home

Tag: Condoleeza Rice

Rumsfeld to Bush: "I Don't Do Detainees"

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Detainees
Posted on Sun Oct 23, 2011 at 12:43:06 PM EST
Tags: Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice (all tags)
Share This: Digg! StumbleUpon del.icio.us reddit reddit

Condoleeza Rice has written a 734 page memoir of her time in the Bush Administration (first as National Security Adviser and then as Secretary of State.) The New York Times has an advance copy. It says she recounts her clashes with Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales and Rumsfeld. Rice describes the meeting with Cheney and Bush where Bush decided to move Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from an overseas secret prison to Guantanamo. As to Rumsfeld:

Ms. Rice writes that he tried to avoid such issues, at one point marching out of a meeting and saying, “I don’t do detainees.” [More...]

(16 comments, 527 words in story) There's More :: Permalink :: Comments