On AlterNet: donald rumsfeld
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "donald rumsfeld"
Ray McGovern, AlterNet. September 21, 2009.
Seven former CIA directors are asking Obama to "reverse Attorney General Holder's August 24 decision to re-open the criminal investigation of CIA interrogations."
Lee Camp, Huffington Post AlterNet: Politics. September 7, 2009.
A National Portrait: Van Jones Edition
Byard Duncan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. July 23, 2009.
Bradley Graham's "By His Own Rules" is an exhaustively researched piece on Rumsfeld. Maybe that's why it's not so great.
Marcy Wheeler, Salon. May 22, 2009.
The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.
Agence France PresseMay 18, 2009.
Rumsfeld displayed the passages over photographs of U.S. forces in Iraq to curry favor with then president George W. Bush.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 29, 2009.
Spain is doing what should be done in the U.S.: Treating these severe crimes as crimes. Human rights lawyers say Obama should follow suit.
Scott Horton, The Daily Beast. April 28, 2009.
Obama insists America must "look forward" on the question of torture and accountability, but we're far from closure.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. April 26, 2009.
If the torture of the first "high-value detainee" was authorized by the Bybee memos, who ordered his torture 18 weeks before they were written?
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 24, 2009.
Amid citizen outrage and news that torture was used to extract a link between Iraq and al Qaeda, Eric Holder won't say if he intends to prosecute.
Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. April 23, 2009.
Donald Rumsfeld defied the recommendations of the Army, the Navy, and the Marines when he approved torture.
Ray McGovern, AlterNet. April 12, 2009.
The stay-out-of-jail pass given to the perpetrators of accumulated evil under Bush is bound to expire.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. March 30, 2009.
Strategists argue that escalating U.S. airstrikes and raids in Pakistan could actually strengthen radical jihadi groups.
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. February 24, 2009.
We need a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute criminal lawyers like John Yoo who gave Bush et al legal cover.
Diane Farsetta, PR Watch. December 8, 2008.
As a consultant for military contractors, retired general and Pentagon pundit Barry McCaffrey is a first-class war profiteer.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. October 7, 2008.
Mere weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration was too busy planning to invade Iraq to follow through on its mission in Afghanistan.
ZP Heller, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. October 3, 2008.
GOOD Magazine's animated look at the ballooning dollar signs.
John Nichols, The Nation. September 12, 2008.
Palin has repeated the long discredited claim that the invasion of Iraq was a necessary response to the September 11th attacks.
Brave New Films, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. July 25, 2008.
A fake horror movie trailer spoofing the current administration.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. July 22, 2008.
A 5 to 4 ruling in the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri legitimizes the president's right to indefinitely imprison "enemy combatants."
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. June 23, 2008.
As Congress pieces together the White House torture program, former Army General Antonio Taguba condemns Bush's "systematic regime of torture."
H. Candace Gorman, In These Times. June 2, 2008.
The American people either don't care about torture -- or else they don't want to hear about it.
Marjorie Cohn, Jurist Legal News and Research. May 13, 2008.
It's not just administration officials who should be targeted for sanctioning torture. The lawyers who advised them should be prosecuted too.
Shark-fu, AngryBlackBitch AlterNet: PEEK. April 16, 2008.
No reason to think it's going to be a very truthful tome.
World NewsOctober 29, 2007.
Anti-torture protesters in France believe that the defense secretary fled over the open border to Germany, where a war crimes case against Rumsfeld was dismissed by a federal court.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 12, 2007.
In this interview, the author of a devastating biography of Donald Rumsfeld covers how the former defense secretary was loathed by the first Bush president and how Rummy layed the groundwork for torture in Gitmo and Iraq.
