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Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence...you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.
Donald Rumsfeld
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Donald Rumsfeld
Age: 88 †
Born: 1932
Born: July 9
Died: 2021
Died: June 29
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Former U.S. Secretary Of Defense
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Donald Henry Rumsfeld
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If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't I'll just respond cleverly.
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A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.
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