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Time Magazine 29th July 2021 – Double Issue. Had He only a single stint as U.S Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld would likely be remembered as a wunderkind who, under President Gerald Ford in the 1970s, became the youngest man ever to run the Pentagon. But Rumsfeld, who died on June 30 at 88, is instead best known for his second go-round, as President George W. Bush’s defense chief, and for his role as the architect of the nation’s problem-plagued war on terrorism. Finding someone in Washington who’s indifferent about Rumsfeld’s legacy is a near impossibility. To a few, he’s a crafty bureaucratic knife fighter who spent four decades rising to the highest offices in government.
To everyone else, he’s an acerbic, argumentative leader who set the U.S. in motion toward unwinnable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan— wars that are only now, some 20 years later, beginning to come to an end After Pennsylvania’s supreme court on June 30 freed Bill Cosby from the state prison where he had been held since being convicted of sexual assault in 2018, the disgraced comedian was quick to offer himself as an exemplar of the problem of wrongful convictions. But the court’s decision to free him on a procedural matter included no findings of innocence. Time Magazine 29th July 2021 – Double Issue
Procedural claims are a powerful tool for people who are wrongfully convicted —but those people tend to be unable to afford the kind of legal team Cosby had, notes Samuel Gross, a co-founder of the National Registry of Exonerations. Cases like Cosby’s “are as similar to [other trials as] a high school football game and the Super Bowl. To everyone else, he’s an acerbic, argumentative leader who set the U.S. in motion toward unwinnable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan— wars that are only now, some 20 years later, beginning to come to an end After Pennsylvania’s supreme court on June 30 freed Bill Cosby from the state prison where he had been held since being convicted of sexual assault in 2018,
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