hurricane katrina response after fema had fouled it up he recalled a paper written by admiral elmo zumwalt regarding how to use the media to help the american people stay informed he told task and purpose magazine zumwalt taught us that you can use the press to speak to the american people you've got to take into account that people loan us their sons and their daughters and they want to know what the hell we're doing with them. yes. and also let's not forget i was like this idea of the pentagon and let's not forget that building you see there everything the pentagon uses on a daily basis from the pens to the bullets to the rockets we paid for her the american people pay for these things so i really offends me actually but they haven't had a press conference look in three hundred days really but i mean this violence comes as. the iranian revolutionary guard terrorists three american service members plus one contractor recently killed in afghanistan correct but not a word of the pentagon officially they've talked to the press but not like in the actual room talking to reporters and it doesn