The Department of Defense have hastily deleted an article in which Donald Rumsfeld admits that a missile hit the Pentagon during the 9/11 attacks. The article has been preserved on the Wayback Machine, and in the transcript below you will find references to Rumsfeld saying that a “missile damaged this building“, and other words to that effect. From Defense.gov: Interview with Lyric Wallwork Winik, Parade Magazine Q: Let me start by asking you, most of us are programmed to leave a building with smoke. What made you go towards the fire here a little over a month ago, and what was going through your mind? Rumsfeld: Well, I was sitting here and the building was struck, and you could feel the impact of it very clearly, and I don’t know what made me do anything I did, to be honest with you. I just do it instinctive. I looked out the window, saw nothing here, and then went down the hall until the smoke was too bad, then to a stairwell down and went outside and saw what had happened. Asked a person who’d seen it, and he told me that a plane had flown into it. I had been [...]