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My babbling confuses all. That is how I trick them into letting me ruin America and take over the world with PNAC.
posted by Anonymous
2005-08-23 22:57:36

  
Donald Rumsfeld
Type Individual
Position Secretary of Defense
Political Party Other
Created by [Unknown]

  
Donald Rumsfeld's Friends
George W. Bush
GWB appointed Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense.

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Hoover Institution
Yet another Hoover Institution fellow.

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Saddam Hussein
Rumsfeld and Hussein go way back... first as allies, then as enemies.

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Frank Carlucci
"just friends"


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Zalmay Khalilzad
Khalilzad was once Rumsfeld's council


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9/11 Commission
Rumsfeld testified before the 9/11 Commission


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Ronald Reagan
Rumsfeld held a variety of minor posts under Reagan


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George Schultz
Rumsfeld served under Schultz when Schultz was Secretary of State.


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Bohemian Grove
HEIL BUSHTLER!

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The US Council on Foreign Relations
Member of the CFR


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Pentagon Defence Policy Board
Appoints the Board's members

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Evan Galbraith
Rumsfeld appointed Galbraith soon after the 2000 election.


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Center for Security Policy
member


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The Bilderberg group
Attended Bilderberg in 2003.


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Manuel Noriega
Noriega was an old buddy.

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Midge Decter
Decter is the author of a biography/hagiography of Rumsfeld

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Douglas J. Feith
Donald Rumsfeld is Feith's direct superior at DoD.

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Paul Wolfowitz
Rumsfeld is Wolfowitz's boss.

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Edward "Pete" Aldridge
Undersecretary of defense for acquisitions under Rumsfeld, 2001-2003


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Empower America
Board member


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Freedom House
Board member


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Princeton University
Alumnus


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Bechtel Corporation
Negotiator

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Chris Williams
Special Assistant


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Guatànamo Bay Scandal
Reviewed the use of four types of interrogation methods before they can be used on foreign terrorism suspects at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay

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Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee
Approved all Board Members.


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National D-Day Museum
Rumsfeld is one of the museum's "Chariman's Club" supporters.


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Kenneth Adelman
Adelman was "a onetime protege of Donald Rumsfeld's"--Strobe Talbot in Master of the Game


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Rand Corporation
Former Board Member


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Carlyle Group
business


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Office of Special Plans
"The agency, called the Office of Special Plans (OSP), was set up by the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to second-guess CIA information and operated under the patronage of hardline conservatives...

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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand makes formal statement on November 14, 2005 "outting" Bushco's hidden agenda of the PNAC. She mentions Donald Rumsfeld as a PNAC signatory of an open letter to then President Clinton...

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Monsanto
Left DoD to join Searle and champion Aspertame approval in 1976. Rumsfeld, the current secretary of defense, was president of Searle Pharmaceuticals, now owned by Monsanto.


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FDA Food and Drug Administration
After serving as Nixon's Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld joined Searle and worked with Hayes to delay lawsuits blocking aspertame approval.


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Gerald Ford
Rumsfeld was White House Chief of Staff for Ford.


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National Smallpox Preparedness Program
Rumsfeld was replaced at Gilead by Cordell W. Hull. Hull also serves as a director of Bechtel Group, Inc. Gilead's Smallpox Profits grew in 2001 as policy tries to make the smallpox vaccine REQUIRE...


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BioPort
Donald Rumsfeld pushed the BioPort anthrax approval through, using all the strong-arm tactics at his disposal. Next Rumsfeld


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U.S. Army PSYOPS
LINKS here: Washington, D.C., January 26, 2006 A secret Pentagon "roadmap" on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2003.


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Abu Ghraib
The Secretary of Defense set the policies which set the tone for torture. The position was Geneva Conventions would apply only "to the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessity...."

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The Black Room
Setting the tone and policy for the military new stories confirm the Defense Secretary's torture policy. elite Special Operations forces unit converted one of Saddam Hussein's former military bases ...


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Avian Flu
Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. He has made more than $5 million in capital gains from selling shares in the firm that makes Tamiflu. Though it has yet to be proven effective th...


