You keep harping on this, but you still don't claim there is any other possible meaning to what Shinseki is reported to have told Rumsfeld.  Telling ones superior that his plan will not be implemented is insubordination; that's what the word means.  "Came close to" is pulling the punch.  And whether it's in quote marks or not, it's what Babbin's source told him Shinseki said.  I'm not convinced, so unless I see a better argument within half an hour, I'm going to restore the line, as it was before the vandal with the multiple IP addresses started messing with it.