Rumsfeld hints he may approve increase
of Iraqi security forces
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday that he was "comfortable" with a
proposal to increase the size of Iraqi security forces, indicating he might
approve the proposal.
"I'm very comfortable with the increases they've
proposed and the accelerations in achievement of some of their targets,"
Rumsfeld told reporters. Full story>>
Pentagon mounts media campaign to
defend Rumsfeld
BEIJING, Oct. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- The Pentagon is taking aim
at the Internet and Web logs, the so-called "new media," in a campaign to
deflect mounting criticism of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld by a U.S.
public that is becoming increasingly disenchanged with the conflict in Iraq.
Rumsfeld has often criticized media for concentrating too
much on bad news coming out of Iraq, and not enough on progress being made
there. Earlier this year during a trip to Nevada he said he was deeply troubled
by the success of terrorist groups in "manipulating the media" to influence
Westerners. Full story>>
Rumsfeld: U.S. is fighting "new type
of fascism"
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the country was confronting "the
rising of a new type of fascism."
In a speech to the national convention of the
American Legion, a veterans' group, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Rumsfeld cited
"lessons" of history, including the failure to confront Hitler in the 1930s, and
recalled a string of recent terrorist attacks, saying that terrorists must be
confronted, not appeased. Full story>>
Rumsfeld denies 'power play' in CIA
shakeup
Related: Senior CIA official under investigation,
resigns
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| At a press briefing at the Pentagon,
Rumsfeld says there is no "power play taking place in Washington. "
(Photo: Xinhua/Reuters) |
WASHINGTON, May 9 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday expressed support for the nomination of Michael
Hayden, a Air Force general, as the new Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief,
but denied the Pentagon was trying to expand control over the intelligence
community.
At a press briefing at the Pentagon, Rumsfeld said
there was no "power play taking place in Washington, and termed Hayden,
currently the principal deputy director of National Intelligence, as "an
intelligence professional."
He said Hayden had had assignment after assignment
after assignment in the intelligence business, and the general was "very good at
it." Full story>>
