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Donald Rumsfeld stories: 48 news summaries

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Flood of Bush Memoirs
May Trip Up GOP

Six administration figures to release books before midterm elections

Oct 14, 09 5:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - The 2010 elections offer Republicans the first chance in a long time to run without the handicap of the unpopular Bush administration. Or not. Bush may be out of office, but the period between now and next November could see the release of five Bush-era memoirs—from Hank Paulson, Laura... More »

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Bush administration • Barack Obama • Dick Cheney • Donald Rumsfeld • memoir • George W. Bush • Obama administration • Republicans

OPINION

Foolishness, Not Evil Genius, Drove 'Rove-o-Lution'

Top adviser's near absolute power corrupted absolutely

Sep 20, 09 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Liberals like to think of Karl Rove as a malevolent demigod, using his powers to obstruct the greater good. But, former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer writes in the Washington Post, the legacy of “Bush’s Brain” is far more mundane: “It is a story not of grand strategy... More »

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Dick Cheney • Karl Rove • Donald Rumsfeld • conservative • George W. Bush


 Ridge Takes 
 Back Threat 
 Level Claim 
 in His Book 

Retreats on earlier suggestion that politics played a role

Aug 31, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge says the Bush administration “never pressured” him to raise the US terror threat level, backing down on a claim made in his book, USA Today reports. In the book, Ridge writes that John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld pushed him to elevate it before... More »

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Bush administration • politics • Donald Rumsfeld • John Ashcroft • book • George W. Bush • Tom Ridge • alert level

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 McConnell: 
 White House 
 'Demonizing' 
 Health Critics 


Angry protests 'clearly being orchestrated,' Durbin counters

Aug 9, 09 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House is “demonizing” the fiercely outspoken critics of its health care reform, Sen. Mitch McConnell told Fox News Sunday today. “To demonize citizens who are energetic about this strikes me as demonstrating a kind of weakness in your position,” the Senate minority leader said, but... More »

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Iran • health care • North Korea • Newt Gingrich • Donald Rumsfeld • Mitch McConnell • Guantanamo Bay • health care reform • Jim Jones • Dick Durbin • Susan Rice • Lindsay Graham

ANALYSIS

 Would Rummy 
 Pull a McNamara 
 and Apologize? 

Not anytime soon, says his biographer

Jul 12, 09 8:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Robert McNamara, the architect of the Vietnam War, eventually expressed regret for the conflict—but would Donald Rumsfeld ever apologize for Iraq? Unlikely—at least not anytime soon, writes a Rumsfeld biographer in the Washington Post. Thus far, the former secretary of Defense “has never appeared to waver in... More »

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Donald Rumsfeld • apology • Vietnam War • Iraq war • George W. Bush • Robert McNamara

(Newser) - Katie Couric today delivered the Class Day speech to Princeton graduates, and posted the speech on the Huffington Post. Some highlights:
  • "I’ve been called a cougar lately in the tabloid press—today I’m very happy to be an honorary tiger! Coming here was a real no
... More »

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Katie Couric • Donald Rumsfeld • Rush Limbaugh • speech • Princeton • Sarah Palin • CBS Evening News • Class Day

OPINION

 Save the Trauma Excuses: 
 You Failed on 9/11 

Cheney, Rice too often resorted to the extreme without doing their homework

May 31, 09 11:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ironically, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice have defended their post-9/11 decisions by appealing for empathy, arguing that only those in charge on that bleak day could understand. “I have little sympathy for this argument,” Richard Clarke, who was there, retorts in a withering piece for the Washington Post,... More »

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Dick Cheney • Donald Rumsfeld • Condoleezza Rice • Richard Clarke • terror suspects • George W. Bush • wiretapping • 9/11 attacks

Rumsfeld Denies He Put Bible
in Briefings

GQ writer, anonymous sources better suited to gossip beat, he says

May 20, 09 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Donald Rumsfeld didn't decorate the president’s World Intelligence Update cover slides with biblical quotes, a spokesman says, and GQ reporter Robert Draper should've known better than to use anonymous sources "with an axe to grind." The slides, the spokesman says in an email to Marc Ambinder... More »

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Donald Rumsfeld • Joint Chiefs of Staff • US military • Department of Defense • Bible • Robert Draper • Iraq war • George W. Bush

GLOSSIES

Bullying Rumsfeld Used Bible to Sway Bush on Iraq

Former Pentagon chief undermined president, former aides say

May 17, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Donald Rumsfeld isn’t a preacher, but nearly every morning after the Iraq invasion, he handed President Bush a national security digest containing Biblical quotations intended to influence his decisions. This tactic, Robert Draper writes for GQ in a lengthy look at Rummy's standing among administration contemporaries, epitomizes the former... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • Pentagon • Donald Rumsfeld • US military • Department of Defense • Iraq war • George W. Bush

 'Rumsfeld's Renegades' 
 Blamed for Afghan Deaths 

Unit of 'cowboys' behind some of war's worst civilian casualty incidents

May 16, 09 5:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Special Forces unit set up by Donald Rumsfeld is being blamed for some of the worst civilian casualty incidents in the Afghanistan war, the Independent reports. The Marine Corps' Special Operations Command—known as MarSOC—ordered the air strikes that Afghan officials say killed 140 civilians last week, and... More »

