Donald Rumsfeld

Record-Breaking Administration: 935 False Statements in Two Years

Omid Memarian | Posted 02.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, Bush Lies, Jeff Cohen, High Ranking Official, Condoleezza Rice, Center for Public Integrity, Dick Cheney, Phil Donahue, Media News
Omid Memarian

There are grave consequences when a faction of mainstream media becomes part of an administration's propaganda machine; conversely, fighting for truth and maintaining journalistic integrity has its price as well.

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Donald Rumsfeld's Soft Side

John Brown | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Intelligence, New US Information Agency, Cia, Don Rumsfeld, Politics News
John Brown

The former Defense Secretary isn't known for believing in public diplomacy. So why is he calling for a new US information agency?

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Obama In 2001: Rumsfeld Is In The Mainstream

ABC News | JAKE TAPPER | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rumsfeld Obama, 2008 Campaign, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Obama 2008, Politics News

It was January 17, 2001, and Illinois state senator Barack Obama was on WTTW11's "Chicago Tonight." Discussing his opposition to Attorney General nom...

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Campaign 2008: Will Torture Be on the Menu?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: CIA Terror Interrogation Tapes Destroyed, Jose Rodriguez, CIA Videotapes, Antonin Scalia, Guantanamo, Donald Rumsfeld, Haditha, Military Commissions Act, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

Will the presidential candidates be made to account for their position on waterboarding, torture, capital punishment, extraordinary rendition, and prisoner abuse?

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Bush's Greatest Military Success, And Why He is Hiding It

Hal Donahue | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Injured Soldiers, Atul Gawande, George W. Bush, Walter Reed Closing, Donald Rumsfeld, Brownie, Tenant, David Chu, Walter Reed, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Hal Donahue

The military serving at Walter Reed were and are wildly successful and the number of combat injured who died fell from 25% to 10%. Their reward for this achievement? The entire team is being dismantled.

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William Kristol Gets a Promotion? You've Gotta Be Kidding!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.31.2007 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Bush-Cheney, Karl Rove, Kenneth Starr, Paul Wolfowitz, William Kristol, Scooter Libby, Bill Kristol NYT, Bill Kristol, Bill Kristol New York Times, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

People in power must really like what Mr. Kristol has to say to catapult him to the nation's "paper of record" so he can spew his vitriol and contempt for democracy.

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Don't Start Without Me

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush Musharraf, Missing White House Emails, Michael Hayden, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, Robert Gates, Bush World War III, Us Aid to Pakistan, Non-Proliferation Treaty, Michael Mukasey, Donald Rumsfeld, Enhanced Interrogations, Videogate, Nie Iran Report, Presidential Records Act, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

The egregious redactions and erasures made by Bush are not only in violation of the Presidential Records Act, they are an effront to Congress, the Constitution, and international law.

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How Can We Have 'High Confidence' About Anything in Iran?

Lionel Beehner | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iran Revolutionary Guard, National Intelligence Estimate, War With Iran, Quds Force, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iran War, Hillary Clinton, John Negroponte, Nie Iran Report, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Lionel Beehner

As Rumsfeld might have put it, we have to approach states like Iran with the intelligence we have, not the intelligence we want.

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Bird Flu Drugs Are For Bird Brains

Doug Bremner | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Bird Flu, Bush Administration, Tamiflu, George W. Bush, Politics News
Doug Bremner

Here's a little virology 101. Bird flu is transmitted from birds to birds, not birds to humans. Actual human infections are pretty rare.

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The GOP Iraq War: Follow the Money

Dan Agin | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Surge, Department of Defense, Private Contractors, Donald Rumsfeld, Bush Iraq, Iraq Contractors, Iraq War Funding, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda, Iraq War, Iraq Veterans, Iraq War Contractors, Halliburton, Private Security Contractors, Iraq, Darth Vader, National Institutes of Health, Politics News
Dan Agin

That $475 billion for the Grand Old Party Iraq War did not get burned up in a bonfire, it just moved into the private bank accounts of defense contractor and subcontractor executives and shareholders.

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The Venezuela Paradox: Why Chavez's Defeat is a Victory for Chavez and a Defeat for the Opposition

Katie Halper | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Fair Elections, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Keith Olbermann, Fidel Castro, Geraldo Rivera, Politics News
Katie Halper

According to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, the defeat of Chavez's reforms "bodes well" for "freedom and liberty." If Perino means it bodes well...

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Experience that Counts

Sam Sedaei | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Wolf Blitzer Debate, Obama Indonesia, John Edwards Experience, Hillary Clinton Iowa, Barack Obama Iowa, Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld Experience, Cheney Experience, Washington Post/Abc News Poll, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Hillary Failed Healthcare, Obama Change, National Intelligence Estimate, John Edwards, Hillary Iran, Hillary Clinton, Zogby Poll, Hillary Experience, Wolf Blitzer, Clinton Likability, Clinton Polarizing, Hillary 1st Lady, Hillary Clinton Kyl-Lieberman, Politics News
Sam Sedaei

Clinton's experience in foreign policy is limited to flying to countries, getting picked up at airports and dining with officials in mansions, none of which involved meaningful contact with ordinary people.

