Donald Rumsfeld
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| Born | Donald Henry Rumsfeld 1932-07-09 Evanston, Illinois, US | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Balkan Action Committee, Committee for the Free World, Gilead Sciences, Hoover Institution/Fellows, Le Cercle, Project for the New American Century, US/Deep state | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rumsfeld was a roommate of Frank Carlucci at Princeton University where he graduated in 1954 with a degree in political science.
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Torture
Donald Rumsfeld was an enthusiastic supporter of "enhanced interrogation", and his tenure as US Defense Secretary was marked by torture and the events of Abu Ghraib. He has never been brought to justice for these crimes. In June 2013 the US Supreme Court confirmed a federal appeals court ruling by ruling that Rumsfeld cannot be held liable for any illegal actions of his subordinates. He was being sued for personally authorising "enhanced interrogation" techniques, the court ruled that US military officials are immune to civil lawsuits over torture.[1][2]
WTC 7 Denial
When asked about the demolition of WTC 7, Donald Rumsfeld audaciously claimed that he had never heard of it.[3]
Defense secretary
Retired 4-star general Wesley Clark (former supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe 1997-2001) stated the US military had already formed plans to invade 7 countries in and around the Middle East:
In 2001, in the Pentagon, a general told me : ‘I just received a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense [Rumsfeld]: we will take seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, Iran.’[4]
Appointments by Donald Rumsfeld
| Appointee | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
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| Arthur Hull Hayes | FDA/Commissioner | 13 April 1981 | 11 September 1983 | De facto appointment by selection for Ronald Reagan |
| William Schneider | Defense Science Board/Chairman | 2002 | 2009 | Continued to advocate use of nuclear weapons in some limited first-strike situations. |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/1975 | 25 April 1975 | 27 April 1975 | Turkey Golden Dolphin Hotel Cesme | The 24th Bilderberg Meeting, 98 guests |
| Bilderberg/2002 | 30 May 2002 | 2 June 2002 | US Virginia Chantilly Westfields Marriott | The 50th Bilderberg, held at Chantilly, Virginia. |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Bush Cheney Rumsfeld and 9/11 | webpage | 1 December 2005 | Matt Everett | |
| Document:Donald Rumsfeld and the demolition of WTC 7 | article | 22 May 2014 | Kevin Ryan | Further evidence of Donald Rumsfeld's complicity in the events of 9/11, with particular reference to his substantial connection to WTC7 and his lying about it and its destruction.. |
| Document:Sanitising the Iraq War | article | 6 July 2016 | Jonathon Shafi | The full horror of what Blair unleashed will never be truly understood in the West. And, internationally the full consequences of this war are still to be felt. As the sister of a soldier killed in Iraq said: “There is one terrorist in this world and his name is Tony Blair.” |
| Document:We are the war criminals now | Article | 29 November 2001 | Robert Fisk | George W. Bush says that "you are either for us or against us" in the war for civilisation against evil. Well, I'm sure not for bin Laden. But I'm not for Bush. I'm actively against the brutal, cynical, lying "war of civilisation" that he has begun so mendaciously in our name and which has now cost as many lives as the World Trade Center mass murder. |
References
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/supreme-court-donald-rumsfeld_n_3415124.html
- ↑ http://rt.com/usa/supreme-rumsfeld-vance-court-493/
- ↑ Document:Donald Rumsfeld and the demolition of WTC 7
- ↑ Interview radio Democracy Now, 2007-03-02
