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Pentagon Emails Detail
TV Propaganda Plans

Defense officials sought military experts willing to "carry our water"

May 10, 08 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Rumsfeld Dodged Early
Iraq Failures: Sanchez

Former general speaks out in new book, describes lies and 'total BS'

May 4, 08 11:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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,... More »

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

Pentagon Purse Strings Ensnare TV Military Analysts

Commentators linked to defense contractors

Apr 20, 08 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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,’... More »

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

White House 'Duped' General Into Torture: Book

Myers 'hoodwinked' into permitting harsh techniques

Apr 19, 08 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Donald Rumsfeld • Joint Chiefs of Staff • US military • Guantanamo Bay • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation

 Rumsfeld to Pen Memoirs 

Proceeds will go to foundation

Apr 15, 08 6:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Top Bushies Personally OK'd Tough Interrogation Tactics

Meetings show high-level approval of CIA's 'enhanced' detainee treatment

Apr 10, 08 3:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Abu Ghraib Torturerer: 'Rumsfeld Knew'

Lynndie England implicates ex-defense sec in interview

Mar 19, 08 4:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Saddam Had No Links to Al-Qaeda: Pentagon Study

Iraq invasion justification again called into question

Mar 11, 08 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Barack Obama • John McCain • Donald Rumsfeld • Hamas • State Department • Osama bin Laden • Colin Powell • Islamic Jihad • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine • al-Qaeda • Institute for Defense Analyses • U.S. Joint Forces Command • Abu Nidal

Iraq's Toll Spirals Into Trillions

Iraq may cost up to $12.5B each month

Mar 10, 08 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

Pentagon, Army Captain Differ on Obama Tale

Army doubts, captain confirms weapons, troop shortages

Feb 23, 08 9:03 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Pentagon • Donald Rumsfeld • US Army • army supplies • Democratic debate • Army captain • lack of military supplies

Judges Say Guantanamo Four Can't Sue

80 protesters arrested on 6th anniversary of first detainees

Jan 12, 08 7:00 AM CST
(Newser) - 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,... More »

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

‘Anti-Rumsfeld’ Cools Iran War Rhetoric

Servant to 7 presidents prefers 'soft power' to VP's battle plans

Dec 3, 07 7:35 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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

US Should Tune In to Al Jazeera

English-language network affords a close-up view of our own loss of influence 

Nov 12, 07 9:56 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Donald Rumsfeld • Al Jazeera • Toledo, Ohio • Burlington, Vermont • war of ideas

Rumsfeld Memos: 'Keep Elevating
the Threat'

'Snowflakes' urge linking Iraq and Iran

Nov 1, 07 1:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Donald Rumsfeld • Department of Defense • Operation Iraqi Freedom • defense secretary • Iraq war

Condi to Stanford Profs:
Lay Off Rummy

Secretary of state scolds faculty for doubting Rummy appointment

Oct 15, 07 7:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Condi wants Stanford profs to lay off Don Rumsfeld and welcome “all views” at the university, Politico reports. She stopped short of praising her old colleague—“I know Don Rumsfeld, he is going to be a challenging presence”—but scolded faculty for doubting Rummy’s appointment as... More »

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Pentagon • Donald Rumsfeld • Condoleezza Rice • professor • Hoover Institution • provost

Blackwater CEO Thick as Thieves With Bush, Christian Right

Prince's ties date to White House internship

Oct 2, 07 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The CEO of embattled Blackwater USA has deep ties to the GOP and the religious right, beginning with a college internship in the first Bush White House. Erik Prince’s security firm's federal contracts have grown from under $1 million in 2001 to over $1 billion today, and he's made... More »

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religious right • Dick Cheney • Donald Rumsfeld • Jerry Falwell • James Dobson • Blackwater • Focus on the Family • George HW Bush • Erik Prince • Family Research Council • Council for National Policy

Fogerty Comes Home on Revival

Or maybe the
CCR frontman
never left

Oct 2, 07 12:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Heartland rock legend John Fogerty is finally reclaiming his Creedence Clearwater Revival youth with an excellent new solo record, aptly titled Revival. The release marks a major turning point in the CCR frontman’s story, as he’s back with original label Fantasy Records and is finally discussing his old... More »

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music • Dick Cheney • Donald Rumsfeld • John Fogerty • Creedence Clearwater Revival • Fantasy Records • Neil Young • music review • George W. Bush

Gates Sketches the Military's Long Haul

Defense sec rules out permanent bases but prepares for decades

Sep 19, 07 11:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Iraq • Donald Rumsfeld • Persian Gulf • Robert Gates

War Has New Symbol: Petraeus

General copes with his transformation into
a political actor

Sep 13, 07 10:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Once untarnishable, David Petraeus is being transformed into a political figure on both sides of the aisle. Supporters of the US Iraq strategy continue to paint him as a savior, while critics compare him to Westmoreland. "Up until this week, it was Rumsfeld's war," a retired lieutenant colonel... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • Democrats • Donald Rumsfeld • troop surge • David Petraeus • Iraq war

Rumsfeld Says He Has
No Regrets

Ex-defense secretary sleeps just fine, thank you; still backs Bush

Sep 10, 07 7:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ever unflappable, Donald Rumsfeld praises progress in Afghanistan, backs his old boss, and tells GQ he has nothing to apologize for in his first interview since his ouster in December. Rummy still exudes the confidence he was known for in office, dismissing questions of guilt in Iraq, saying, "I... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • Bush administration • Abu Ghraib • Donald Rumsfeld

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