Read more Donald Rumsfeld stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/605/donald-rumsfeld.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:17:34 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71677/flood-of-bush-memoirs-may-trip-up-gop.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 2010 elections offer Republicans the first chance in a long time to run without the handicap of the unpopular Bush administration. Or not. Bush may be out of office, but the period between now and next November could see the release of five Bush-era memoirs—from Hank Paulson, Laura...http://www.newser.com/story/71677/flood-of-bush-memoirs-may-trip-up-gop.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 14 Oct 2009 17:23:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69829/foolishness-not-evil-genius-drove-rove-o-lution.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLiberals like to think of Karl Rove as a malevolent demigod, using his powers to obstruct the greater good. But, former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer writes in the Washington Post , the legacy of “Bush’s Brain” is far more mundane: “It is a story not of grand strategy or evil genius...http://www.newser.com/story/69829/foolishness-not-evil-genius-drove-rove-o-lution.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 20 Sep 2009 13:15:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68214/ridge-takes-back-threat-level-claim-in-his-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFormer Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge says the Bush administration “never pressured” him to raise the US terror threat level, backing down on a claim made in his book, USA Today reports. In the book, Ridge writes that John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld pushed him to elevate it before the...http://www.newser.com/story/68214/ridge-takes-back-threat-level-claim-in-his-book.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 31 Aug 2009 10:12:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66478/mcconnell-white-house-demonizing-health-critics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe White House is “demonizing” the fiercely outspoken critics of its health care reform, Sen. Mitch McConnell told Fox News Sunday today. “To demonize citizens who are energetic about this strikes me as demonstrating a kind of weakness in your position,” the Senate minority leader said, but Sen. Dick Durbin...http://www.newser.com/story/66478/mcconnell-white-house-demonizing-health-critics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 09 Aug 2009 10:14:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64170/would-rummy-pull-a-mcnamara-and-apologize.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagRobert McNamara, the architect of the Vietnam War, eventually expressed regret for the conflict—but would Donald Rumsfeld ever apologize for Iraq? Unlikely—at least not anytime soon, writes a Rumsfeld biographer in the Washington Post . Thus far, the former secretary of Defense “has never appeared to waver in the...http://www.newser.com/story/64170/would-rummy-pull-a-mcnamara-and-apologize.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 12 Jul 2009 8:48:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60710/in-princeton-address-couric-rips-palin-limbaugh.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagKatie Couric today delivered the Class Day speech to Princeton graduates, and posted the speech on the Huffington Post. Some highlights: "I’ve been called a cougar lately in the tabloid press—today I’m very happy to be an honorary tiger! Coming here was a real no brainer! After all, I...http://www.newser.com/story/60710/in-princeton-address-couric-rips-palin-limbaugh.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 01 Jun 2009 17:21:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60566/save-the-trauma-excuses-you-failed-on-911.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIronically, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice have defended their post-9/11 decisions by appealing for empathy, arguing that only those in charge on that bleak day could understand. “I have little sympathy for this argument,” Richard Clarke, who was there, retorts in a withering piece for the Washington Post , blaming them...http://www.newser.com/story/60566/save-the-trauma-excuses-you-failed-on-911.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 31 May 2009 11:36:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59586/rumsfeld-denies-he-put-bible-in-briefings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDonald Rumsfeld didn't decorate the president’s World Intelligence Update cover slides with biblical quotes, a spokesman says, and GQ reporter Robert Draper should've known better than to use anonymous sources "with an axe to grind." The slides, the spokesman says in an email to Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic , were...http://www.newser.com/story/59586/rumsfeld-denies-he-put-bible-in-briefings.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 May 2009 9:36:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59267/bullying-rumsfeld-used-bible-to-sway-bush-on-iraq.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDonald Rumsfeld isn’t a preacher, but nearly every morning after the Iraq invasion, he handed President Bush a national security digest containing Biblical quotations intended to influence his decisions. This tactic, Robert Draper writes for GQ in a lengthy look at Rummy's standing among administration contemporaries, epitomizes the former Pentagon...http://www.newser.com/story/59267/bullying-rumsfeld-used-bible-to-sway-bush-on-iraq.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 17 May 2009 13:00:00 CDT