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A congressional subcommittee voted Tuesday to subpoena an adviser to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the Bush administration's harsh interrogation policies toward terror detainees.
The Pentagon in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks pursued abusive interrogation techniques once used by North Korea and Vietnam on American POWs despite stern warnings by several military lawyers that the methods were cruel and even illegal, according to a Senate investigation.
A Paris prosecutor has thrown out a complaint against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture in Iraq and at the U.S. military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer for one of the four groups that filed the case said Friday.
The White House on Thursday sympathized with Arab-Americans who took offense to a memo that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wrote saying that "oil wealth has made Muslims averse to physical labor."
American and European rights groups filed a legal complaint in France accusing former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for torture in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay.
Thousands of Stanford University students, faculty and alumni are protesting the conservative Hoover Institution's decision to appoint former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a visiting fellow.
In an interview billed as his first since leaving the top Pentagon post, Donald Rumsfeld calls Afghanistan "a big success," but says U.S. efforts in Iraq are hampered by the failure of Iraq's government to establish a foundation for democracy.
A second retired British general slammed the United States over its Iraq policy, saying in a newspaper interview published Sunday that it had been "fatally flawed."
The word "Iraq" doesn't appear in former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation letter. Neither does the word "war." In fact, the deadly and much-criticized conflict that eventually drummed him out of office, comes up only in vague references, such as "a critical time in our history" and "challenging time for our country," in the four-paragraph, 148-word letter he wrote to President Bush a day before the Nov. 7, 2006 election.
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 as "lamentable."
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday the war in Iraq has been mismanaged for years and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be remembered as one of the worst in history.
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will not have to testify in the trial of five people who occupied a congressman's office to protest the war in Iraq, a judge ruled Friday.
The winds of change swept from the ballot box into the Pentagon on Wednesday and Americans greeted the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with delight, sadness — and a sense it was long overdue.
President Bush was left weakened and more isolated than at any time in his presidency by Tuesday's Democratic thumping of Republicans. He offered Democrats gestures of reconciliation — and capitulated to demands for Donald H. Rumsfeld's removal — but history suggests his last two years will be filled with more confrontation and challenges.
A week ago President Bush said he wanted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to remain in his administration until the end. On Wednesday, he said Rumsfeld was leaving. Here's a look at what Bush said last Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press and others, and what he said a day after the election.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stepped down as defense secretary on Wednesday, one day after midterm elections in which opposition to the war in Iraq contributed to heavy Republican losses.
Retired military officers on Monday bluntly accused Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld of bungling the war in Iraq, saying U.S. troops were sent to fight without the best equipment and that critical facts were hidden from the public.
Democrat after Democrat took to the Senate floor on Wednesday calling for President Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, but Republicans gave a spirited defense and headed off a no-confidence vote.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, attacked by fellow Democrats as being too close to the White House on the Iraq War, on Sunday called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign but said the United States cannot "walk away" from the Iraqis.
The soldier who triggered the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal by sending incriminating photos to military investigators says he feared deadly retaliation by other GIs and was shocked when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld mentioned his name at a Senate hearing.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday called on Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to resign, hours after excoriating him at a public hearing over what she called "failed policy" in Iraq.
Deep within the Pentagon, they're trying to piece together a picture of an Iraqi civil war. What would it look like? Donald Rumsfeld asks.
The White House was eager to protect its ability to gather foreign intelligence. Congress was eager to rein in executive power. What sounds like a new debate over the president's ability to eavesdrop without warrants occurred 30 years ago.
Leaked documents reveal Tony Blair cover-up over Iraq invasionMilitary commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair's government's attempts to mislead the public.
Iraq war probe ready to name and blame, says chairmanThe former Whitehall mandarin heading the long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war has said his team will not shrink from criticising Tony Blair and other senior government figures if they are found to be at fault.
Karl Rove memoir coming in MarchThe memoir by the mastermind of George W. Bush's two successful White House campaigns, titled "Courage and Consequence," will be released March 9 by a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster that has published a best seller by Glenn Beck.
Gitmo interrogations spark battle over tacticsSpeaking publicly for the first time, senior U.S. law enforcement investigators say they waged a long but futile battle inside the Pentagon to stop coercive and degrading treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. MSNBC.com's Bill Dedman reports.
