Salon’s Mark Benjamin, a former colleague who has been all over the Abu Ghraib story for years, gets a rather categorical denial from the Defense Department about the Daily Telegraph story last week, which alleged with minimal and apparently misconstrued evidence that the Pentagon has unreleased rape photos in its archives which President Obama will [...]
Proving, once again, that politics tend to be personal. However, he does not back a federal law allowing it. (H/T our friends at C-SPAN)
UPDATE: Qorvis Communications, which represents the Saudi Government in the United States, emailed reporters Monday night with an statement saying the announcement of restrictions, which was sent from the State Department, is incorrect. The Qorvis email says that the Saudi Ambassador has said journalists can get visas and will be free to go wherever they [...]
There’s a fair amount of twitching going on in the Middle East this week in advance of Barack Obama’s address to the Islamic world in Cairo on Thursday. Much of it has to do with the expectation that Obama will put some pressure on the Israelis to stop the expansion of illegal settlements on Palestinian [...]
