Saturday, October 31, 2009

Butler-Jones challenges Rumsfeld

Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, David Butler-Jones, commenting on the H1N1 vaccine shortage on Thursday made a comment that might challenge the US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s historical 2003 statement on the international intelligence situation. Here are the two comments:

First, David Butler-Jones “What I know today is not what I knew yesterday morning. And tomorrow I may find out something new,…”

Now Donald Rumsfeld “As we know there are known unknowns. There are things we know we know. There are also unknown unknowns. That is to say, there are things we know we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

Butler-Jones’ brevity, while admirable, will likely keep him out of first place on this topic.

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