In February 1977, the month after Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as President, and one month after I lost my job as Congressman Ron Paul’s research assistant, because he had lost the 1976 election by 268 votes out of about 180,000 cast, an article appeared in The Washingtonian: “Rumsfeld’s Rules.” This was a long list of unofficial rules that should govern any senior advisor in the Washington bureaucracy. In 1974, Donald Rumsfeld had copyrighted these rules. Now that he was out of office, he allowed a version of them to be published. Donald Rumsfeld had been the Secretary of Defense — … Continue reading The Spy’s Advice