The opposing view, argued by Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a number of influential Department of Defense policy makers such as Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, held that direct and unilateral action was both possible and justified and that America should embrace the opportunities for democracy and security offered by its position as sole remaining superpower.

# Commander Marr of the South Carolina brig, and not U. S. Secretary Rumsfeld, should have been named as the respondent to the petition.

At the time, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld felt that the men should be declared enemy combatants and could have been tried by a military tribunal.

In December 2004, a controversy arose when it was revealed that United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, was using an autopen to sign letters-of-condolence to families of American military members who had died in the line of duty while serving under Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.

Khalilzad with Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in April 2006.

Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admits that the U. S. government is communicating with Iraqi soldiers.

On 2004-06-16, The Pentagon confirmed a report in the New York Times that former CIA chief George Tenet had been allowed by former U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to have an Iraqi prisoner secretly detained at Camp Cropper since November, but denied they were trying to hide the prisoner from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

From 2002 to 2009, Benjamin engaged in numerous protest actions in which she shouted slogans, displayed banners, or both during events involving U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ; U. S. President George W. Bush ; U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ; and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, among others.

* December 23 – U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announces the first in an expected series of troop drawdowns following the Iraqi elections.

* Rumsfeld ordered secret detention of Iraqi suspect, The Guardian, June 18, 2004

Middle East special envoy Donald Rumsfeld meeting Saddam Hussein on 19 – 20 December 1983.

On December 5, 2005, U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a lecture dubbed " The Future of Iraq " at Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

After the large rally, a few thousand protesters attempted to march to the International Amphitheatre, but were stopped in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, where the presidential candidates and their campaigns were headquartered ( as well as a young Donald Rumsfeld ).

US District Court Justice James Robertson had ruled, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, that the military commissions violated International agreements to which the United States was a signatory.

Amnesty International and numerous commentators have accused the Military Commissions Act of 2006 of approving a system that uses torture, destroying the mechanisms for judicial review created by the Supreme Court ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and creating a parallel legal system below international standards.

Boyle has requested that the International Criminal Court Prosecutor obtain International Arrest Warrants for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales.

* Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The Supreme Court Affirms International Law, JURIST, June 30, 2006

" Further investigation by the Boston Herald revealed that Swanson had also copied some of the rules from former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and columnist Dave Barry.

* In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ( 29 June 2006 ) the US Supreme Court did not rule on the subject of unlawful combatant status but did reaffirm that the US is bound by the Geneva Conventions.

On 29 June 2006, the US Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that the military commissions were illegal under United States law and the Geneva Conventions.

On 29 June 2006, in the case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the US Supreme Court ruled that the military tribunals were illegal under United States law and the Geneva Conventions.

Major Elizabeth Kubala, Spokesperson for the Office of Military Commissions, gives a press briefing. On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case " Hamdan v. Rumsfeld " Docket 05-194, with a 5-3 decision for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, effectively declaring that trying Guantanamo Bay detainees under the Guantanamo military commission ( known also as Military Tribunal ) was illegal under US law, including the Geneva Conventions.

He is a member of the Project for the New American Century ( PNAC ) and was one of the signers of the PNAC Letter sent to US President Bill Clinton dated January 26, 1998, advocating " the removal of Saddam Hussein ’ s regime from power " along with Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and 29 other notable Republicans.

On June 29, 2006, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that they had the minimal protection of Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions in that detainees must be housed and treated humanely.

On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that the military commissions ordered for Hamdan and other detainees violated the UCMJ and the Geneva Convention.

On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court delivered its opinion in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

Stafford Smith contributed to The Guardian on the U. S. Supreme Court's 29 June 2006 ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

* November 18, 2002: Rumsfeld states in a press briefing that the Office of Strategic Influence was closed down only in name, that the activities of the office still continue.

The L. A. Times reported that White had brief conversations with Rumsfeld in November and Powell in December, the focus of which were " a concern on their part for the impact that the bankruptcy of Enron may have had on my personal well-being.

In 2009, Ridge alleged in his book The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege ... and How We Can Be Safe Again that top aides to President Bush ( including defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and attorney general John Ashcroft ) pressured him to raise the alert level on the eve of the November 2004 presidential election.

On November 7, 2005 the US Supreme Court announced that they would be reviewing Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

In November 2001, Bush asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to begin developing a plan for war.

The next day on November 8, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned.

Rumsfeld, who had endured several calls for his resignation but had won what many thought was an assurance of his job security as recently as November 1 by Bush's voiced confidence in his job performance, served until the confirmation of his successor, whom Bush nominated that day to be former CIA Director Robert Gates.

U. S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned on November 8 in the immediate aftermath of the elections, to be replaced by Robert Gates, whose term will begin on December 18.

According to a report by The New York Times on December 2, Rumsfeld wrote a classified dated November 6 that also said current U. S. strategy in Iraq is not working and requires major adjustments.

On November 8, 2006, a day after the U. S. midterm elections, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resigned following numerous calls for his resignation from the military leadership and general public pressure.

In November 2006, human rights attorney Wolfgang Kaleck filed a high profile criminal complaint at the German Federal Attorney General ( Generalbundesanwalt ) against Donald Rumsfeld and several other US officials and officers including Thomas Pappas for their alleged involvement in human rights violations at the Abu Ghraib prison.

According to an op-ed in the November 14, 2005 New York Times by M. Gregg Bloche and Jonathan H. Marks, two lawyers with no first-hand knowledge of SERE, " General Hill had sent this list -- which included prolonged isolation and sleep deprivation, stress positions, physical assault and the exploitation of detainees ' phobias -- to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who approved most of the tactics in December 2002.

* November 4, 1975: Ford replaces several Nixon cabinet members in the " Halloween Massacre ", engineered by Ford aide Donald Rumsfeld.

On November 14, 2006 human rights attorney Wolfgang Kaleck filed a high profile criminal complaint at the German Federal Attorney General ( Generalbundesanwalt ) against Donald Rumsfeld and several senior US officials including Barbara Fast for their alleged involvement in human rights violations at the Abu Ghraib prison.

* On the November 11, 2006 episode of Saturday Night Live, one skit parodied a Donald Rumsfeld interview with him being moved out of his office.