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What's That Sound? Why It's the Further Lowering of the Bar on Iraq

Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.25.2007 | Politics

Read More: Long Hard Slog, Ryan Crocker, Iraq Spin, Iraq Surge Results, Success of the Surge, Iraq Surge, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, New York Times, War in Iraq, Lowering of Expectations for Iraq, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Instead of actual political progress the new goal in Iraq is convincing everyone political progress is being made. Read More Fear of Faith Without faith in a higher order and the existence of something outside ourselves and our everyday lives, life can become emotionally unbearable and filled with fear. Read More Karl Rove's Shameless, Remorseless, Soulless Attempt to Rewrite History Rove now claims that the White House had been "opposed" to holding the Iraq war vote just prior to the 2002 elections because "we thought it made it too political." Too political? For Karl Rove? That's like saying something was too bloody for Count Dracula. Read More

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White House Gives Up On Real Political Progress In Iraq

The New York Times | STEVEN LEE MYERS and ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 11.24.2007 | Home

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, Warwire, Long Hard Slog, Iraq, Ryan Crocker, Home News

With American military successes outpacing political gains in Iraq, the Bush administration has lowered its expectation of quickly achieving major ste...

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For Your Wishlist: Talking Donald Rumsfeld Doll

Firedoglake | Posted 11.23.2007 | Politics

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Got just the thing: It's a 12-inch "Rummy" doll that looks vaguely like him and features bits of his historic news conferences that you can play just ...

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Smells Like Desperation, Michael Rubin

Trita Parsi | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, Iran, National Iranian American Council, Michael Rubin, War With Iran, Politics News
Trita Parsi

Michael Rubin must really be scared. Actually the whole neocon establishment must be, as they've recently pulled out big guns to attack my organization.

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If You're "Right," Being Wrong Doesn't Matter

Myriam Miedzian and Gary Ferdman | Posted 11.14.2007 | Media

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Political Hypocrisy, Right-Wing Media, Media Bias, Right-Wingers, Media News
Myriam Miedzian and Gary Ferdman

For conservative hawks, as far as the media and academia are concerned, being disastrously wrong rarely has disastrous consequences for their careers.

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The Grammar of Politics

Bill Katovsky | Posted 11.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Rudy Giuliani, Joe Biden, Frank Rich, Stephen Colbert, Rush Limbaugh, Compassionate Conservative, Nancy Pelosi, Kucinich UFO, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, General Petraeus, Larry Craig, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Politics News
Bill Katovsky

Homonym x Lie= Larry Craig, Personal pronoun + Intransitive verb + Iraq = George W. Bush, Proper noun + Auxiliary verb - House of Representatives = Nancy Pelosi's Leadership

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A War Pitched with a 'Curve Ball'

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.06.2007 | Home

Read More: Saddam Hussein, Colin Powell, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Impeachment, 60 Minutes, Rafid Ahmed Alwan, Donald Rumsfeld, Curve Ball, Bush Adminstration, Home News
Jim Wallis

Watch 60 Minutes from Sunday night or read the story. It revealed the results of a two-year investigation into the source of the key piece of informat...

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Revealed: Rumsfeld Memos Discussed Need To "Keep Elevating The Threat," "Link Iraq To Iran"

Washington Post | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld Snowflakes, Rumsfeld Iran, Politics News

n a series of internal musings and memos to his staff, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that Muslims avoid "physical labor" and wrote ...

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Rumsfeld Hit With Torture Complaint While Visiting Paris

New York Times | DOREEN CARVAJAL | Posted 10.26.2007 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Donald Rumsfeld, Human Rights Abuses, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

Several human rights organizations based in the United States and Europe have filed a complaint in a Paris court accusing the former defense secretary...

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There Must Be 50 Ways to Say They're Sorry....

Tom Alderman | Posted 10.26.2007 | Media

Read More: Paris Hilton, Mistakes Were Made, Donald Rumsfeld, Celebrity Apologies, How to Apologize, Larry Craig, Air Force, Air Force Nuclear Warheads, Public Apology, Apologies, Hugh Grant, John Edwards, Hugh Grant Prostitute, Alberto Gonzales, Marion Jones, Celebrities, Media News
Tom Alderman

We need a Sorry Guide to the various apology life forms alive in the media. Many of them seem to fall into a set of basic categories.

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The Afghan Teenager Put Forward for Trial by Military Commission at Guantánamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.17.2007 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Child Prisoners, Mohamed Jawad, Children in Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Dozens of teenagers - some as young as 12 or 13 - have been held in Guantánamo over the years, but until now Khadr was the only one to face a trial.

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Rice Defends Rumsfeld's Appointment To Stanford University

ABC News | JONATHAN KARL | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, Stanford University, Politics News

Condoleezza Rice often clashed with Donald Rumsfeld when he was secretary of defense. But now Rice is sticking up for him in a battle with students an...

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Young Army Scholars Increasingly Critical Of Iraq War

New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 10.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq War, U.S. Army, Politics News

Here at the intellectual center of the United States Army, two elite officers were deep in debate at lunch on a recent day over who bore more responsi...

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