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Counterintelligence Field Activity - CIFA
Creating America's Secret Police? Intel experts warn that a proposal to merge two Pentagon intelligence units could create an ominous new agency. See CIFA links for details.


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Jon Kyl
Kyl told the Supreme Court he'd had a conversation that never happened, in order to protect Rumsfeld in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.


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Riley Bechtel
during current Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's infamous trip to Baghdad in December of 1983 as a Middle East special envoy, Rumsfeld advocated for Bechtel's proposal to build an Iraqi oil pipeline in...


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Kim Jong Il
Donald Rumsfeld, the man who paved the way for U.S. companies to sell Iraq chemical and biological weapons in 1983, was an executive director for ABB from 2000-2001. The company that got the contract...


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ABB (Asea Brown Boveri)
Donald Rumsfeld, the man who paved the way for U.S. companies to sell Iraq chemical and biological weapons in 1983, was an executive director for ABB from 2000-2001.


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Biotech Brigade
Former CEO Searle and key to creating delays to let statute of limitations run out so aspertame gained regulatory approval.


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Dr. Arthur Hayes Jr.
For 16 years, the FDA denied approval of aspartame because of evidence contributing to brain tumors and other serious disabilities. Rumsfeld and Hayes made it happen.


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Bob Dole
When Bob Dole rand for President, his Chief or Staff was Rummy, the former head of G.D. Searle the Monsanto Pharma Arm.


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GD Searle & Company (Pharmacia Company)
"When Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle, that conglomerate manufactured aspartame. For 16 years the FDA refused to approve it, not only because its not safe but because they wanted the company indict...


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Samuel Knox Skinner
Rummy was the Searle CEO who got to sell the deadly asparatame after his buddy Skinner ran out the statute of limitations on the Federal lawsuit.


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America Supports You
Using the Pentagon created front group for PR, on December 2, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld presented an "America Supports You" dog tag to Bill O'Reilly on his Fox News show, calling O'Reilly "a ...


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Gilead Sciences Inc.
Foster City, CA, January 3, 1997 - Gilead Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that board member Donald H. Rumsfeld will assume the position of Chairman, effective immediately.


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Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Paulson was Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense at The Pentagon from 1970 to 1972


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Aspertame
For 16 years, the Food and Drug Administration denied approval of aspartame because of compelling evidence of its contributing to brain tumours and other serious disabilities. Donald Rumsfeld left Pr...


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Robert Gates
Ironically, that same pro-Iraq initiative involved Donald Rumsfeld, then Reagan’s special emissary to the Middle East. An infamous photograph from 1983 shows a smiling Rumsfeld shaking hands with Sad...


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War Crimes
A lawsuit in Germany will seek a criminal prosecution of the outgoing Defense Secretary and other U.S. officials for their alleged role in abuses at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo


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Chicken Hawks
Conflict Avoided: Korea Notes: When the shooting started in Korea Rummy here was either 18, or about to turn 18. Not to worry for him, though — he spent the war at Princeton, wearing a ROTC uniform....


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Stephen Cambone
The Secret World of Rumsfeld's Enforcer, a key player in the roll back of Geneva Conventions, prisoner torture and other bright spots in the Bush regime.


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Bill (William Perry) Clements Jr.
He entered politics as the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense under Presidents Nixon and Ford, in the latter administration under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (1975-77; 2001-2006).


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Iraq General Security Directorate
White House officials consider the Police Commandos as the leading force against the insurgency. Donald Rumsfeld said the commandos are among “forces that are going to have the greatest leverage on s...


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Seymour Hersh
On May 29th, 1975, an aide to then-White House chief of staff Donald Rumsfeld sat down with a yellow legal pad and in careful longhand sketched out a list of possible responses to a damaging investig...


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Donald Kerr
...was sworn into the position July 2005 by Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte.


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Executive Intelligence Review.
This article appears in the Aug. 30, 2002 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. Rumsfeld's 'Feith and Bum' Corps: What Is Defense Policy Board? by Michele Steinberg


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Alexander Haig
Haig also played an instrumental role in finally persuading Nixon to resign. In his 2001 book, "Shadow", author Bob Woodward describes Haig's role as the point man between Nixon and then Vice Preside...


