The major portion of the film is spent addressing excerpts from the countless memos, nicknamed 'Yellow Perils' by his first The Pentagon staff and 'Snowflakes' by the second, that Rumsfeld wrote during his time as a Member of Congress and advisor to four different presidents, twice as United States Secretary of Defense.<ref name="TUU"/><ref name="yellow"></ref> It also focuses on a response Rumsfeld gave to a question at a U.S. Department of Defense news briefing on February 12, 2002, about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups. The content of the memos are varied, covering everything from the aftermath of Watergate Scandal, to Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, to the definition of the word "terrorism". Morris returns to the motif of snowflakes swirling within a snow globe throughout the documentary as he discusses the memos with Rumsfeld, the contents of which the Defense Secretary allowed him limited access while preparing the film, and several of which Rumsfeld agrees to read aloud on camera.<ref name="yellow"/><ref name="Baker"></ref>
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