Word: rumsfeldism
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...down ... but I'd certainly be interested in the sort of people who served in the first Bush Administration." Gates was George H.W. Bush's CIA director - and he has been a superb Secretary of Defense, as good in that post as his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, was awful...
...November 2002, senior U.S. military lawyers internally protested the use of these harsh techniques. But, with some exceptions, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved such methods for use at Guantanamo. Later, many were again used at Abu Ghraib...
...Scott left the building, practically invisible in the noisy exodus of Messrs. Card, Rumsfeld, Rove, and Gonzales. Two years have elapsed since Bush bid his friend and mouthpiece farewell with this prediction: “One of these days, he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas talking about the good old days of his time as the press secretary. And I can assure you, I will feel the same way then that I feel now, that I can say to Scott, job well done...
Courting moderates, McCain likens himself to Teddy Roosevelt, the Bull Moose who bucked both political parties. True, the maverick clips Republicans often: He called Donald Rumsfeld one of the worst defense secretaries in history, dubbed the federal response to Hurricane Katrina “disgraceful,” and slammed President Bush for “shirking” his duty to combat climate change...
After his arrival at Guantanamo, Qahtani's interrogation was personally authorized by then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. An account of his questioning, catalogued in a then-top-secret, 84-page log, was published as a cover story by TIME in June...