A question is a question...

Does Rumsfeld get off the hook because a reporter helped phrase a question and ensure that it got asked? He shouldn't. In an administration where media freedoms are treated with open hostility, reporters in the White House press pool frequently collaborate on drafting questions for press conferences.

It's Rumsfeld's answers to the questions which are actionable here. The guy has simply got to go. For the head of the DOD to say that he has no idea what the Army is doing during a war is an affront.