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The story is how Bush has whipped Rummy back into his kennel and muzzled him, but there's this interesting little tidbit at the end:

William Nash, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a retired two-star Army general who commanded American peacekeeping forces in Bosnia, said the White House's political calculations will determine Rumsfeld's fate.

"Right now everything in this administration is being measured against whether or not it contributes to the re-election of the president in November," he said. "Obviously he's been a lightning rod and oh, by the way, he's also been wrong and that's never good" for Bush.

Nash suspects that Rumsfeld has yet to feel the full force of the Abu Ghraib abuse.

"I don't think there's any particular reason to believe that the Department of Defense is out of the woods on Abu Ghraib" he said.
(via CNN)

It's always interesting to imagine what the Beltway insiders and the SCLM know, that hasn't yet been revealed to the proles, isn't it?

Mr. Hersh?