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BISCUITS - Behavioral Science Consultation Teams
In one case, a soldier refused to discharge his duties unless he saw authorizing paperwork. He was subsequently shown a document authorizing these tactics, signed by none other than Donald Rumsfeld.


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Special Removal Unit
Reports have suggested that C.I.A. prisons are being operated in Thailand, Qatar, and Afghanistan, among other countries. At the request of the C.I.A., Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally...


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Monsanto's American Government
Former CEO Searle - created delays to let statute of limitations run out so aspartame was "approved" by default.


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Harlan Ullman
Rumsfeld based his Iraq, uh, "strategy" on a book written by Ullman. (That is: bomb the sh** out of it.)


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Thomas Barnett
Within weeks of 9/11, Barnett will be installed as the assistant for strategic futures in Donald Rumsfeld’s newly created Office of Force Transformation - Esquire 12/2002


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Office of Force Transformation
OFT was established October 29, 2001. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called for the creation of this new office to support his transformation vision along with President George W. Bush’s broad...


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Project 908
Involved from the program's inception, Cheney working as a Republican congressman, Rumsfeld head of the pharmaceutical company G. D. Searle. At least once per year, they both leave their day jobs for...


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Jim Melnick
from corporate website - Melnick is currently a U.S. Army Reserve Colonel with Military Intelligence, assigned to the Office of the Secretary of Defense.


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Blackwater USA
Donald Rumsfeld, in one of his first major addresses, on September 10, 2001, stood before the gaggle of former corporate CEOs and executives that would make up the core of the civilian leadership of ...


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Joseph Schmitz
Schmitz notified Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld of his resignation because Rummy was still running the Pentagon show when Schmitz swung over to Blackwater's payroll


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Thomas White
Sources: Army Secretary Was Fired - "Resignation' Said To Really Be Dismissal By Rumsfeld - WASHINGTON, April 26, 2003


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Sidley Austin, LLP.
The whole process of taking aspartame from the chemical weapons division to Searle was overseen by Donald Rumsfeld who moved from MK-Ultra to Searle. Sidley Austin was the firm who greased the wheels...


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State of Qatar
Reports have suggested that C.I.A. prisons are being operated in Thailand, Qatar, and Afghanistan, among other countries. At the request of the C.I.A., Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally...


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Daniel Rather
Rumsfeld co-owns a ranch with Dan Rather


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Operation Iraqi Freedom
TIME Dec. 21, 2003 - Two weeks ago the Pentagon posted on one of its websites a previously released announcement that only the 62 coalition allies could participate in U.S.-funded postwar contracts, ...


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Norman Podhoretz
Committee on the Present Danger -- like (Project for the New American Century) PNAC a coalition of mainly Jewish, neo-conservatives and more traditional right-wing hawks like Defence Secretary Donald...


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Stephen E. Herbits
Advisor to Rumsfeld in early 2001, & again during the run-up to the assault on Iraq.


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The Pentagon
On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld conceded, “According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.”


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andrew marshall
Marshall "Star Protege"


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Code Pink Women For Peace
Medea Benjamin and Desiree Farooz of Code Pink Women For Peace coincidentally see Donald Rumsfeld at 2009 White House Correspondent's Dinner in D.C.

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Project for a New American Century (PNAC)
member and founding signatory

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Ken Duberstein
See NSC Project 908 - Within the National Security Council, the “action officer” involved in the COG program is Oliver North, who is a key figure in the mid-1980s Iran-Contra scandal. Reagan’s Vice P...


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International Criminal Court this Complaint
January 20, 2010 - International Criminal Court Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, Gonzales


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Salomon Smith Barney
"More striking is the fact that Donald Rumsfeld was the chairman of that SSB board, and Dick Cheney was a board member as well. Rumsfeld served as chairman of the SSB International Advisory Board sin...


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Jennifer Koester Hardy
(from Kirkland Ellis bio) Other Distinctions - Office of the Secretary of Defense, Exceptional Civilian Service Award for support to the Secretary of Defense in the War on Terror, October 2002


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