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NCRI – In an interview aired on CNN on Thursday, former CIA Director James Woolsey said, \u201cWe have tacked so much toward accommodating verbally, and not criticizing at all, not only Egypt and Bahrain, but Iran.\u201d<\/p>\nNCRI – In an interview aired on CNN on Thursday, former CIA Director James Woolsey said, \u201cWe have tacked so much toward accommodating verbally, and not criticizing at all, not only Egypt and Bahrain, but Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added the US should \u201cnot necessarily siding directly with the protesters — don’t want to look like you’re controlling them — but certainly criticizing\u201d the regimes.<\/p>\n
He also mentioned abhorrent human rights abuses committed by the regime against protestors, pointing out rape of female activists before execution.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s about as hideous as you can get. We never say a word about these sorts of things,\u201d he said according to a transcript on CNN\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NCRI – In an interview aired on CNN on Thursday, former CIA Director James Woolsey said, “We have tacked so much toward accommodating verbally, and not criticizing at all, not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[175],"class_list":{"0":"post-9920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-human-rights","7":"tag-updated"},"yoast_head":"\n