For a few months after his departure as Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld occupied a suite of government-provided transition offices in a high-ris...
Nick Turse | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
While times are tough for most Americans, one group is doing remarkably well. For former members of the Bush administration, the economic outlook remains bright and jobs are seemingly plentiful.
Anne Dunev | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.
The Washington Post | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Face time with the president is political gold in Washington, so Donald Rumsfeld moved quickly after taking charge at the Pentagon to secure weekly pr...
Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
In terms of actual policy measures, President Obama and his foreign policy team have not taken any steps to reverse or mitigate the hostile policies their predecessors put into effect against Iran.
Eric Alterman | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media
Crossposted with the Center for American Progress Eric Alterman, Danielle Ivory Former President George W. Bush recently mused with the press about...
Jon Soltz | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
For decades, the conventional wisdom was that the Republican Party was the party of the military. However, as Republicans have abandoned ideals that make our military strong, big names now support Democrats.
Online Journal | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics
The first time Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld pressured the CIA to mislead Congress was in 1975 and 1976, when Cheney was chief of staff to President...
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
For all of the suspicion and projection upon her, Speaker Pelosi is really like a mom making her kids behave politely at a fancy restaurant.
Judith Ellis | Posted 06.22.2009 | Business
Brooks and his ilk also like to pretend that there is some big separation between government and big business when in reality they have been in bed for years.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Bush proved that the blurring of the line that separates Church and State is not only unconstitutional, it is also wholly dysfunctional.
New Majority | David Frum | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
Robert Draper's GQ account of fingerpointing by former Bush officials against Donald Rumsfeld is the media story of the week. Yet a quick tour of the ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
One of the ironic things about Maureen Dowd's last, infamous column is that at first glance, people were struck by the sudden emergence of intelligenc...
Posted 06.20.2009 | Comedy
The news that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld used cover pages with religious quotes and war imagery when passing information to Presiden...
Patrick Sauer | Posted 06.19.2009 | Comedy
GQ broke the story that Rumsfeld used cover sheets juxtaposing Bible quotes and war imagery for the top-secret intelligence briefings, but did you know he also rewrote the words to Bush's favorite hymns?
Politico | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
An aide to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Keith Urbahn, e-mails to contest a widely-discussed GQ article by Robert Draper, which suggested ...
Jeff Norman | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
Mere willingness to insult Donald Rumsfeld to his face is not a great accomplishment. It trivializes his alleged crimes to showily spew inane jargon.
AP | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Monday it no longer includes a Bible quote on the cover page of daily intelligence briefings it sends to the Whit...
Jeff Norman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
Many activists are more concerned with feeling good about themselves than being effective.
David Fiderer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
When new revelations emerge, the Republicans' credibility takes new hits. That's why GQ's reporting on Rumsfeld is damning to Susan Collins, who spearheaded the Senate's sham investigation of the Katrina disaster.
Disgrasian | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
They used to put Scripture like this on t-shirts in my Southern Baptist youth group, to get us kids pumped about spending the first week of summer, the first taste of freedom...quietly studying the Bible.
Jon Soltz | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
As someone who still has friends over in Iraq and Afghanistan, it boils my blood to think that insurgents and terrorists now have something else to show around as "proof" that America is "fighting a war on Islam."
Chris Rodda | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics
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.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics
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.
GQ | Robert Draper | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics
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 ...
TIME | Brad Graham | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics