Thomas White resigns

Apr-25-03, 07:47 PM (ET)

Army Secretary Thomas White Resigns

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 7:34 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Army Secretary Thomas White, who has been at odds with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld over modernizing the Army, resigned Friday.

In a brief statement, Rumsfeld thanked White for his service and said that his departure date had not yet been determined.

White became engaged in a public dispute with Rumsfeld last year over the defense secretary's proposal to cancel the Crusader artillery project, which White said was vital to the Army's future. Rumsfeld eventually canceled the program.

White was fired by Rumsfeld

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld fired Army Secretary Thomas White, whose tenure as civilian chief of the military's largest service was marked by tensions with his boss, a Pentagon official said Saturday.

A brief Pentagon statement late Friday announcing the resignation, which came from Rumsfeld's office, gave no reason for White's departure. He made no public comment, and Rumsfeld left early Saturday for the Persian Gulf area.

On Saturday, the official, who spoke privately with White, said Rumsfeld had asked him to resign. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said no single event or conflict precipitated the firing. Rumsfeld told White he wanted to steer the Army in a new direction.

Army officials said White had no public comment.

``Under the circumstances, the most dignified thing to do is to say nothing and accept Secretary Rumsfeld's decision as gracefully as possible,'' said Charles Krohn, a spokesman for White.

Resignments

from "911Skeptics Unite -the encyclopedia"

Note: The list compiles Resignments, not only related to political events, but to investigative angles of the Sep11th attack and a planning of the war against Afghanistan and Iraq ==================

~ 1997: Rocca, Christina (CIA)

August 1998: Ritter, Scott (UN inspection team)

June 2000: Cheney, Dick (Halliburton Kellog Root and Brown)

~ 2001: Royer, Jeffrey (FBI, 911-Insider Trading)

March 2001: Bashiruddin Mehmood (Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood), Abdul Majeed A.Q.Khan (Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) for alleged links with Bin Laden)

May 2001: Baxter, Clifford (ENRON)

August 2001: O' Neill, John (FBI)

August 2001: Louis J. Freeh(FBI, replaced by Thomas Pickard)

Summer 2001: Sirrs, Julie (DIA)

2001: Thomas Pickard (FBI, went to Bristol Myers Squibb)

September 2001 (a few days before Sep11th): Prince Turki Al Faisal (Saudi Intelligence, replaced by Prince Nawaf bin Abdulaziz)

September 2001: Abu Abdullah Shafae (Abu Abdullah Shafae , replaced by Mala Kreker)

September 12th, 2001: Mayo Shattuck III (Alex Brown, resigned from a $30 million, three-year contract)

October 1st, 2001: Henry H. Shelton (DoD)

October 6th, 2001: Ahmad, General Mahmud (ISI)

early 2002: John Weston (BAe)

February 22nd, 2002: Dr. Jeffrey Koplan (Chief of CDC)

March 2002: Mawn, Barry (FBI, replaced by Kevin P. Donovan)

April 11th, 2002: Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, who came back

April 2002: Jose Bustani (Chemical Convention)

April 2002: Dr. Robert Watson (chief of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

May 2002: Hughes, Karen (Bush-advisor)

May 2002: D.A. Henderson (Office of Public Health Preparedness /OPHP, replaced by Jerome Hauer)

May 31st, 2002 Joseph P. Nolan (GTCR, replaced by William C. Brooks)

2002: Black, Cofer (CIA)

2002: Watson, Dale (FBIHQ, went to Booz Allen)

September 7th, 2002: Laurent Murawiec (RAND researcher)

September 2002: Jay Stephens (US State Department -> became senior vice president Raytheon)

2002: Robert J. Chiaradio (FBIHQ, went to KPMG)

2002: Mary Ryan (Assistant Secretary of State

November 2002: Sherron Watkins (whistleblower at Worldcom)

December 2002: George Mitchell (911-commission)

December 2002: Kissinger, Henry (head of 911-commission)

December 2002: Lawrence B. Lindsey (National Economic Council, replaced by Stephen Friedman, former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs)

January 3rd, 2003: John C. Browne, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico

January 3rd, 2003: Joseph Salgado, Deputy Director of Los Alamos

January 31st, 2003: Richard Clarke, Director of CyberSecurity

March 2003: Albaugh, Joe (FEMA- announced in 12/02)

Furthermore: September 2001: Herta Daeubler-Gmelin (german government, for criticising Bush)

November 2002: Dr. Jeffrey Koplan (canadian Government, for criticising Bush)

Updates:

February/March 2003: John Brady Kiesling (Political Counselor in U.S. Embassy Athens)

March 2003: Rand Beers (National Security Council official)

March 2003: Mary Wright (Deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ulan Bator, Mongolia)

March 2003: Richard Perle (as head of National Defense Board, but remains as board member)

March 2003: Edward C. ``Pete'' Aldridge (Undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, responsible for announcement of "thermobarics" in December 2001)

March 2003: Martin E Sullivan (chairman of the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property) , with him another of the committee's nine members is also resigning over the issue of "the wanton and preventable destruction" of Iraq's National Museum of Antiquities.

April 2003: Thomas White (Army Secretary), fired by Donald Rumsfeld

Furthermore,as a protest against the war in Iraq, at least 6 politicians resigned in England, 3 of them even on the same day:

March 2003: Robin Cook (Leader of the House of Commons, UK)

March 2003: Lord Hunt (Health Minister , UK)

March 2003: John Denham (Home Office Minister, UK)

March 2003: Andy Reed (Labour MP for Loughborough, UKJ)

March 2003: Bob Blizzard (Parliamentary Private Secretary to work and pensions minister, UK)

March 2003: Anne Campbell (Parliamentary Private Secretary to Patricia Hewitt, secretary of state for trade and industry)

March 2003: David Kidney (MP for Stafford and a parliamentary private secretary)

March 2003: Jack Straw (quit as senior legal adviser to the foreign secretary)

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