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Donald Rumsfeld: WikiLeaks Documents Vindicate Bush Administration
Bin Laden's Fatal Mistake:
He Didn't Read WikiLeaks
donald rumsfeld
May 13, 2011 1:34 PM CDT

Bin Laden's Fatal Mistake: He Didn't Read WikiLeaks

Leaked documents mentioned Abbottabad: Donald Rumsfeld

(Newser) - Maybe Osama bin Laden should have had his hideaway hooked up with Internet access: He might have saved his own neck by reading WikiLeaks files. The unusual assertion comes from none other than Donald Rumsfeld, who notes in a Washington Post op-ed that leaked classified files from Gitmo "contain...

Cheney Praises Obama on bin Laden Mission
 Cheney Praises 
 Obama on 
 bin Laden 
 Mission 
sunday talk shows
May 8, 2011 11:10 AM CDT

Cheney Praises Obama on bin Laden Mission

But he's worried we've stopped waterboarding suspects

(Newser) - President Obama got rare praise from Dick Cheney today, as the former VP lauded the Osama decision on Fox News Sunday, reports Politico . "You’ve got to give him a lot of credit," said Cheney. "I give him high marks for making that decision." But Cheney...

Bin Laden Intel May Have Come From Gitmo: Rumsfeld

Former defense secretary notes that detainees could have tipped US off

(Newser) - Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld thinks the controversial Guantanamo Bay military prison may deserve some credit for Osama bin Laden's death. The new intelligence that allowed the US to find bin Laden "very well could have been partly a result of the interviews that took place at Guantanamo,...

Rumsfeld to Obama: Hey, Wars Have Consequences

He also faults president for having an unclear mission

(Newser) - Glass houses, alert: Donald Rumsfeld thinks the US intervention in Libya—or at least the way President Obama is going about it—is misguided. The former defense chief tells Politico that President Obama has presented a muddled set of goals, resulting in an unclear mission. The problem involves the international...

Jon Stewart Challenges Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq War
 Stewart No Match for Rumsfeld 
Feb 24, 2011 6:02 AM CST

Stewart No Match for Rumsfeld

Host comes up empty as Rumsfeld keeps cool

(Newser) - Donald Rumsfeld appeared on the Daily Show last night to promote his new book—and Jon Stewart had his fists raised, ready to challenge him on the Iraq war. But Stewart seemed unable to land a lethal blow, despite focusing on the administration’s attempts to “sell” the war,...

Donald Rumsfeld on Osama bin Laden: He Would Have Gone to Guantanamo

 Rumsfeld: I 
 Would Have 
 Sent Osama 
 to Gitmo 
TALK SHOW ROUNDUP
Feb 20, 2011 11:11 AM CST

Rumsfeld: I Would Have Sent Osama to Gitmo

But defense secretary wouldn't have gone to visit

(Newser) - If the US had ever come up with Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda honcho would likely have headed straight to Gitmo: “He’d probably be subjected to a military commission,” Donald Rumsfeld told CNN today. But the defense secretary says he wouldn't have visited: "No. He's not...

Female Vets Sue Pentagon Over Sex Abuse

Lawsuit says rape is rampant, but ignored by commanders

(Newser) - Seventeen current and former service members, all but two of them female, have filed a class-action lawsuit against the military alleging that systemic sexual abuse is rampant among the troops but ignored by commanders. "There are three types of women in the Army,” one of the female victims...

Cheney, Rumsfeld Booed at CPAC

Ron Paul supporters clash with Bush supporters

(Newser) - The divisions in the Republican Party came into sharp relief last night when Donald Rumsfeld received the “Defenders of the Constitution” award—only to be booed lustily by Ron Paul supporters, many of whom stood up and left the room in protest, CBS News reports. The clamor grew even...

Rumsfeld on Iraq's WMDs: OK, So We 'Misstated'

Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were only 'suspected,' he concedes

(Newser) - You know those weapons of mass destruction that triggered the US war on Iraq? Their existence, which turned out to be nonexistent, was only "suspected," Donald Rumsfeld has finally admitted in his new book, Known and Unknown . OK, so "I made a misstatement," he says. At...

Rumsfeld: I Wish Bush Had Let Me Leave Earlier
Rumsfeld: I Wish Bush
Had Let Me Leave Earlier
MEMOIR PREVIEW
Feb 3, 2011 12:32 PM CST

Rumsfeld: I Wish Bush Had Let Me Leave Earlier

Memoir unapologetic, but he wishes president accepted resignation in '04

(Newser) - Reviewers have gotten an early peek at Donald Rumsfeld's memoir, Known and Unknown, with the Washington Post and New York Times noting these highlights:
  • Biggest regret: Not insisting that President Bush accept his resignation after the Abu Ghraib allegations in 2004. He says the abuse was the work of rogue
...

