Donald Rumsfeld

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Person.png Donald Rumsfeld  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
BornDonald Henry Rumsfeld
1932-07-09
Evanston, Illinois, US
Member ofBalkan Action Committee, Committee for the Free World, Gilead Sciences, Hoover Institution/Fellows, Le Cercle, Project for the New American Century, US/Deep state

Employment.png United States Secretary of Defense

In office
January 20, 2001 - December 18, 2006
Preceded byWilliam Cohen
Succeeded byRobert Gates

Employment.png Chairman

In office
1996 - 1995
EmployerRAND Corporation
Succeeded byMichel Bon, Charles Powell

Employment.png Chairman

In office
1981 - 1986
EmployerRAND Corporation
Succeeded byRichard Snyder

Employment.png United States Secretary of Defense

In office
November 20, 1975 - January 20, 1977
Preceded byJames Schlesinger
Succeeded byHarold Brown

Employment.png White House Chief of Staff Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
September 21, 1974 - November 20, 1975
Preceded byAlexander Haig
Succeeded byDick Cheney
Rumsfeld1954 princeton yearbook.jpg

Rumsfeld was a roommate of Frank Carlucci at Princeton University where he graduated in 1954 with a degree in political science.

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

AppointeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Arthur Hull HayesFDA/Commissioner13 April 198111 September 1983De facto appointment by selection for Ronald Reagan
William SchneiderDefense Science Board/Chairman20022009Continued to advocate use of nuclear weapons in some limited first-strike situations.

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/197525 April 197527 April 1975Turkey
Golden Dolphin Hotel
Cesme
The 24th Bilderberg Meeting, 98 guests
Bilderberg/200230 May 20022 June 2002US
Virginia
Chantilly
Westfields Marriott
The 50th Bilderberg, held at Chantilly, Virginia.

 

Related Documents

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Bush Cheney Rumsfeld and 9/11webpage1 December 2005Matt Everett
Document:Donald Rumsfeld and the demolition of WTC 7article22 May 2014Kevin RyanFurther 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 Wararticle6 July 2016Jonathon ShafiThe 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 nowArticle29 November 2001Robert FiskGeorge 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.
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