12 Monkeys and Swine flu: Warning shotIt is scandal he said to Spiegel, 'the health authorities have fallen for a campaign from the pharmaceutical companies, who simply want to earn money with an alleged threat'.
The Afghan Imperative - David Brooks New York Times Op-Ed ColumnistAlways there is the illusion of the easy path. Always there is the illusion, which gripped Donald Rumsfeld and now grips many Democrats, that you can fight a counterinsurgency war with a light footprint, with cruise missiles, with special forces operations and unmanned drones.
George Bush never watched the news and Donald Rumsfeld wanted to edit his own Wikipedia page, says former speechwriter Why am I not surprised at the inside look provided by former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer in his new book: Speech Less: Tales of a White House Survivor?
Conservatism Is Dead!Digging deep into the roots and evolution of the American conservative movement, Sam Tanenhaus talks with Bill Moyers about why he believes that conservatism is dead and how it might yet come back to life.
Bush Official Admits Plot to Raise Phony Terror Scare to Steal Election Tom Ridge, the first secretary of homeland security, asserts in a new book that he was pressured by top advisers to President George W. Bush to raise the national threat level just before the 2004 election in what he suspected was an effort to influence the vote. Mr.
Tom Ridge, the former chief of the Department of Homeland Security, has claimed in his new book that he was pressured to raise the terror alert level in 2004 to improve the Bush administration's political fortunes at a time when Bush was fighting for re-election amidst rising un …
With a Colleague's Book Due Out, Ex-Bushies Play Out the Ritual of AnxietyThere's a growing nervousness these days among former Bush White House officials, Pentagon folks and some senators about what, precisely, is in a book coming out in September by Matt Latimer, former speechwriter to George W.
The Poetry of D.H. RumsfeldAn oldie but a goodie. A sampling of the work of American poet, Donald Rumsfeld, including his highly acclaimed verse, "The Unknown."
Robert McNamara died today. He was the architect of the Vietnam war as Donald Rumsfeld was the architect of the Iraq war. This I think gives us some time for a little introspection regarding American foreign policy as it applied to Vietnam and today applies to Iraq.
Theocracy and Its Discontents We are watching the fall of Islamic theocracy in Iran. I don't mean by this that the Iranian regime is about to collapse. It may—I certainly hope it will—but repressive regimes can stick around for a long time.
Katrina Revisited... I'm reluctant to highlight just one anecdote from Robert Draper's GQ piece on Donald Rumsfeld, because there's an awful lot of information in the article that deserves to be read, but the story about Rumsfeld during the Hurricane Katrina crisis is remarkable.
Op-Ed Columnist - Maureen Dowd - Cheney Grabs a Third TermDick and Rummy are at Cafe Milano in Georgetown, holding court. The maître d' fawns. Waiters hover. Tourists snap pics on their digital cameras. Cable chatterers stop by to ingratiate themselves. It isn't so much that Dick and Rummy are back. It's that they never left.
A Katrina mystery explainedExcerpt: ""One of the many mysteries during the week of Katrina was the absence of military help. I picked up on this in the column I wrote during that time: Even military resources in the right place weren't ordered into action.""
IG Report: Waterboarding Was Neither "Efficacious Or Medically Safe"A CIA inspector general's report from May 2004 that is set to be declassified by the Obama White House will almost certainly disprove claims that waterboarding was only used in controlled circumstances with effective results.
"The United States was not the first country in the last hundred years to occupy Iraq" wrote Joel Rayburn in the March/April 2006 edition of Foreign Affairs.
This article is not going to discuss the morality of torture. Why? Because most of the people that support the use of torture in extracting humint (human intelligence) that even suspect someone of opposing torture on moral grounds reacts thusly:
Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida linkWASHINGTON — The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, according to a former senior U.S.
It is pretty straightforward... President Bush, Vice President Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales were all intimately involved in the decisionmaking process to go ahead with what amounts to torture.
EDITORIAL: Power, humiliation and torture In the wake of 9/11, no phrase more succinctly projected the upwelling of popular jingoism across the United States than the words "Power of Pride."
There have been calls from the most strident opponents of the Bush administration since 2003 for certain members of that administration to be charged with and tried for war crimes. From that point to the present, the calls have gotten louder and come from more people.
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