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  • June 2008

    • Ex-Pentagon Lawyers Face Grilling in Torture Probe

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Jun 17, 08 5:33 AM CDT

      Ex-Pentagon Lawyers Face Grilling in Torture Probe

      Pentagon lawyers had more input than was initially thought into the harsh interrogation techniques used on Guantanamo Bay prisoners, sources close to a Senate investigation have told the New York Times . Documents from 2002 reveal that officials in the Department of Defense, then run by Donald Rumsfeld, researched techniques like waterboarding months before they were used on detainees. More »

    • Why Obama Might Have a Jones Jones

      newser  |  New Republic  |  Jun 11, 08 3:28 PM CDT

      Why Obama Might Have a Jones Jones

      Analysts were surprised to see the name of retired general James Jones on Barack Obama's vice-presidential shortlist yesterday, but Noam Scheiber, in the New Republic thinks he knows what the former NATO commander was doing there. Per Bob Woodward’s most recent book, Scheiber notes Jones was so put off by Donald Rumsfeld he refused to interview for the Joint Chiefs chairmanship. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Iraq  • John McCain  • vice president  • Donald Rumsfeld  • James Jones  • Bob Woodward

  • May 2008

    • Pentagon Emails Detail TV Propaganda Plans

      newser  |  Salon  |  May 10, 08 4:23 PM CDT

      Pentagon Emails Detail TV Propaganda Plans

      Need more proof that the Pentagon coached ostensibly impartial military analysts about what to say on TV? In Salon, Glenn Greenwald reveals emails from one top defense staffer who suggested developing a core group of insiders who are “most reliably friendly” and that “we can count on to carry our water.” A Rumseld aide agreed, adding, "We're already doing a lot of this." The allegations first surfaced in a New York Times investigative piece. More »

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      Pentagon  • military  • Donald Rumsfeld  • media coverage  • Department of Defense  • TV networks

    • Rumsfeld Dodged Early Iraq Failures: Sanchez

      newser  |  Time  |  May 4, 08 11:34 AM CDT

      Rumsfeld Dodged Early Iraq Failures: Sanchez

      Early mistakes in Iraq—and the extent of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's involvement in them—are the subject of a Time excerpt from a book by the former commander of US forces in Iraq, Gen. Ricardo Sanchez. Sanchez details an effort by Rumsfeld to get him to agree, on paper, that Rumsfeld had been out of the loop on the premature drawdown of strategic command forces that led to disarray—a claim Sanchez vehemently denies. More »

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      Iraq war  • US Army  • Donald Rumsfeld  • Abu Ghraib  • Department of Defense  • Ricardo Sanchez  • cover up  • CentCom

  • April 2008

    • Pentagon Purse Strings Ensnare TV Military Analysts

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 20, 08 8:00 AM CDT

      Pentagon Purse Strings Ensnare TV Military Analysts

      Several so-called "independent" military analysts who often support Defense Department positions on TV news programs have been linked closely to defense contractors and the Pentagon in an extensive New York Times investigation. "We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you,’” is the way one former general characterized Pentagon manipulation of his TV commentaries. More »

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      television  • US military  • Pentagon  • Donald Rumsfeld  • Department of Defense

    • White House 'Duped' General Into Torture: Book

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Apr 19, 08 7:54 AM CDT

      White House 'Duped' General Into Torture: Book

      The Bush administration "hoodwinked" one of the country's top military men in order to establish harsh interrogation techniques on Guantanamo Bay prisoners, according to revelations in a new book reported in the Guardian. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers was misled by White House aides into abandoning the military's long-standing ban on inhumane treatment of prisoners, according to London law professor Phillipe Sands in his book Torture Team. More »

    • Rumsfeld to Pen Memoirs

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Apr 15, 08 6:04 AM CDT

      Rumsfeld to Pen Memoirs

      Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, one of the architects of the war in Iraq who resigned from the Bush administration when the US became mired in the insurgency, is writing his memoirs, Reuters reports. The 75-year-old former congressman won't take an advance and will donate the book's proceeds to a not-for-profit foundation. The memoirs will cover his life from the Depression through the Bush years. More »

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      Iraq war  • Congress  • al-Qaeda  • Pentagon  • World War II  • Ronald Reagan  • Donald Rumsfeld  • Richard Nixon  • Gerald Ford  • Great Depression

    • Top Bushies Personally OK'd Tough Interrogation Tactics

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Apr 10, 08 3:16 PM CDT

      Top Bushies Personally OK'd Tough Interrogation Tactics

      Senior White House officials explicitly approved interrogation technique details in several meetings beginning in 2002, sources tell ABC. It was previously known that the CIA drafted a “Golden Shield” memo approving highly specific tactics for use on al-Qaeda detainees, but that top officials—including Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld—personally condoned the policy, on multiple occasions, is a new revelation. More »

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      Condoleezza Rice  • CIA  • Dick Cheney  • Donald Rumsfeld  • interrogation techniques  • John Ashcroft  • Colin Powell

  • March 2008

    • Abu Ghraib Torturerer: 'Rumsfeld Knew'

      newser  |  Stern (Germany)  |  Mar 19, 08 4:37 AM CDT

      Abu Ghraib Torturerer: 'Rumsfeld Knew'

