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"There are unknown unknowns" is a phrase from a response United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave to a question at a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) news briefing on February 12, 2002, about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups. [1]
Rumsfeld's Knowns and Unknowns: The Intellectual History of a Quip. How will posterity remember the secretary of defense's most famous soundbite? That's a known unknown. By David A. Graham....
Mar 1, 2009 · In February 2002, Donald Rumsfeld, the then US Secretary of State for Defence, stated at a Defence Department briefing: ‘There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns.
- David C. Logan
- 2009
Dec 12, 2020 · On February the 12th, 2002, the then Secretary of Defense of the United States, Donald Rumsfeld, stated the following words (as captured in a YouTube video here): “ [A]s we know, there are...
- Paul Austin Murphy
May 29, 2012 · Few Americans have spent more time near the center of power than Donald Rumsfeld, whose widely commented-on memoir offers many previously undisclosed details about his service with four U.S. presidents.
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- Donald Rumsfeld
Jun 30, 2021 · WASHINGTON Donald Rumsfeld – controversial Defense Secretary and architect of the Iraq war – died Tuesday in Taos, New Mexico, days before his 89th birthday, his family confirmed Wednesday. The...
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Sep 1, 2005 · At a February 12, 2002, news briefing, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld explained the limitations of intelligence reports: "There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We...
