Following Revelations of an Unauthorized CIA Search of Senate Computers, Durbin Calls on CIA to Support Declassification of Report on Detention and Interrogation Program Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2014.  In a strongly worded letter to CIA Director John Brennan, Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) today called on the CIA to[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2014.  Eighty-three U.S. Senators wrote President Obama to outline core principles they believe should define any final agreement with Iran on its nuclear weapon program. The letter was spearheaded by Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Kelly[Read More…]

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–18 March 2014 – As the Syrian war enters a fourth year, the harrowing violence shows no signs of subsiding – the fighting has driven some nine million civilians from their homes and has reduced many of those who remain to scavenging – said the head of a United Nations-appointed[Read More…]

BELGIUM–(ENEWSPF)–18 Mar. 2014.  The following statement is attributed to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen: I condemn President Putin’s announcement of new laws incorporating Crimea into the Russian Federation. Russia has disregarded all calls to step back into line with international law and continues down the dangerous path. Russia  continues[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2014.  The NSA is recording all of the phone calls in an unnamed foreign country, and the agency planned to expand the program to other countries, according to a story today by The Washington Post. The conversations, which are available for playback for at least a month,[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2014. This week marks the three-year anniversary of the Syrian revolution. For three years, Bashar al-Assad has refused to heed the call of the Syrian people to step aside. He has directed a war against his own people and created a humanitarian catastrophe in order to hold[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2014. Index for Today’s Briefing SYRIA Closure of Syrian Embassy in the United States Status of Syrian Mission to the United Nations Treatment of Syrian Diplomats in the United States / Harassment of U.S. Diplomats in Syria Legal Status of Syrian Diplomats in the United States MALAYSIA[Read More…]

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—March 18, 2014. The U.S. Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to the risks of traveling to Egypt due to continuing political and social unrest.  This Travel Alert supersedes the Travel Alert issued on February 21, 2014, and will expire on June 18, 2014.   Based on an assessment[Read More…]