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...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...
...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...
...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...
...officials, ordinary riders and family members of those killed in crashes. The hot ticket in London at the moment is Guantanamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom,' an indictment of the treatment of imprisoned terrorist suspects, culled from the words of detainees, lawyers and public officials like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
...military has made no secret of its fury with Rumsfeld and his coterie of neoconservatives at the Pentagon. Rumsfeld has been faulted for committing too few troops and too little planning to postwar Iraq. Returning National Guard leaders have been telling their congressional representatives about chaos in the field. There is also some rustling among the brass about General Tommy Franks' memoir, to be published in August. Bob Woodward reported that Franks once called Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith, who was charged with postwar planning, "the [Cheney expletive] stupidest guy on the face of the earth," and some defense...