10. July 2021

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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld speaking at CPAC 2011. (Gage Skidmore, https://flic.kr/p/9igpkB; CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)

With the recent passing of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, it’s worth revisiting one of his most famous commentaries. In a news conference on Feb. 12, 2012, he said that

Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some th

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