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Latest News Release Interviews AvailableBiden Advisor an Apologist for Torture, an Architect of Kill Lists July 8, 2020JEFFREY KAYE, jeffkaye at sbcglobal.net, @jeff_kayeAuthor of Cover-up at Guantanamo, Kaye said today: According to former Obama senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, putative Democratic Party candidate for president Joe Biden picked a superstar when he appointed ex-CIA Deputy Director and White House attorney Avril Haines to head his national security and foreign policy team. No matter how much Obama/Biden administration officials praise her, Avril Haines’ role always seems to be making the unpalatable palatable, whether it s prettifying companies like [data mining] contractor Palantir, agencies like the CIA, policies like targeted killing, or war criminals like current CIA chief,  Bloody Gina Haspel. During Haspel s contentious Senate confirmation, the Trump administration turned to Haines to legitimate Haspel, whose crimes included helping destroy CIA torture tapes, as well as participating in an unspecified management role at more than one CIA black site. Haines called Haspel intelligent, compassionate, and fair. But that wasn t all that Avril Haines has done for the CIA. She also participated in an accountability board inquiry into CIA interference in the Senate investigation of CIA torture. She, of course, found no wrong-doing by the CIA. Haines claims to find torture immoral, yet she supports known torture official Haspel. Additionally, she was a White House lawyer when the UN Committee on Torture condemned the Obama-supported Army Field Manual on interrogations for using methods of interrogation, including sleep deprivation and sensory deprivation, that can cause psychotic reactions in prisoners, raising serious concerns of U.S. current use of torture. Did Haines agree with the Obama administration s decision to defend the condemned techniques? We don t know, as many questions haven t been asked in the rush to anoint her a superstar appointment. One anonymous progressive leader told The Daily Beast, Being where any decent person should be on a few issues doesn’t cancel out an endorsement of torturers. It is sad that in 2020 the leader of a progressive nonprofit that works on national security issues would fear professional reprisal for daring to criticize Biden s choice! The problems with Haines don t stop with her shady connections to torture. It s known that Avril Haines was Obama’s CIA deputy director. But most of the public doesn t know she was also Obama’s direct advisor in constructing his targeted assassination Kill List policy. Haines supposedly made Obama s drone assassination program more transparent and less liable to kill innocents. But a 2016 ACLU examination of the policy Haines helped construct concluded it fell far short of the standards for transparency and accountability needed to ensure that the government’s targeted killing program is lawful under domestic and international law. In particular, the Haines-influenced policy relied on looser, law-of-war standards that govern conduct in war, rather than the more protective rules that apply under international human rights law. Avril Haines is presented as a humane, intelligent and compassionate alternative to the typical white male elite that run the CIA and other such agencies. But her record is clear. She is an apologist for torture operations. She helped create kill lists for the CIA and U.S. Special Forces. She is not an alternative to the barbarism of the Trump administration, but a dire predictor of Biden s obeisance as president to an out-of-control national security establishment. Blog PostsStop Tightening the Thumb Screws, A Humanitarian MessageMarch 17, 2020 by journalist U.S. sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the U.S. “maximum pressure” policy severely undermines Iranian efforts to cope with the ravages of COVID-19, causing hardship and tragedy while contributing to the global spread of the pandemic. On March 12, 2020, Iran’s Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif urged member states of the UN to end the United States’ unconscionable and lethal economic warfare.[more]Timeline: How DNC Manipulated 2016 Presidential Race February 13, 2020 by journalist April 25, 2017: In class action lawsuit alleging DNC fraud, DNC attorney argues the party has the right to ignore primary voters: “The party has the freedom of association to decide how it’s gonna select its representatives to the convention and to the state party. Even to define what constitutes evenhandedness and impartiality really would already drag the court well into a political question and a question of how the party runs its own affairs. The party could have favored a candidate. I’ll put it that way... We could have voluntarily decided that, ‘Look, we’re gonna go into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.’” (See Newsweek: "Was the Election Rigged Against Bernie Sanders? Dnc Lawsuit Demands Repayment for Campaign Donors.")