Today being Christmas Day, I think we should all come clean and dedicate ourselves to truth. When all is said and done (and pretty soon it may be), there is probably no person in the world as tortured over the truth these days as U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Some two weeks ago Mr. Rumsfeld, speaking at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, claimed, "We've arrived at a strange time in this country, where the worst about America and our military seems to so quickly be taken as truth by the press." He went on to say, about allegations that his government was paying journalists to plant positive articles in the press, "We don't know what the facts are yet [about this]."
Now, the Washington-based Lincoln Group announced on June 11, 2005, the awarding to them of a $100-million contract by the U.S. Special Operations Command. The Lincoln Group describes itself as "a strategic communications & public relations firm providing insight & influence in challenging & hostile environments." Their avowed aim is to "counter the lies, intimidation and pure evil of terror with factual stories."