      Lynndie England spent nearly a year and a half in jail for her role in the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. In her first interview since her release, she tells the German news magazine Stern that she was sorry about the pictures of Iraqi detainees but insisted that "what we did happens in war." England also insists that "the media" are to blame for publishing the photos and stoking anti-American sentiment that followed the Abu Ghraib scandal. More »

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      Iraq war  • torture  • Donald Rumsfeld  • Abu Ghraib  • Lynndie England

    • Saddam Had No Links to Al-Qaeda: Pentagon Study

      newser  |  McClatchy Newspapers  |  Mar 11, 08 5:48 AM CDT

      Saddam Had No Links to Al-Qaeda: Pentagon Study

      A Pentagon-sponsored study of captured Iraqi intelligence archives has been unable to find a single operational link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden or his al-Qaeda network, reports the McClatchy newspapers. The study will be released this week and is expected to refuel debate over the US justification for invading Iraq. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once described evidence for links between the two as "bulletproof." More »

    • Iraq's Toll Spirals Into Trillions

      newser  |  Christian Science Monitor  |  Mar 10, 08 9:44 AM CDT

      Iraq's Toll Spirals Into Trillions

      In 2002 Donald Rumsfeld envisioned an Iraq war price tag of "something under $50 billion," but a Harvard professor and a Nobel-prize winning economist now pin the total cost at $3 trillion, with a "running cost" of $12.5 billion a month. As the Iraq war enters its sixth year next week, the Christian Science Monitor takes a look at the varying estimates. More »

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      Iraq war  • oil price  • veterans  • Donald Rumsfeld  • Iraq war spending  • war cost  • Joseph Stiglitz

  • February 2008

    • Pentagon, Army Captain Differ on Obama Tale

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Feb 23, 08 9:03 AM CST

      Pentagon, Army Captain Differ on Obama Tale

      Pentagon officials moved quickly yesterday to rebut Barack Obama's tale of an Army captain whose platoon, deployed in Afghanistan, was stripped of men and so lacking in equipment that they resorted to using captured Taliban weapons. "I find that account pretty hard to imagine," an Army spokesman said of the anecdote Obama told during Thursday's debate, MSNBC reports. But the captain himself confirmed the details to ABC yesterday. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Afghanistan  • Pentagon  • US Army  • Donald Rumsfeld  • Democratic debate  • army supplies

  • January 2008

    • Judges Say Guantanamo Four Can't Sue

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jan 12, 08 7:00 AM CST

      Judges Say Guantanamo Four Can't Sue

      Four British citizens who spent over two years at Guantanamo Bay before being released without charge have been told they can't sue Pentagon officials, Reuters reports. The men brought the lawsuit over alleged torture, abuse, and violations of their religious rights. The US appeals court ruling yesterday said the defendants, including Donald Rumsfeld, had immunity because they were acting within their jobs; and religious protections don't apply to aliens held outside US territory. More »

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      lawsuit  • Pentagon  • Guantanamo Bay  • torture  • Guantanamo prisoners  • Donald Rumsfeld

  • December 2007

    • ‘Anti-Rumsfeld’ Cools Iran War Rhetoric

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Dec 3, 07 7:35 PM CST

      &lsquo;Anti-Rumsfeld&rsquo; Cools Iran War Rhetoric

      Dubbed the “Anti-Rumsfeld,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates is soothing fears that the US will bomb Iran—while trying to guard against mishaps that might trigger a war. Certain that a Tehran strike would spark a wider conflict and terror in Europe, Gates coolly tries to “lower the temperature,” Newsweek reports, as a Cold War-style counterbalance to the VP's battle plans. More »

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      Iran  • Dick Cheney  • Robert Gates  • Donald Rumsfeld  • Forrest Gump

  • November 2007

    • US Should Tune In to Al Jazeera

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Nov 12, 07 9:56 PM CST

      US Should Tune In to Al Jazeera

      Year-old Al Jazeera English is only in a handful of US markets—a fact that “amounts to self-destructive blindness,” says the Times ’ Roger Cohen. By not watching the channel Donald Rumsfeld called “vicious, inaccurate, and inexcusable,” we damage our chances in the war of ideas—because we don’t know what the world is thinking. More »

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      Donald Rumsfeld  • Al Jazeera  • Burlington, Vermont

    • Rumsfeld Memos: 'Keep Elevating the Threat'

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Nov 1, 07 1:08 PM CDT

      Rumsfeld Memos: 'Keep Elevating the Threat'

      During his six years as defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld told staffers to “keep elevating the threat” and develop “bumper sticker statements” to sell administration war policies. Internal memos obtained by the Washington Post depict a media- and politics-obsessed Rumsfeld who instructed staffers to link Iraq and Iran, contemplated re-naming the war on terror, and ordered detailed rebuttals to critical newspaper columns. More »

  • October 2007
  • September 2007

    • Gates Sketches the Military's Long Haul

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Sep 19, 07 11:49 AM CDT

      Gates Sketches the Military's Long Haul

      The Wall Street Journal meets with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, whose vision for a postwar Iraq includes a long-term American military presence—but no permanent bases à la Germany or Korea. Gates also proposes the maintenance of air- and sea-based forces throughout the Persian Gulf. It's a vision similar to that proposed by the Iraq Study Group, not to mention Senate Democrats. More »

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      Iraq  • Robert Gates  • Donald Rumsfeld  • Persian Gulf

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