 2002; Rumsfeld to Rice, “briefing,” January 6, 2003; Rumsfeld to Rice, “NSC Meetings,” October 30, 2003; Rumsfeld to Rice, “Agendas and Schedules for PC and NSC Meetings,” November 5, 2003; Rumsfeld to Rice, “Contacting Combatant Commanders,” November 11, 2003; Rumsfeld to Rice, “PC Meetings,” December 17, 2003.
18. Rumsfeld to Rice, “Interagency Process,” August 20, 2002.
19. Lieutenant General Bantz Craddock to Rumsfeld, “PC & NSC Meetings: Are we improving?” May 29, 2004.
20. Peter Rodman, Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), p. 249.
CHAPTER 25 The Agony of Surprise
1. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum,” May 31, 2001.
2. Rumsfeld, “Force Reductions,” January 11, 2002.
3. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, May 31, 2001.
4. Robert Kagan, “Indefensible Defense Budget,” Washington Post, July 20, 2001.
5. Al Kamen, “Donny, We Hardly Knew Ye,” Washington Post, September 7, 2001.
6. Rumsfeld, speech, “DOD Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week Kickoff—Bureaucracy to Battlefield,” September 10, 2001.
7. “Rumsfeld Declares War on Bureaucracy,” Voice of America, September 10, 2001.
8. Rumsfeld, speech, “DOD Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week Kickoff—Bureaucracy to Battlefield,” September 10, 2001.
9. Rumsfeld, “Pearl Harbor Post-Mortem,” July 23, 2001.
10. Thomas Schelling, foreword, in Roberta Wohlstetter, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1962).
11. Steve Vogel, The Pentagon: A History (New York: Random House, 2007), p. 450.
12. Steve Vogel, The Pentagon: A History (New York: Random House, 2007), pp. 417–18.
13. Stephen A. Cambone, handwritten notes, September 11, 2001.
14. Victoria Clarke, handwritten notes, September