Donald Rumsfeld

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MRFF's Response to Rumsfeld Crusade Memos: We Told You So!

Chris Rodda | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion and the Military, Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Department of Defense, Military, Afghanistan, Donald Rumsfeld, Pete Geren, Iraq, Mikey Weinstein, Politics News

The "routine" mixing of "Crusades-like messaging with war imagery" by the Department of Defense has been revealed over and over by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation since 2005.

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Rumsfeld was Bush's Rasputin

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

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Rumsfeld is a smart man, who is familiar with American history, so it wouldn't be fair to accuse him of a senior moment when that whole separation of church and state thing flew out of his head.

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Rumsfeld's Crusade Memos

GQ | Robert Draper | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

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On the morning of Thursday, April 10, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon prepared a top-secret briefing for George W. Bush. This document, known as the ...

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Donald Rumsfeld Loudly Harangued At White House Correspondents' Dinner (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, White House Correspondents Dinner, Donald Rumsfeld, Code Pink, Politics News

This video has been making the rounds, but in case you haven't seen it, here's Donald Rumsfeld getting shouted at by Desiree Fairooz and Medea Benjami...

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The Levin Report Prompts A Second Look At Other Bush-Era Whitewashes

David Fiderer | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Armed Services Committee Report, 60 Minutes, Antonio Taguba, Rachel Maddow, David Brooks, Donald Rumsfeld, Geoffrey Miller, Frank Rich, Seymour Hersh, Carl Levin, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News

The story of Taguba's report reflects a truism applicable to every investigation: When large swaths of information are declared off limits, the resulting work product may be fatally flawed.

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First Snapshots from the First Obama WH Correspondents' Dinner (Photos)

Scott Shrake | Posted 06.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Warren Buffett, Arianna Huffington, Stevie Wonder, Todd Palin, David Corn, Will Arnett, David Brock, Glenn Close, White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, Colin Powell, Kyle MacLachlan, Washington DC, Richard Belzer, Christian Slater, Keith Olbermann, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Jason Bateman, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Matthews, David Shuster, David Gregory, David Axelrod, Michael Steele, Rick Schroeder, Amy Poehler, Donald Rumsfeld, Media News

The mix of Beltway media personalities and Hollywood types was jarring but fun.

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Joe the Plumber is Queer

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

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Time to evolve past Joe the Plumber, past Rush Limbaugh, past the politics and ideology that verge on those that launched the Spanish Inquisition.

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Swine Flu: Who Benefits? And Why?

Patrick Sauer | Posted 06.01.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jews, Ron Howard, Swine Flu, Minutemen, Pandemic, Cdc, Border Fence, Der Wiernerschnitzel, Barack Obama, Tom Hanks, Angels & Demons, Flaming Lips, John Travolta, H1n1, Donald Rumsfeld, Pandemics, Freak-Outs, Comedy News

This conspiracy is bigger than all of us.

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Torture? What About the Crime of Waging Aggressive War?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: " United Nations, Karl Rove, Colin Powell, Downing Street Memo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Torture, Article 51, Ari Fleischer, Nazi Regime, Aggressive War, Condi Rice, Pnac, Paul O'Neill, Dick Cheney, Nuremberg Tribunal, Downing-Street-Memo, Nazis, " Bush Administration, Project for a New American Century, Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, Adolf Hitler, "Message Force Multipliers, International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, "Mission Accomplished, Politics News

In addition to investigating torture as a war crime it is imperative that we also examine the lies and deceit that led the United States to try to remake the politics of the Middle East.

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Torture and Treason

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Treason, Waterboarding, Democrats, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

The question of the moment is now, no longer: Is torture un-American? It is: Are we, as a nation, bigger than our transgressions?

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I Think I Owe Lynndie England an Apology

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

I never thought I would say this, but Lynndie England is a symbol of embarrassment. Not because she posed in pictures following orders, but because our government let her take the fall.

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Ten Ways to Bring the Bush Administration's Torture Ten to Justice (and One Way to Avoid)

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

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It is worrisome that even the most outraged of our leaders inside the beltway are calling only for the familiar bipartisan truth commission to "investigate."