Bush Considered Dumping Cheney in '04

President 'wanted to show who was in charge,' he writes in 'Decision Points'

(Newser) - George Bush seriously considered ditching Dick Cheney for the 2004 election, he writes in his memoir, Decision Points. Cheney offered to step aside and Bush—seeking "to demonstrate I was in charge"—explored the possibility of replacing him with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist before deciding to ask...

Abu Ghraib Victims Have Yet to See Payments From US

Rumsfeld had pledged in 2004 to compensate the abused

(Newser) - In 2004, a defensive Donald Rumsfeld told Congress that he had found a legal way to compensate Iraqi detainees who suffered "grievous and brutal abuse and cruelty at the hands of a few members of the United States armed forces." He continued, "It's the right thing to...

Coming Soon: Rumsfeld, Uncensored

 Coming Soon: 
 Rumsfeld, 
 Uncensored 
Memoirs
Sep 20, 2010 5:06 PM CDT

Coming Soon: Rumsfeld, Uncensored

You go to press with the book you have, not the book they want you to have

(Newser) - Donald Rumsfeld is going to add another title to his lengthy resume: Author. And it's not likely to be some whitewashed version of his controversial oversight of the Iraq war, but rather the two-time defense secretary's very blunt take, notes Ben Smith on Politico. Proof? When Known and Unknown...

Bush Official: We Knew Gitmo Inmates Were Innocent

New document claims releasing them was seen as 'politically impossible'

(Newser) - The Bush White House knew that hundreds of early Gitmo detainees were innocent, but refused to release them because the admission would weaken support for the war in Iraq, according to a new document obtained by the Times of London . The charge, by Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Secretary...

Chicago Outfit Readies Limbaugh Musical

Second City comedy troupe's kicks off Feb. 3

(Newser) - Chicago’s famed Second City comedy outfit might have just the cure for your winter blues (or reds, depending on how you tend to vote): Rush Limbaugh! The Musical. Opening next week, it will take “back to Rush’s humble beginnings and follows his ascent to conservative dominance buoyed...

Top Quotes of the '00s
 Top Quotes of the '00s 
best of the decade
Jan 2, 2010 2:50 PM CST

Top Quotes of the '00s

'Bring 'em on' from George Bush makes the list

(Newser) - David Sirota culls the top 10 quotes of the decade that speak to the nation's shortcomings. See the full list at Salon here . A sampling:
  • "It doesn't matter." Dick Cheney, 2006, when asked about polls showing a majority of Americans opposed the Iraq war. It's a "sign
...

Army Historians Fault Early Afghan War Strategy

Forces were undermanned, and planning was shoddy

(Newser) - The US missed out on chances to stabilize Afghanistan early in the war because it devoted too few troops and too little planning to the conflict, write Army historians in an official chronicle of the conflict. "It should have become clear” in late 2003 “that the coalition presence...

Nevada Gambler Conned CIA With al-Qaeda Claims

Agents swallowed claim man could decode hidden messages

(Newser) - A Nevada software developer with a serious gambling problem fooled the CIA and the Bush White House into believing he had the key to al-Qaeda codes. Dennis Montgomery convinced agents that news network al-Jazeera was broadcasting hidden message on terror targets within the US that only he could decode, investigative...

Bush Team Blew Chance to Nab Osama
 Bush Team 
 Blew Chance 
 to Nab Osama  
John Kerry
Dec 8, 2009 1:30 PM CST

Bush Team Blew Chance to Nab Osama

Al-Qaeda leader was at Tora Bora, but Rumsfeld let him get away

(Newser) - The Bush administration had a golden opportunity to capture Osama bin Laden in December of 2001, and it didn’t even try, writes John Kerry. The historical record is by now crystal clear: bin Laden and his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, were trapped at Tora Bora—bin Laden even wrote...

White House Piles on Rummy Over Afghan Troop Gripe

'You go to war with the defense sec you have'

(Newser) - Donald Rumsfeld would prefer President Obama not disparage the previous administration by suggesting it ignored troop requests by US commanders in Afghanistan, as he did in Tuesday’s speech. That’s a “bald misstatement,” the former defense secretary says in a statement. “At least as it pertains...

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