Anyone Surprised

Today comes the news that the Pentagon received a RAND report in 2005 that EVERYONE involved in planning the Iraq fiasco had screwed the pooch. This, apparently, was not Pentagon policy, so they buried the report (which normally would have been declassified as a matter of course.) From the NYT report:

A Pentagon official who is familiar with the episode offered a different interpretation: Army officials were concerned that the report would strain relations with a powerful defense secretary and become caught up in the political debate over the war. “The Army leaders who were involved did not want to take the chance of increasing the friction with Secretary Rumsfeld,” said the official, who asked not to be identified because he did not want to alienate senior military officials.

Paul Kiel at TPM has more.