http://dir.salon.com/topics/donald_rumsfeld/?source=rss&aim=donald_rumsfeld en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT By Nick Turse Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/22/bush_officials/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/06/22/bush_officials/index.html?source=rss The unemployment rate is high around the country -- but not for former Bush officials. A guide to who's cashing in By Alfred W. McCoy Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/11/mccoy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/11/mccoy/index.html?source=rss Throughout the Cold War, the agency outsourced abuse to other nations. Will Obama put us back on this path? By Alex Koppelman Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/05/19/rumsfeld/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/05/19/rumsfeld/index.html?source=rss Through an aide, the former defense secretary says he wasn't responsible for briefings that featured Biblical quotations. By Marcy Wheeler Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/18/torture/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/05/18/torture/index.html?source=rss 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. By Mike Madden Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/22/madden/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/04/22/madden/index.html?source=rss The secretary of defense began laying the groundwork for detainee abuse years before Abu Ghraib. By Alex Koppelman Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/05/18/rumsfeld/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/05/18/rumsfeld/index.html?source=rss A new report details the anger within the Bush administration toward the former secretary of defense, and shows how he hurt Katrina relief efforts. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/04/22/torture/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/04/22/torture/index.html?source=rss A Senate report describes how the Bush administration began its torture program -- and may have pushed for the use of torture to produce evidence linking al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein. By Mark Benjamin Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2008/12/12/treatment_detainee/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2008/12/12/treatment_detainee/index.html?source=rss After a two-year investigation, the Senate names names -- Bush, Tenet, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, Gonzales, Addington, Rice. By Mark Benjamin Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/12/01/graner/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/12/01/graner/index.html?source=rss No one from the Bush administration has been held accountable for torture. But the guard from Abu Ghraib prison is still behind bars, and his family wants to know why. By Walter Shapiro Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/19/election_homestretch/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/19/election_homestretch/index.html?source=rss So much about the Obama-McCain contest breaks the mold -- yet the electoral map is looking eerily familiar. By Mark Benjamin Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/30/richard_myers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/30/richard_myers/index.html?source=rss New evidence shows that despite warnings from across the military, former Gen. Richard Myers shut down legal scrutiny of brutal interrogation tactics. By Mark Benjamin Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/18/interrogation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/18/interrogation/index.html?source=rss Newly public evidence sheds greater light on Bush officials' efforts to develop brutal interrogation techniques for the war on terror. By Michael T. Klare Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/12/russian_oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/12/russian_oil/index.html?source=rss As oil prices drain the U.S. of military power and influence, Russia is rising as a world force again. By Vincent Rossmeier Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/05/09/rumsfeld_generals/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/05/09/rumsfeld_generals/index.html?source=rss Newly released Pentagon files have the former secretary of defense faulting military commanders for inadequate troop strength. By Mark Benjamin and Christopher Weaver Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/09/snipers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/09/snipers/index.html?source=rss In 2007 elite U.S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq? By Sidney Blumenthal Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/04/24/blumenthal_death/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/04/24/blumenthal_death/index.html?source=rss A look at how radicalism has forced the Republican Party to retreat. By Sidney Blumenthal Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/04/14/cheney/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/04/14/cheney/index.html?source=rss A hard look at how one man changed the face of neoconservatism. By Mark Danner Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/27/danner/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/27/danner/index.html?source=rss Not only has America not defeated al-Qaida -- but now terrorism has gone viral. By Gary Kamiya Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/03/04/trillion_dollar_war/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/03/04/trillion_dollar_war/index.html?source=rss A devastating new book reveals that Iraq will cost the U.S. at least $3 trillion. Will Americans check their pocketbooks the next time a president tries to sell them on a cheap, glorious war? By Mark Benjamin Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/01/17/mccain/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/01/17/mccain/index.html?source=rss On the campaign trail he touts his sharp criticism of Donald Rumsfeld and the Bush administration on Iraq. But a look at McCain's record reveals a different war story. By Walter Shapiro Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/roadies/2007/12/21/rummy_iowa/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/roadies/2007/12/21/rummy_iowa/index.html?source=rss We apply Rumsfeld's "known knowns" and "known unknowns" to the caucuses. By Craig Unger Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/11/07/house_of_bush/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/11/07/house_of_bush/index.html?source=rss The battle lines between father and son were drawn. In the balance hung policies that would kill and maim hundreds of thousands of people and change the global balance of power for years to come. By Sidney Blumenthal Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/04/private_military_in_iraq/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/04/private_military_in_iraq/index.html?source=rss Under the cloak of freedom, the U.S. exempted Blackwater and other contractors from Iraqi law -- and destroyed its own democratic credibility. By Joe Conason Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/09/28/aznar_iraq/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/09/28/aznar_iraq/index.html?source=rss Bush's 2003 conversation with the Spanish prime minister shows his smug determination to invade Iraq at all costs. By Sidney Blumenthal Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/20/bush_draper/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/20/bush_draper/index.html?source=rss Hoping that history will somehow vindicate him, the president has entered a phase of decadent perversity.