When asked to raise his hand and swear to tell the truth before giving testimony, Rumsfeld objected, saying that it was strange that laws applied to him. The Washington Post reported, The topic was the largest defense procurement scandal in recent decades, and the two investigators for the Pentagon's inspector general in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's office on April 1, 2005, asked the secretary to raise his hand and swear to tell the truth. Rumsfeld agreed but complained. "I find it strange," he said to the investigators, on the grounds that as a government official "the laws apply to me" anyway.
The comment comes from the transcript of the investigation which was recently obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act after a year-long wait.
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