Rapid Response at the Pentagon

Recently there was the announcement of the formation of "a new unit (at the Pentagon) to better promote its message across 24-hour rolling news outlets, and particularly on the internet."

Basically, they're forming the equivalent of a political campaign's rapid response team targeting the US media.

Well, we don't know if this effort to contradict the Army Times editorial, "Rumsfeld Must Go," is coming out of that new unit or not, but this is the sort of stuff they're talking about doing.

How wrong is it that DoD personnel are being diverted, in the middle of a war, to defend Don Rumsfeld's reputation?

(Also, I would argue that the fact that Rumsfeld feels the need to push back before the editorial is even published means that the claims that Army commanders have lost faith in him are true.)