US Policies Criticized by UN Rights Watchdog
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, South African Navanethem Pillay. (Photo: AP)
Colum Lynch, The Washington Post: "The United Nations' top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try them in a court of law, and said officials who authorized the use of 'torture' must be held accountable." Full Story
Officers of Iran's Revolutionary Guard at a meeting with President Ahmadinejad earlier this year. (Photo: Rouholla Vahdati / ISNA / AP)
Protests of the June 12 presidential election are reportedly continuing in Iran, but U.S. intelligence agencies know little about what is happening on the ground due to a lack of staff in the country. Sipa via AP
Mary Louise Kelly, NPR: "Generations of Western spies have tried, and mostly failed, to decipher events in Iran. Martin Indyk was among them. Working for Australian intelligence 30 years ago, Indyk, who has since served as a US diplomat, regaled a recent gathering at the Brookings Institution with his efforts to crack Iran in 1979." More
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