Bill Rufty was there and contributes this column.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041217/NEWS/412170372/1134Graham Talks Intelligence at FSC
By Bill Rufty
The Ledger
bill.rufty@theledger.com
LAKELAND -- President Bush should demand the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld if Rumsfeld fails to comply with the Intelligence Reform Act being signed into law today, transferring intelligence operations to a central director, U.S. Sen. Bob Graham said Thursday evening.
The Miami Springs Democrat was responding to a question from a member of the overflow audience for his lecture at Florida Southern College. The person asking the question asked how the federal government can ensure the new centralized intelligence agency will work.
In an earlier interview with The Ledger, Graham sidestepped a question about whether the embattled defense secretary should resign.
"I am certain he did resign," Graham said.
"Traditionally, all Cabinet officers submit their resignations at the end of a president's first term. So then the decision to stay on was not Rumsfeld's but the president's."