How will the promise of change play out in the realm of foreign policy?
The Obama administration has released four internal CIA memos detailing interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects during the Bush years, CNN reports.
The president pledged to work to ensure the actions described in the memos “never take place again.”
Top CIA officials argued against the release of the more “graphic details” of the memos, the Wall Street [...]
Tehran said Wednesday it was putting together a proposal to break the impasse between Iran and the U.S. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad said his nation “may forget the past and start a new era,” the Star-Tribune reports.
Yet there is speculation that Ahmedinajed’s rhetoric is meant to win support for the June presidential [...]
In a meeting with U.S. mideast envoy George Mitchell, Israeli President Shimon Peres called plans to strike Iran “nonsense,” the Jerusalem Post reports.
Peres was quoted Sunday saying, “we’ll strike him,” if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad refused to back down from his nuclear ambitions.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that an Israeli strike on Iran [...]