{"id":667,"date":"2008-05-22T12:53:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T17:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=667"},"modified":"2008-05-22T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T17:53:47","slug":"news-and-analysis-52208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/22\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A NY Times editorial demands a full congressional inquiry over why the concerns from FBI agents and career DoJ officials about torture did not register with the White House\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/22\/opinion\/22thu1.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">What the F.B.I. Agents Saw<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/21\/AR2008052102668_pf.html\">Interrogation Tactics Were Challenged at White House<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6just as former detainee Mura Kurnaz tells of his prolonged torture detention at Gitmo, even after being cleared by interrogators:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0522\/p01s06-woeu.htm\">Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo Ex-Detainee Tells Congress of Abuse<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Bush administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hamfisted occupation of Iraq leads to another 8 Iraqi civilian deaths\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7414155.stm\">US Strike &#8216;Kills Iraqi Civilians&#8217;<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6meanwhile Iraq theater commander Gen. Petraeus urges a diplomatic solution to Iran before taking over US Central Command\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/21\/AR2008052103007.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">Petraeus: Diplomacy, Not Force, With Iran<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and Gareth Porter questions the Iranian-arms rationale for war by reviewing the (lack of) evidence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/porter\/?articleid=12883\">Where Are Those Iranian Weapons in Iraq?<\/a> (Inter Press Service\/Antiwar.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both Pakistan and Israel ignore the Bush administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s militant policy advice, choosing negotiations with adversaries instead:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/news\/?id=179480\">Pakistan Signs Peace Pact With Militants In Swat<\/a> (Reuters\/Wiredispatch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/22\/washington\/22assess.html?ref=world\">Advice From White House Is Not Always Followed<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US military assassination of a Somali militant leads to more, not less violence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0521\/p99s01-duts.html\">Somalia Violence Flares in the Wake of U.S. Airstrike<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NY Times editorial demands a full congressional inquiry over why the concerns from FBI agents and career DoJ officials about torture did not register with the White House\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 What the F.B.I. Agents Saw (New York Times) Interrogation Tactics Were Challenged at White House (Washington Post) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6just as former detainee Mura Kurnaz tells of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}