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Chapter 24: The National Security Council


  • 1National Security Act of 1947, Title I, Section 101, July 26, 1947.

  • 2Rumsfeld, [No Subject], February 8, 2001.

  • 3Jane Perlez, “A Dual Path in Diplomacy,” New York Times, December 18, 2000.

  • 4Dana Milbank and Mike Allen, “Powell Is Named Secretary of State; Nominee 1st African American Tapped for Post,” Washington Post, December 17, 2000.

  • 5Thomas L. Friedman, “The Powell Perplex,” New York Times, December 19, 2000.

  • 6Laurence Silberman, “Toward Presidential Control of the State Department,” Foreign Aairs, vol. 57, no. 4 (Spring, 1979).

  • 7Colin Powell, remarks, “Secretary Powell Greets State Department Employees,” Washington, D.C., January 22, 2001.

  • 8Peter Rodman, Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), p. 239.

  • 9Jane Perlez, “Washington Memo; Divergent Voices Heard in Bush Foreign Policy,” New York Times, March 12, 2001.

  • 10Greg Pierce, “Biden vs. Rumsfeld,” Washington Times, June 22, 2001.

  • 11Rumsfeld, “Washington Times Article,” June 23, 2001; Greg Pierce, “Biden vs. Rumsfeld,” Washington Times, June 22, 2001.

  • 12Dana Milbank and Thomas E. Ricks, “Powell and Joint Chiefs Nudged Bush Toward U.N.,” Washington Post, September 4, 2003; Sarah Baxter, “Powell Tried to Talk Bush Out of War,” Sunday Times, July 8, 2007; Suzanne Goldenberg and Richard Norton-Taylor, “Powell’s Doubts Over CIA Intelligence on Iraq Prompted Him to Set Up Secret Review,” The Guardian, June 2, 2003.

  • 13“Falling on His Sword,” Washington Post Magazine, October 1, 2006.

  • 14Rumsfeld to Rice, “Chain of Command,” December 2, 2002.

  • 15Rumsfeld to Rice, “Interagency Process,” August 20, 2002, and attachment to Rice, “Thoughts on the Interagency Process,” August 20, 2002.

  • 16Rumsfeld to Rice, “Approval for Memos,” December 27, 2001.

  • 17Rumsfeld to Rice, “NSC Meetings,” October 10, 2001; Rumsfeld to Rice, cc: Powell, “Schedule,” October 26, 2001; Rumsfeld to Rice, “PC Meeting,” December 13, 2001; Rumsfeld to Rice, “Approval for Memos,” December 27, 2001; Rumsfeld to Rice, “Approving NSC Documents,” December 31, 2001; Rumsfeld to Rice, “NSC Meeting October 9—Middle East,” October 16, 2002; Rumsfeld to Rice, “Chain of Command,” December 2, 2002; Rumsfeld to Rice, “Briefing,” January 6, 2003; Rumsfeld to Rice, “NSC Meetings,” October 30, 2003; Rumsfeld to Rice, “Agendas and Schedules for PC and NSC Meetings,” November 5, 2003; Rumsfeld to Rice, “Contacting Combatant Commanders,” November 11, 2003; Rumsfeld to Rice, “PC Meetings,” December 17, 2003.

  • 18Rumsfeld to Rice, “Interagency Process,” August 20, 2002.

  • 19Lieutenant General Bantz Craddock to Rumsfeld, “PC & NSC Meetings: Are we improving?” May 29, 2004.

  • 20Peter Rodman, Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush (NewYork: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), p. 249.

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