Rumsfeld ranked failures of imagination above known risks as the top threat.

Evidence

Rumsfeld gave the following response to a relevant question in Morris’s film: “In my confirmation hearing … the best question I was asked was, What do you worry about when you go to bed at night? And my answer was, in effect, intelligence. The danger that we can be surprised because of a failure of imagining what might happen in the world.” — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 718

Categorization

• SEED: Strong angle: ‘knowing unknowns’ as a discourse of power — how institutionally manufactured ignorance (see McGoey paragraph) uses imagination-failure as justification for secrecy and surveillance.
• XREF: Directly connects to McGoey’s strategic ignorance theme in the surrounding paragraphs, and to the reader’s manufactured-uncertainty core. Rumsfeld’s logic justifies the very opacity McGoey critiques.