Word: rumsfeldism
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First, they had taken the idea to Michael Chertoff, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of prosecutions, who brought the matter to his boss, John Ashcroft. With the Attorney General's approval, the prosecutors discussed a possible deal with officials at the Pentagon, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, among the most vocal of Lindh's early critics. Rumsfeld agreed to the idea of a plea. Next, a Justice Department lawyer spoke to White House counsel Al Gonzalez, who briefed President Bush. But while the top officials of the U.S. government were ready to strike a deal, Lindh was not. Brosnahan...
Pentagon officials, following Rumsfeld's orders, insisted that Lindh retract his claim of being mistreated by the military. Brosnahan says his client never felt he was intentionally abused by guards, though several took snapshots of one another next to his bound form. Defense lawyers wanted the charges alleging ties to al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups dropped. Says Brosnahan: "We were not going to sign anything that he was a terrorist...
...felt that the weapons were tracking them," said Colonel Roger King, a Pentagon spokesman at Bagram air base, north of Kabul. So the gunship--a flying arsenal loaded with machine guns and a 105-mm howitzer--fired on the compound. Subsequent comments by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld did little to soften the blow. "There cannot be the use of that kind of firepower and not have mistakes," he said. "It is going to happen...
There certainly is no consensus within the President's top circle of advisers. Hard-liners like Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wanted Bush to push for Arafat's ouster. But Secretary of State Colin Powell has urged Bush to advocate political and economic reforms without demanding Arafat's removal. Powell, says a senior U.S. Middle East expert, suffered a "frustrating" defeat...
Powell is pushing for early recognition of a Palestinian state, a firm time line for determining its borders and capital, and a strong U.S. statement on the thorniest issues. Rumsfeld and Cheney oppose an assertive American solution; instead, they want to give Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a freer hand to tackle Palestinian terrorists and leave tough final-status issues for well down the line. Bush has left it to his aides to fight over which of the two dramatically different approaches he will endorse. And fight they have. When Powell told an Arab newspaper that the Administration was leaning...