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...official who worked with Joseph at the NSC describes him less charitably as "an ideologue." But it is his version of how those 16 words made it into the State of the Union that some Republican members of the House and Senate intelligence committees are eager to obtain under oath. That has become especially interesting now that Tenet reportedly acknowledged when he testified last week before the Senate Intelligence Committee that the questionable line in the text had not been brought to his attention. The White House, however, doesn't like the idea of Joseph's heading to the Hill...
...Even if there were no slippery slope, there is a deeply important principle at stake: doctors are healers, not killers. You cannot annihilate the subject you are supposedly serving - it is not just a philosophical absurdity, it constitutes the most fundamental violation of the Hippocratic oath. You are not permitted to do any harm to the patient, let alone the ultimate harm...
...which routinely reviews books written by former employees (and feels no great love for Baer, whose best seller, See No Evil, excoriated the agency), says the author has violated his secrecy oath by revealing such pieces of information as the alleged attempt by the Saudi Interior Minister to have a prominent dissident assassinated...
Even if there were no slippery slope, there is a deeply important principle at stake: doctors are healers, not killers. You cannot annihilate the subject you are supposedly serving--it is not just a philosophical absurdity, it constitutes the most fundamental violation of the Hippocratic oath. You are not permitted to do any harm to the patient, let alone the ultimate harm...
...Wavering Peace DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO New doubts were cast on the peace process when rebel ministers in the new power-sharing administration refused to swear an oath of loyalty to President Joseph Kabila at a ceremony in Kinshasa, and fresh fighting broke out in the eastern Ituri region. Earlier, the leaders of two main rebel groups were sworn in as Vice Presidents, raising hopes that the transitional government, set up under a peace deal agreed in April, might bring a permanent end to the five-year civil war. However, on Friday the rebels said they would recognize Kabila only...