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Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Department Briefing on February 12, 2002:

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.

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  • Ya think?

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  • If you had any idea about project management you would recognize this as being quite a cogent statement.

  • I agree that it's not that dumb...but isn't your example a known unknown....when you're able to consciously acknowledge an unawareness of a situation, that means that we know that something is unknown. It seems that we would never be able to imagine an unknown unknown because the minute we think about it, we become aware and it becomes known.... just rambling at this point ^_^

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  • Unknown unknowns does sound like est training.

  • @ReleaseJulianAssange Address my points please.

    "Why the hell does Julian Assanges Lawyer/Solicitor belong to a group controlled by the Rothchilds. JA Lawyer Mark Stephens works for the Rothchilds. Via Fox Rothchild LLP Attorneys at Law. Address that. Before anything else. I think its a tad important. Don't you. Google it for yourself. You'll find I'm speaking the truth. Not hearsay like most of the smoke and mirrors bullshit offered up by Mr Pys-Op himself. GOOGLE IT

  • @ReleaseJulianAssange HA HA What ? Rumsfield says absolutely jack shit, that anybody with a mind didn't already know. Oh and yes Julian Assange says absolutely Jack Shit as well. That we didn't already know. JA is a CIA/Mossad/MI5 asset. Oh 15,000 files that we are reviewing with some maybes and a couple of possibles. This is your proof ? Off What ? That you have been totally sucked into the Assange double agent bullshit. He is not fighting for us. Assange is a double agent psy-ops on steroids.

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHA SE WAHT I MEAN POSTPANIC2??

    NOW CHECK THIS: Julian Assange Explains Who The Bastards Are

  • this sounds just like something I saw on The Boondocks, but Youtube won't let me respond with the video URL.

  • I think I know what you're saying

  • What a pillock

  • Wow, I honestly had NO idea about that.

  • The Rumsfeld School of Epistemology everybody!

  • it makes sense, but he should have phrase it differently

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