[more]Francis A. Boyle in Defense of Kings Bay Plowshare 7 ActivistsOctober 18, 2019 by journalist It was my conclusion in June 25, 2018, for the reasons set out at length in that document, that the existence, threat or use of any of the Trident thermonuclear weapons at Kings Bay is absolutely illegal and criminal under the laws of the United States and international law...I repeat my opinion that the charges against these Defendants should be dismissed. The Court must recognize that the possession, preparation for use, threat of use or use of Trident nuclear weapons at Kings Bay is illegal and criminal. The non-violent, symbolic disarmament actions by Defendants in this matter are in full compliance with the laws, treaties and principles of U.S. and international law and served a lawful purpose: preventing the ongoing commission of genocidal international and U.S. domestic crimes.[more]Affidavit by Daniel Ellsberg for Plowshare Activists Being Allowed a Defense of NecessityOctober 15, 2019 by journalist In 1971 I gave the U.S. Senate, the New York Times and the Washington Post copies of what have come to be known as The Pentagon Papers. I was arrested on twelve felony counts. My trial was dismissed because of government misconduct which figured in the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon...These considerations bear on two other elements of the necessity defense, the "lack of legal alternatives" and the "imminence" of the harms to be averted. Again, I speak from my own experience, but not only mine, in saying that it is the perceived insufficiency of other means, by themselves not their unavailability or irrelevance that impels one to add, in some circumstances, tactics that risk arrest to a program of social action. And the urgency of such means reflects the prolonged time required to mobilize political efforts perhaps measured in months or years to avert deaths and injuries that will not be averted at all without campaigns that include these dramatic elements.[more]After appearing on an IPA press release, Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, was interviewed by Democracy Now! today to discuss the significance surrounding Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's announcement of an unconditional ceasefire with the Taliban.[more]ExposeFacts Panel Discussion on War, Journalism and Whistleblowers on Flashpoints March 23, 2018Thomas Drake, Katharine Gun, and other key 21st century whistle blowers featured in a special panel discussion sponsored last week by the Institute for Public Accuracy, on the radio program "Flashpoints," 15 years after Katherine Gun blew the whistle on U.S. dirty tricks to try influence the UN on the invasion of Iraq.[more]Pat Elder on JROTC and the NRA in U.S. Schools on Democracy Now!February 21, 2018After appearing on an IPA news release, Pat Elder, author of Military Recruiting in the United States and director of National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy, @studentprivacy (studentprivacy.org) was interviewed this morning on Democracy Now! He spoke about the role of JROTC and the NRA in U.S. Schools, including the one that trained the Parkland Shooter, Nikolas Cruz.[more]From the NYT: Robert Parry, Investigative Reporter and Founder of ConsortiumNews, Dies at 68February 1, 2018Robert Parry, a tenacious investigative reporter and author who exposed details of the Reagan administration’s secret support for Nicaraguan rebels in the 1980s, died on Saturday in Arlington, Va. He was 68.[more] Recent News ReleasesMount Rushmore: Tip of IcebergJuly 6, 2020"Mount Rushmore is named after a gold prospector who had illegally entered into Lakota treaty territory to begin prospecting. ... The Black Hills [where Mount Rushmore is located] were also a place of origin and a place of cultural and spiritual significance for over 50 Indigenous nations.[more]Trump and Barr Turn to Joint Terrorism Task Force to Crush ProtestsJuly 6, 2020It’s important to remember what actually happened with the Occupy Movement, a remarkable protest against inequality, corporate power, and the corrupt Wall Street banks whose recklessness had caused the 2008 financial crisis.[more]Epstein and Maxwell: One Nation Under Blackmail July 2, 2020Sexual blackmail by intelligence has a long history, in the U.S. and elsewhere, and Epstein and Maxwell were merely using that same playbook (on a grand scale) for the benefit of their sponsors.[more]Inconvenient Facts: U.S. Killed Russians in Syria and AfghanistanJuly 2, 2020Afghan rebels were killing Soviet soldiers, downing Soviet helicopter gunships, and inflicting deep wounds on the Soviet self-image. The CIA had done what it set out to do: to give the Soviets their Vietnam.[more]Israeli Colonial ExpansionJuly 1, 2020‘Israeli occupation’ is no longer an occupation as per international standards and definitions. It is merely a phase of the Zionist colonization of historic Palestine, a process that began over a 100 years ago, and carries on to this day.[more]

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