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...meantime, the U.S. government's insistence on enforcing its laws on foreign soil doesn't sit well with the Swiss. "The U.S. seems to prefer the role of an increasingly obnoxious tyrant," says Andy Sundberg, a retired businessman and founder of the Geneva-based American Citizens Abroad, an advocacy group for expatriate U.S. citizens. "It is obsessed with humiliating this small country, forcing it to betray the principles of its own constitution...
...primary impact of the activities of foreign-based insurgent groups inside Iran, of course, and whatever backing they receive from abroad, has been to render the legitimate reform movement more vulnerable to being attacked as part of a security threat to the Islamic Republic. After all, it would be a lot harder to paint a crackdown as directed against an "external threat" if there was no external threat...
...details and specific target of the program have yet to be made public. The New York Times, citing unnamed officials, says that the CIA had plotted since 2001 to find and kill al-Qaeda leaders abroad. Two former CIA officials tell TIME there's another, somewhat less dramatic, possibility: a plan to conduct domestic surveillance. Spying on Americans is outside the CIA's purview and would be highly controversial - good enough reason for Cheney to want it kept under wraps. (Check out the seven clues to understanding Dick Cheney...
...ballots cast in the country's disputed June 12 election. Tehran has warned that it won't tolerate further protests; the harsh government crackdown has killed as many as 20 people and caused Iran's worst unrest since the 1979 Islamic revolution. The formal results were met with skepticism abroad. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. has not decided whether to recognize Ahmadinejad's victory, noting that the protests have underscored the theocracy's "credibility gap" with its own people...
...countries got addicted to selling to American consumers and poured capital into the U.S. to keep the buying going. These inflows kept the dollar strong, making life tough for U.S. exporters; they also saddled Americans with the unsustainable debt loads that led to the financial crisis. Now no one abroad is willing to lend to deadbeat American households, and the U.S. government has temporarily taken over as the world's chief borrower and spender. But as we've just learned from the example of the American consumer, one can't borrow and spend forever...