Tag: rumsfeld
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still catapulting the propaganda
rummy resurfaces & calls for US propaganda agencyfrom danger room: One of the many things I love about Donald Rumsfeld is that he’s totally unrepentant. Back in 2001, the Pentagon under his leadership created the controversial Office of Strategic Influence, which was closed down just a few months later after its existence became public. Rightly…
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police state technocracy run amok
the pentagon’s electronic warfare programfrom global research: In 2003, then Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld signed a document called the Information Operation Roadmap which outlined, among other things, the Pentagon’s desire to dominate the entire electromagnetic spectrum. If you are unfamiliar with this document, more detail can be found in a previous article here… How…
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11yr old shames the fda by doing their job
from national expositor: Jennifer Cohen is an eleven-year old student in Mrs. Simmons’ sixth grade Oradell, New Jersey class. Jennifer conducted an experiment proving aspartame, the artificial sweetener in diet soda, breaks down into two deadly neurotoxins when stored at room temperature and under refrigeration… Concerning aspartame, the FDA says, “we believe that based on…
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‘link iraq to iran,’ rumsfeld argued before proof
from raw story: Ten months before the US aired formal proof of Iranian involvement in funding Iraqi insurgents, then-Secretary of Defense warned in secret Pentagon memos that Iran should be the “concern of the American people” and he issued explicit instructions to the military. “[L]ink Iraq to Iran,” Rumsfeld wrote in one of thousands of…
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rumsfeld changes course, will testify on tillman death
from raw story: Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will testify at a Wednesday hearing on the friendly fire death of Army Specialist and former NFL player Pat Tillman. “In a late breaking development, Secretary Rumsfeld will appear before the Oversight Committee tomorrow,” stated a release from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.…
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gravel: why hillary scares me
from huffington post: During one of the debates I mentioned that my fellow Democratic candidates scare me. Hillary’s speech last week to the Take Back America conference gives me yet another reason to be afraid. In an indignant voice she decried the Bush administration’s “stunning record of secrecy and corruption, of cronyism run amok. .…
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tenet: cheney had eye on iraq long before 9/11
from blacklisted news/houston chronicle: White House and Pentagon officials, and particularly Vice President Dick Cheney, were determined to attack Iraq from the first days of the Bush administration, long before the Sept. 11 attacks, and repeatedly stretched available intelligence to build support for the war, according to a new book by former CIA director George…
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judge dismisses lawsuit against rumsfeld
from ap/yahoo: 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.” U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan threw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of nine former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said Rumsfeld…
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before we go eulogizing gerald ford. . .
from wayne madsen: As the nation eulogizes President Gerald R. Ford, who died last night in California, no one should lose sight of the fact that it was Ford who helped launch the careers of the two ugliest faces in the George W. Bush administration: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Cheney and Rumsfeld were deep-selected…
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rumsfeld’s legacy
from msnbc:A military leader to be admired – 19%A failed military strategist – 81%
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Gates unlikely to rein in Pentagon on intelligence
from reuters: Robert Gates is unlikely to rein in the Pentagon’s controversial post-September 11 expansion into intelligence, despite concerns the U.S. military is ill-suited for espionage outside the battlefield, experts say. But Gates, the former CIA director who will be sworn in as defense secretary on Monday, could help heal a rift between the Pentagon…
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judge weighs torture claim vs rumsfeld
from ventura county state: A federal judge on Friday appeared reluctant to give Donald H. Rumsfeld immunity from torture allegations, yet said it would be unprecedented to let the departing defense secretary face a civil trial. “What you’re asking for has never been done before,” U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan told lawyers for the…
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rumsfeld ok’d abuses at abu ghraib
from reuters: Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the prison’s former U.S. commander said in an interview on Saturday. Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told Spain’s El Pais newspaper she had seen a letter apparently signed by Rumsfeld which allowed civilian contractors to…
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suing rumsfeld
from raw story: In this video clip, CNN interviews Cyrus Kar, an Iranian-American filmmaker, who is suing U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for wrongful imprisonment and the violation of his Constitutional rights. In Iraq to film a historical documentary, Kar was charged with being a terrorist and placed in the notorious prison at Abu Ghraib.…
