The Center for Security Policy today expressed incredulity that despite mounting congressional and press criticism concerning current, deficient U.S. export control policies the White House is allowing still more radical dismantling of the existing multilateral technology security regime to proceed apace.
Talks between Greece and its private creditors were still under way when The Economist went to press, but the risks of a disorderly default are mounting.
Organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are mounting a vituperative campaign against the Pipes nomination, replete with press releases, phone banks and letters to Committee members and other Senators.
The latest twist came on Monday when the editor of City Press - a newspaper that had published a photo of the offending picture and firmly refused to remove it despite mounting pressure - announced on a local radio station that she had changed her mind.