Epstein Secrets

y call intuition and ingenuity.” Alan Turing HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015900 to their wireless set, waiting to hear whether the German army will advance on Warsaw. The Polish Intelligence Bureau badly needed to know what the German army was planning and had recruited this group of young mathematicians as code b

n unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we dont know we don't know.” Donald Rumsfeld United States Secretary of Defense (2001-2006, 1975-1977) HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015880 Chapter 9 KNOWN UNKNOWNS Donald Rumsfeld HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015881

was both the youngest and the oldest serving U.S. Secretary of Defense, serving under both Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. We will shortly discover Rumsfeld’s convoluted view of the world turns out to be closer to the truth than Hilbert’s tidy mathematical aspiration. As well as believing there were no u

nami-like changes wipe clean old orders and other, more sedate periods where time dawdles like a quiet lake. This is the difference between living in Warsaw in, say, 1339 or 1939. The first period was sober and silent; the second was awfully awake. Historic moments like 1939 are marked by the fact that ch

ging the most expensive war on terrorism in human history, the US was uneasily discovering that it was creating more terrorists. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had sketched the nature of this puzzle in an October, 2003 memo with acid clarity. He asked: “Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading m

yond what the soldiers and analysts could match or even fully monitor. “Is our current situation such that ‘the harder we work, the behinder we get?” Rumsfeld asked in 2003.38 To be constantly behind. This was a commander’s nightmare. Among other things it was that sense of never quite catching up that had

pean Parliament Michael Armacost, President, The Brookings Institution; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Jarzy Baczynsk, editor-in-chief, Polityka, Warsaw Euan Baird, Chairman, Schumberger Limited Piero Bassetti, former Chairman, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Milan Riley P. Bechtel, Chairman a

e Chairman Citicorp/Citibank, Brussels Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense Arthur F. Ryan, CEO,

or Development, Mexico City William D. Ruckershaus, Chairman, CEO, Browning-Ferris Ind. H. Onno Ruding, vice Chairman Citicorp/Citibank, Brussels Donald H. Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense Arthur F. Ryan, CEO, The Prudential Insurance Co. of America Rusdu Saracoglu, President of the Finance Group, Turkey Si