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  • Rumsfeld, Cheney Trade Shots, Charm Podesta: D.C. Scene

    “Obviously, I get to speak first since I was the best secretary of defense,” joked former Vice President Dick Cheney, while introducing Donald Rumsfeld at a book party last night.

  • Bush’s Campaign to Be Seen as Another Truman

    The dedication this week of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum was more than an opportunity for the five living U.S. presidents to compare notes on what Stefan Lorant called “the glorious burden” of the office.

  • Obama Is Flying Blind on Drones

    As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama was unsparing in his criticism of President George W. Bush’s anti-terrorism policies. He condemned torture and the infamous detention center at Guantanamo Bay, the lack of transparency and congressional oversight, the dubious legal framework and the blowback that was spawning more terrorists and diminishing U.S. standing in the world.

  • Review: Rumsfeld Comes Out Jabbing, Has No Regrets for Abu Ghraib, WMDs

    Donald Rumsfeld is back. Four years after being ousted from his job as secretary of defense, he has produced a memoir, “ Known and Unknown ,” which covers a lot of ground, most notably his own backside.

  • Hagel Says Budget Cutbacks Offer Chance to Pare Weapons

    Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the Pentagon must use defense budget cuts as an opportunity to excise waste, reexamine weapons systems and reorganize 30-year- old command structures.

  • Rumsfeld ‘Disappointed’ Obama Hasn’t Done More to Boot Quaddafi

    Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he’s “disappointed” in how the Obama administration handled the early stage of the Libya crisis and called on the White House to work with other countries to “encourage” Muammar Qaddafi ’s overthrow.

  • Rumsfeld Says Treaty Would Force U.S. to Share Wealth

    Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld urged U.S. senators to reject the Law of the Sea Treaty backed by the Obama administration because it would force rich countries to give to poorer ones.

  • Scene in D.C.: Rumsfeld, Pataki Mark 56th of Hungary 1956

    Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. defense secretary, greeted the 6-foot-5 George Pataki last night with: “My, you’ve grown.”

  • Wrestling With Corruption at the Olympics

    It has been scarcely a week since the International Olympic Committee announced its intention to exclude wrestling from the 2020 Summer Games, and the campaign to “Save Wrestling” is in full swing.

  • Rumsfeld Wins Dismissal of Suit Tying Him to Torture

    Donald Rumsfeld, a former U.S. defense secretary under President George W. Bush, won dismissal of a lawsuit brought by two Americans claiming he’s responsible for their alleged torture in Iraq.

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