Errol Morris Is Making A Documentary About Donald Rumsfeld

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld speaks to politicians and academics during a luncheon on security in rising Asia, in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

How will we remember Donald H. Rumsfeld? As “a ruthless little bastard” (as President Nixon once described him), who became Nixon’s anti-poverty czar despite voting against the very post’s creation as a congressman? As a champion of transparency who co-sponsored the Freedom of Information Act, ensuring public access to U.S. government records? Or as a bungling Iraqi-war commandant and architect of “enhanced interrogation techniques” that led to the torture of prisoners of war at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay?  We will soon have a better idea, for Vulture hears exclusively that Errol Morris has gotten the two-time Secretary of Defense to sit for a lengthy series of interviews, which Morris aims to release later this year as a documentary feature film.

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Comments

[pattithepolitico]

05:34 PM on 03/14/2012

I think I've seen all of Rumsfeld I ever want to see. I won't be watching this one.

[dhugz]

04:24 PM on 03/14/2012

I hope the story includes rummy's aspertame and tamiflu connection.

[addisonsteele]

05:21 PM on 03/14/2012

I doubt it. Too few Americans know about the Reagan administration's corruption in connection with the approval of aspertame. But, of course, too few Americans know how personally corrupt Ronald Reagan was.

[MajorKong]

04:13 PM on 03/14/2012

Didn't they already make this? I think it was called Nightmare on Elm Street.

[Pinkensteve]

04:10 PM on 03/14/2012

They'd already made one. It was called "It's a mad mad mad world".

[commentonthehuffpost]

04:09 PM on 03/14/2012

Glad to see it's Errol Morris. He won't Rumsfeld get away with his interview-avoidance tactic of asking then answering his own questions.

[dfranz]

04:08 PM on 03/14/2012

Unless he is called the person most responsible for the dreadful mental state of our armed forces any documentary will be a sham. He was so proud of his "new military model" of quick "surgical" strikes and a lean an mobile armed forces. He was also the author of the all volunteer military because he knew that if Americans didn't have skin in the game they wouldn't even pay any attention to his little expeditions. What we ended up with was a military debilitated by PTSD and pre-emptive wars of choice.

[linbianism]

04:02 PM on 03/14/2012

itll probably be like the robert mcnamara documentary "the fog of war" where he just finally admits he got all these people killed for no reason,

[tacevad]

03:55 PM on 03/14/2012

if it is a true to life documentary it should be mandatory to show it in every civics class in America as a bad example

[judesuper]

03:54 PM on 03/14/2012

Who's going to want to watch that?

We lived it and certainly don't want to do it again!

[sunny47]

03:51 PM on 03/14/2012

if it's an accurate documentary, then he'll be hauled off to jail where he belongs

[Gib Melson]

03:49 PM on 03/14/2012

If Americans had a brain he would be remembered as one of the Neocon cabal members that helped destroy America. He was also a ruthless businessman that sold nuclear technology to North Korea and he was also a warmonger and helped fleece America to the tune of trillions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/may/09/nuclear.northkorea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU

[AirForce Vet]

03:43 PM on 03/14/2012

This is what I have to say about the documentary. Drain the swamp with Rumsfeld in it.

A quote of Rumsfeld and he should know best:

“It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

[Irregardless]

03:34 PM on 03/14/2012

.He was possibly the worst Sec of Defense in our history,..what else is there to know?

[ethiopia1a]

03:26 PM on 03/14/2012

No worries it's @ horror channel.

[Konnie]

03:20 PM on 03/14/2012

will it have a happy ending.......you know where he is hauled off to the hague for crimes against humanity?????

[tacevad]

03:52 PM on 03/14/2012

that is the only "Just" outcome