CBS News has learned that barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was ... basis for hanging hat." In other words, the ...

If you know nothing else about former Secretary of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld, who died last Wednesday at age 88, you should know this. At 9:37 a.m. on September 11, 2001, al-Qaida terrorists ...

Donald Rumsfeld’s passing Tuesday has unleashed a blizzard of over-the-top criticism of the controversial former secretary of State. The Atlantic dubbed him “the worst secretary of defense in ...

As Donald Rumsfeld might say, there are known knowns and known unknowns. And one known known is that the passage of time doesn't appear to have mellowed Rumsfeld. In an interview with NPR's Steve ...

Former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld died Tuesday. He was 88 years old. “It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of Donald Rumsfeld, an American statesman and ...

Washington — Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern U.S. military was soiled by ...

June 30 - Donald Rumsfeld, a forceful U.S. defense secretary who was the main architect of the Iraq war until President George W. Bush replaced him as the United States found itself bogged down ...

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld during a hearing on Capitol Hill in March 2004. (Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg) With the passing of Donald H. Rumsfeld, our country has lost a great leader who ...

WASHINGTON Donald Rumsfeld – controversial Defense Secretary and architect of the Iraq war – died Tuesday in Taos, New Mexico, days before his 89th birthday, his family confirmed Wednesday.