In an interview iwth the Financial Times, Rumsfeld showed how annoyed he was by not being informed in advance of the formation of the Iraq Stabilization Group, a vehicle for national security advisor Condoleeza Rice to oversee the ‘postwar’ occupation and ‘reconstruction’ as well as give more of a say to the Dept of State. Both the military occupation, of course, and the civilian ‘reconstruction’ under Paul Bremer have been under Defense Dept oversight. White House spokesman Scott McClellan scrambled to cover dysadministration embarrassment that Rumsfeld had been left in the dark, and Condoleeza Rice did her usual dissembling, claiming that she had conferred in advance with the Defense Secretary, which he disputes. —NY Times