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8 Nov, 2006 4:53 am
... , appropriate interrogation methods under the Geneva Convention, etc. A new Secretary of Defense may approach these issues in a different way. (Also, even though Secretary
Rumsfeld is not a lawyer, back in 1982 he served as Presidential Envoy on the Law of the Sea Treaty. And as everyone knows, maritime law is the
bomb.) GOP Says Rumsfeld Stepping Down [Associated Press] Donald H. Rumsfeld bio [U.S. Department of Defense]
9 Nov, 2006 9:06 pm
... to get rid of Donald Rumsfeld. President Bush was moving by late summer toward removing
Donald H. Rumsfeld as defense secretary, people inside and outside the White House said
Thursday. Weeks before Election Day, the essential question ... the move. Mr. Bush ultimately postponed action until after the election in part because of concern that to remove Mr.
Rumsfeld earlier could be interpreted by critics as political opportunism or as ratifying their criticism of the White House war plan in the
heart ...
28 Mar, 2007 9:40 am
... Dismisses Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld cannot be tried on allegations of torture in overseas military prisons, a federal judge
said Tuesday in a case he described ... F. Hogan threw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of nine former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said Rumsfeld cannot be held personally responsible for actions taken in connection with his government job." And Reuters reports that "Judge ...
8 Dec, 2006 1:03 pm
"Judge Weighs Torture Claim Vs. Rumsfeld": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "A federal judge on Friday appeared reluctant to
give Donald H. Rumsfeld immunity from torture allegations, yet said it would be unprecedented
to let the departing defense secretary face a civil trial."
15 Nov, 2006 4:42 am
AP VIA BALTIMORE SUN: "BERLIN // Lawyers for inmates of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba asked German prosecutors yesterday to open a war crimes investigation of
outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other officials for their alleged roles in
abuse at the U.S. detention centers. "We are not expecting that Rumsfeld will appear in a court, but we are hoping investigators will begin
looking into the case," said Wolfgang Kaleck, a German lawyer..
11 Dec, 2008 9:44 pm
"Bipartisan Report: Rumsfeld Responsible for Detainee Abuse; Senate Committee Finds Officials Made Decisions That Led to Offenses Against
Prisoners." The Washington Post has a news update that begins, "A bipartisan Senate report released today says that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials are directly responsible for abuses of
detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and charges that decisions by ...
13 Dec, 2008 10:04 pm
December 12, 2008, NY Times Report Blames Rumsfeld for Detainee Abuses By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON - A report released Thursday
by leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee said top Bush administration officials, including Donald H. Rumsfeld,...
8 Nov, 2006 10:15 am
If this AP report is correct, then the midterms have claimed another big loser: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, architect of an unpopular war in Iraq, intends to resign after six stormy years at the Pentagon, Republican officials said...
5 Dec, 2006 12:40 pm
From the NY Times: text of a classified Nov. 6 memorandum that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sent to the White House suggesting new options in Iraq. The memorandum was sent one day before the midterm Congressional elections and two...
9 Jan 6:04 am
... approved or committed war crimes is currently being prepared. While the complaint is in preparation, the Steering Committee of the Justice Robert H. Jackson Conference is
issuing this preliminary memorandum setting forth several of the points to be presented more extensively in the ... Bush, Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, Tim Flanigan,
Lewis Libby, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, Stephen Cambone, John Ashcroft, Michael
Chertoff, Michael Dunlavey, Geoffrey Miller, ...
18 May 12:25 am
GQ yesterday published a long article critical of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. One of
the things it disclosed for the first time was Rumsfeld's practice of often placing Biblical verses on the cover sheet of the top secret ...
inappropriate, Shaffer politely informed them that the practice would continue, because "my seniors"-JCS chairman Richard Myers, Rumsfeld, and
the commander in chief himself-appreciated the cover pages. [Thanks to Scott Mange for the lead.] UPDATE: New York ...
22 Sep, 2007 12:55 am
From the New York Times via Volokh, protests have broken out at Stanford University against appointment of Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary, as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. As David Bernstein wryly notes, [W]ith regard to ...
do... We've never protested before but this seems to be egregious." Ah, the voice of reason. I guess, say, George Schultz is just "any fascist," but Rumsfeld is an egregious one. The protests at Stanford are designed to express ...
22 Apr 5:30 am
... former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the interrogation issue said that Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld demanded that intelligence agencies and interrogators find evidence of al Qaida-Iraq collaboration... Cheney and
Rumsfeld, ... Sheik Mohammed 183 times in March 2003 - according to a newly released Justice Department document. ..."Cheney's and
Rumsfeld's people were told repeatedly, by CIA . . . and by others, that there wasn't any reliable intelligence that ...
1 Sep, 2006 7:25 pm
... lede than one that appears on Rumsfeld reaches out to Democrats by ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY. She writes "Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld reached out to Democrats late Friday, opening up the door for them to retract their
stinging indictment of him as Pentagon chief." The clear sense of this opening is that Rumsfeld has performed a gracious action, kindly
allowing the Democrats to return to the path reason, away from some horrid corner they have painted ...
17 Oct, 2007 6:51 am
... , Va. He is the most senior war commander of a string of retired officers who have harshly criticized the administration's conduct of the war. While much of the previous
condemnation has been focused on the role of former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld,
General Sanchez's was an unusually broad attack on the overall course of the war.'" Regardless of General Sanchez's motives, this is yet another repudiation of ...
6 Dec, 2007 6:53 am
... that are pissing people off: Enlarge This ImageJim Kempner Fine Art Vice President Dick Cheney in "Line Up" by Ligorano/Reese, at the New York Public Library. Enlarge This ImageJim
Kempner Fine Art Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former secretary of defense, in "Line Up." Any ideas,
Scott Ehrisman? Technorati Tags: Jim Kempner, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, New York Public Library,
art, political satire, Line Up, Ligorano/Reese Powered by ScribeFire. [where: New ...
1 Nov, 2006 6:06 pm
You're doing a heck of a job Rummy: President Bush reaffirmed his support for two of the most polarizing figures in his administration today, saying he wanted Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld as well as Vice President Dick Cheney to remain until the end of his
presidency. The president's verbal embrace of Mr. Rumsfeld and Mr. Cheney, offered during an interview with The Associated Press, seemed to be
another reflection of Mr. Bush's belief in the ...
7 Jun, 2007 10:43 am
... who spoke on condition that he not be named for fear of alienating his new boss. "But he's still from the same people who brought you the Iraq war, the same people who brought you
Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld. There's immediate jaundice about his country of origin. Any
American appointed by this president would carry that stigma."" Peter S. Goodman, Bush to Pick Zoelleck for World Bank, Washington Post, May 30, 2007. Peter S. ...
4 Sep, 2007 11:02 am
... as draft of the order to top Pentagon officials and discussed it "several times" with Donald H. Rumsfeld, then secretary of defense. … On Monday, Mr. Bremer made it clear that he was ... May 9, shortly before he departed for his new post in Baghdad, to
Mr. Rumsfeld and other top Pentagon officials. Among others who received the draft order, ... the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mr. Bremer said that
he had briefed Mr. Rumsfeld on the plan "several times," and that his top security adviser in Baghdad, Walter B ...
17 Nov, 2006 6:07 am
... after Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, the Army chief of staff at the time, told Congress that several hundred thousand troops would be needed. His testimony was derided by Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld, and the general was ostracized at the Pentagon before his retirement a few
months later. "General ... What is Abizaid saying really? I think he is saying any chance we had was blow by Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz when they
didn't listen to Shinseki. His new initiaitve is just window ...
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