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...stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours?" DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Secretary of Defense, in a handwritten note on a newly released memo in which he approved interrogation techniques for Guant?namo detainees that included standing for up to four hours. Rumsfeld works at a stand-up desk...
...Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) never actually relayed Cheney's command to its pilots in the air, some of whom were seeking a jet, American Airlines Flight 11, that had earlier crashed into the World Trade Center. So pronounced was the state of confusion that Cheney told Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during a conference call at 10:39 a.m. that he believed the U.S. had "already taken a couple of aircraft...
...that Cheney's old company, Halliburton, had scored in Iraq. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz suffered a meltdown in a House Armed Services Committee hearing, blasting the press for "sitting in Baghdad" and "printing rumors." (He later apologized.) And the White House was forced to acknowledge that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had approved, at least for a while, the use of dogs, nudity, stress positions-that is, torture-against enemy combatants. Indeed, Rumsfeld, who works at a stand-up desk, indicated a desire for at least one more strenuous stress position: "I stand 8-10 hours a day," he scrawled...
...allegations concerned four National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, totalling $5.5 million, that were awarded to Harvard from 1994 to 1999. The grants were intended to be used for research on aging at Beth Israel, a Harvard Medical School (HMS) affiliate, HMS Associate Dean for Public Affairs Donald L. Gibbons said...
...group of politically appointed lawyers in various departments in the Administration maintained that the conventions, which ban the use of torture on prisoners of war and were signed by the U.S. in 1955, did not apply in a war against terrorists. Top officials agreed. In February 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, "The reality is, the set of facts that exist today with al-Qaeda and the Taliban were not necessarily the set of facts that were considered when the Geneva Convention was fashioned...