Fallen But Not Forgotten
5 Post-Election Achievements You Should Know About Posted by Kori Schulman on December 23, 2010 at 11:39 AM EST As the President said, it’s been the most productive post-election period we’ve seen in decades, capping off two of the most productive years in the history of Congress. Democrats and Republicans came together and made progress […]
Read More The White House BlogEurope By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER Published: December 23, 2010 A seven-year effort by the Central Intelligence Agency to hide its relationship with a Swiss family who once acted as moles inside the world’s most successful atomic black market hit a turning point on Thursday when a Swiss magistrate recommended charging the men with […]
Read More C.I.A. Secrets Could Surface in Swiss Nuclear Case (NY Times)New York Times repost. Over the last three presidential administrations, the United States government has granted nearly 10,000 special licenses allowing almost 4,000 American companies to enter into transactions that would otherwise be prohibited by trade embargoes and sanctions rules. Most of the licenses were issued under a broadly defined “humanitarian” exemption mandated by Congress […]
Read More Companies With Permission to Bypass Sanctions (NYT)U.S. Approved Business With Blacklisted Nations By JO BECKER Published: December 23, 2010 Despite sanctions and trade embargoes, over the past decade the United States government has allowed American companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries blacklisted as state sponsors of terrorism, an examination by The New York Times […]
Read More U.S. Approved Business With Blacklisted NationsVolume 4 Issue 48 December 23, 2010 Hey Steven, You good people lucked out! Queenie, toiling away at Turner Central (in commiseration with those North Pole elves everybody’s always talkin’ about), is bringing you the gift of snark today — just in time for Festivus. It’s better than giving you books, right? If you’re at work: […]
Read More The Turner Report – Gossip from the Hill
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