The Unknown Known for Rumsfeld, Iraq. At one point, Morris asks Rumsfeld, "Have you seen "The Fog of War"? What do you think about that?" to which Rumsfeld responds, "I hate it. That man had nothing to apologize for." Morris himself has been resistant to comparisons, stating "You can’t call this ‘"The Fog of War 2".’ I can’t imagine two individuals more unalike." The Unknown Known The Unknown Known (also known as The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld) is a 2013 American documentary film about the political career of former U.S. Secretary of Defense and congressman Donald Rumsfeld, directed
Known and Unknown: A Memoir the aspect of both knowledge and non-knowledge as being equally constitutive for political decisionmaking. They assume that the cognitive frame for political practice is determined by the relationship between "what we know, what we do not know, what we cannot know and" (according to the authors, being left out by Rumsfeld) "what we do not like to know". The cover depicts Rumsfeld during a get-away trip to Taos, which journalist Ben Smith has suggested conveys the notion of being "detached from the Beltway". Rumsfeld begins the book by recounting his famous 1983 meeting with Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. He recalls