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Release of Senate Torture Report Insufficient, Say Rights Groups

From On December 10, 2014 · Leave a Comment

by Jim Lobe Tuesday’s release by the Senate Intelligence Committee of its long-awaited report on the torture by the CIA of detainees in the so-called “war on terror” does not go far enough, according to major U.S. human rights groups. While welcoming the report’s release, the subject of months of intensive and sometimes furious negotiations

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The CIA-SSCI Feud and US Capacity for Self-Reflection in the “War on Terror”

From On April 14, 2014 · Leave a Comment

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by Derek Davison

The CIA and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) have been embroiled for several weeks in a dispute over the declassification of a sweeping Senate report, the product of an investigation into the George W. Bush-era CIA’s so-called “enhanced interrogation” program. The SSCI’s chair, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), has accused the CIA of [...]

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Another Example of Why Congress Should Not Let the Bibi Dog Wag the U.S. Tail

From On January 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment

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by Jim Lobe

The front-page article by Jodi Rudoren about Israel’s “Castle Strategy” in Sunday’s New York Times offers yet one more example — and right in the opening paragraph — of why the Kirk-Menendez “Wag the Dog” Act of 2013 is so dangerous to the security of the United [...]

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Feinstein’s Denunciation of Kirk-Menendez Iran Act May Be Decisive…

From On January 15, 2014 · Leave a Comment

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by Jim Lobe

Tuesday’s floor speech by Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein could bury AIPAC’s hopes of winning passage of what I have called the Kirk-Menendez Wag the Dog Act of 2013…at least for the next month or so. The speech, which was remarkably comprehensive in rebutting [...]

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Bid for Sanctioning Iran's Central Bank Gaining Steam Among U.S. lawmakers

From On October 18, 2011 · 1 Comment

While well-known U.S. hawks and neoconservatives are pushing for military strikes against Iran in response to the alleged “Iranian plot”, the Obama administration has been attempting to rally support from other countries for further punitive measures against Iran, such as sanctioning its central bank, Bank Markazi. If implemented the U.S. move [...]

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