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Crime and Crime Again

Hart Bochner | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

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It will become its own kind of crime if Obama does not set precedent at such a crucial juncture and pursue justice against the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz rat pack.

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I've Written a Play on Torture

Chris Durang | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Carl Levin, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John Yoo Torture, Torture, Politics News

Why would techniques that succeed in getting false confessions have been of use, as opposed to the traditional and successful psychological interrogation techniques that have a history of working?

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Prosecuting Torture: How the Words of Poet WB Yeats Can Help

Lea Lane | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics

The best of us must now show "all conviction" to hold hearings to prosecute those who authorized torture.

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Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Thailand, George W. Bush, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Donald Rumsfeld, Fbi, Steven Bradbury, Dick Cheney, Office of Legal Counsel, Politics, Jay Bybee, Sere, Condoleezza Rice, Vice President Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, R. Scott Shumate, Sleep Deprivation, Cia Music Torture, Colin Powell, Music Torture, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, David Addington, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Jane Mayer, George Tenet, American Torture, Ron Suskind, James Risen, Breaking Politics News, New York Times, Waterboarding, William J. Haynes II, International Committee of the Red Cross, Torture Memos, Torture, World News

For the defendants of the use of torture by U.S. forces -- still led by former Vice President Dick Cheney -- this has been a rocky few weeks.

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FBI Weren't the Only Ones Objecting to Torture in 2002 -- So Did the Army, Marines & Air Force

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marines, Robert Muller, Army, Guantanamo Bay, Jim Haynes, Air Force, Donald Rumsfeld, Navy, Captain Jane Dalton, Richard Myers, Fbi, Torture, Politics News

When Donald Rumsfeld approved "enhanced interrogation techniques" for Guantanamo Bay in 2002, there were already serious objections to the use of torture from the military.

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Rumsfeld on Detainees: "I Stand for 8-10 Hours a Day. Why is Standing Limited to 4 Hours?"

Murray Waas | Posted 12.19.2009 | Politics

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If Rumsfeld had any other thoughts at that historic moment in 2002, thus far, that single one is the only known to have been recorded for posterity.

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Impeach Bybee: The Growing Movement to Unseat Bush Torture Lawyer Turned Federal Judge

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

The UN has indicated that Obama's refusal to prosecute torturers may be a violation of International law.

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Success in Iraq? Think Again.

Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

See, in a world where things aren't connected to other things -- where you get to handle one thing at a time, in a vacuum, at the pace you choose -- maybe you could consider the war in Iraq a success.

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Iraq War's "Iron Anniversary" -- What Good Has Come Out of It?

Jonathan Powers | Posted 04.19.2009 | World

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I was sick to my stomach this last weekend listening to Dick Cheney tell John King that after 6 years in Iraq "we have accomplished nearly everything we set out to do."

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Fired Up: Obama's New Foreign Policy

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Donald Rumsfeld, Russia, Iran, Syria, Obama Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Dmitri Medvedev, World News

For too long, Bush allowed America's foes to dictate events by refusing to engage them. Obama is taking the opposite approach.

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Air America Poll: 90% Want Bush Crimes Investigation

Beau Friedlander | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Air America Bush Poll, Gallup Poll, Bush Crimes Investigation, Air America Poll, Will Bunch, USA Today/Gallup Poll, Halliburton, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Donald Rumsfeld, Enhanced Investigation Techniques, Extrordinary Rendition, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Air America conducted a poll that asked a question raised by Time Magazine's Joe Klein: "Should Obama pardon George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick...

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Brandon Neely, Former Guantanamo Guard, Recalls Systematic Torture, Sexual Abuse Of Detainees

AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Army Pvt. Brandon Neely was scared when he took Guantanamo's first shackled detainees off a bus. Told to expect vicious ...

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Donald Rumsfeld Struggles To Board Bus

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.06.2009 | Media

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One of the unseen costs of Tom Daschle using up all of America's car services is that ordinary war-mongering political has-beens are forced to fend fo...

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