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Afghanistan • Donald Rumsfeld • civilian casualties • US military • Special Forces • Marine Corps

analysis

 Gitmo Was Actually Humane 
 —Until Rumsfeld Took Over 

Camp's ills began when Rumsfeld weighed in

Jan 25, 09 12:12 PM CST
(Newser) - If Guantanamo Bay has become a symbol of torture, a place where prisoners' screams echo in our national psyche, it wasn’t always so, writes Karen Greenberg in the Washington Post. Though told the Geneva Conventions wouldn't technically apply, the military officials who set up the camp skirted Bush administration... More »

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Donald Rumsfeld • US military • Guantanamo Bay • treatment • Geneva Convention • Guantanamo prisoners • detainees

OPINION

 Bush Can Teach 
 Obama What 
 Not to Do: 
 Woodward 

Woodward has seen all the mistakes and lived to tell about it

Jan 15, 09 9:49 AM CST
(Newser) - George W. Bush’s presidency could teach Barack Obama many lessons—about what not to do. Bob Woodward lays out 10 of them in today’s Washington Post:
  • "Presidents need to draw people out and make sure bad news makes it to the Oval Office": Bush
... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Donald Rumsfeld • Condoleezza Rice • Bob Woodward • Bush legacy • Colin Powell • George W. Bush

(Newser) - Hostile Pentagon planners and government turf wars have hobbled US attempts to rebuild Iraq, which failed to improve facilities since the days of Saddam Hussein, a searing federal report says. The unpublished history adds that when efforts lagged, the Pentagon publicly lied about them. Led by a Republican lawyer, the... More »

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Pentagon • Donald Rumsfeld • Iraq reconstruction

 Senate Report 
 Pins Torture 
 on Rumsfeld 

Bipartisan panel, including McCain, concludes detainee abuse not just because of 'a few bad apples'

Dec 11, 08 2:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top White House officials were responsible for detainee abuse at US military prisons, a bipartisan Senate report finds. After 2 years of hearing testimony and reviewing documents, the study—released by Sens. John McCain and Carl Levin—traces controversial interrogation practices like sleep... More »

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Bush administration • Taliban • torture • Donald Rumsfeld • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • al-Qaeda • George W. Bush • torture memo

 Reports: 
 Gates Will 
 Remain at 
 Pentagon 

'Done deal' that Bush appointee will stay at least 1 year under Obama

Nov 25, 08 3:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Robert Gates will remain in his post as defense secretary at least through the first year of Barack Obama’s administration, reports ABC News. “It’s a done deal,” an anonymous source told the network today. Obama will reportedly unveil his choice of Gates shortly after Thanksgiving, along... More »

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Barack Obama • Pentagon • Donald Rumsfeld • troop surge • Robert Gates • Department of Defense • George HW Bush • transition • George W. Bush • President Obama

Obama Talks to Gates About Staying at Pentagon

Defense Secretary fulfill talk of bipartisan cabinet

Nov 19, 08 12:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama and Robert Gates are negotiating policy issues with a view toward Gates remaining Defense secretary, the Financial Times reports, a move that would make the Bush appointee a key member of a bipartisan cabinet that resembles Abraham Lincoln's “team of rivals.” Gates, a former CIA chief,... More »

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Barack Obama • military • Pentagon • Republican • Donald Rumsfeld • Cabinet • Robert Gates • defense secretary • bipartisanship • President Obama

Secret Directive Lets US Attack Up to 20 Nations

Rumsfeld order in '04 allowed peacetime strikes on al-Qaeda

Nov 10, 08 6:26 AM CST
(Newser) - The American military has conducted almost a dozen secret attacks against al-Qaeda and other militant groups in Syria, Pakistan, and other nations since 2004, the New York Times reveals. The strikes were carried out under a classified order signed by Donald Rumsfeld that gave sweeping powers to let the military... More »

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Pentagon • Donald Rumsfeld • US military • counterterrorism • defense secretary • airstrike • al-Qaeda

 US 'Spied on Iraqi Leaders'

Woodward book reveals finds 'detached' Bush 'often failed to lead' on Iraq

Sep 5, 08 4:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration conducted an extensive spying operation on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders even while seeking to win their trust, according to a new book from the Washington Post's Bob Woodward. The book portrays an administration hamstrung by indecision as its Iraq strategy fell apart in... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Donald Rumsfeld • Nouri al-Maliki • Bob Woodward • spying • Gen. George Casey • Iraq war

Ex-Pentagon Lawyers Face Grilling in Torture Probe

Defense Department lawyers played bigger role in Gitmo than first thought

Jun 17, 08 5:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Pentagon • Donald Rumsfeld • Guantanamo Bay • Carl Levin • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • Senate Armed Services Committee

ANALYSIS

Why Obama Might Have
a Jones Jones

Ex-general stood up to Rumsfeld—but he's also a McCain pal

Jun 11, 08 3:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

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