“And Hell, if it doesn’t work now, we’ll just try it again in 30 years, Rummy — I’ll be CEO of Brown & Root by then, or maybe even bigger,” said Cheney, far right, to Rumsfeld, left, in 1974 as Ford, center, wondered what they meant, according to newly-released CIA recordings. It was Rumsfeld, in his earlier Ford Administration job as Pentagon honcho, who drafted the regulations permitting no-bid contracts now used in Iraq.
