Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday ridiculed media speculation of a power struggle between the Pentagon and CIA as “pedestrian and unimpressive.”

“There is no power play taking place in Washington,” an obviously exasperated Rumsfeld told reporters. “And yet all we read about is: Oh, this bureaucratic fight there, and someone?s doing a power grab there, and oh my goodness gracious, there?s a conspiracy about this.”