> Rumfeld has uttered some doozies but an "unknown known" is not one of
> them. What he said was: "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 things we do not
> know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we
> don't know."
I consider this one of the most, if not the most, brilliant statement
from a politician or government official in the entire 21st century.
Like the man or not, but his "poetry" is reference material good.
AG
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