Donald Rumsfeld is a master or rhetorical
flourish, as the title of this new Errol Morris documentary, The Unknown
Known alludes to. Talking point sleight of hand like “Unknown Unknown,” and
“The absence of evidence isn’t the evidence of absence,” was one of the reasons
that Rumsfeld was, at once, both one of the most beloved and most hated senior
advisors during the perilous first years of the War on Terror. Naturally, the
man himself is staggeringly more complex than this simple caricature implies,
and Morris has decided to put the spotlight him, albeit rather uncomfortably,
in his latest film.
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