DNI Confirmation Hearing: Blair’s East Timor Record ‘Flat Wrong’
By Spencer Ackerman |
01.22.09 | 11:12 am
A big obstacle to retired Adm. Dennis Blair’s confirmation as director of national intelligence concerns his interactions with the Indonesian government as U.S. Pacific Command chief, when it came to East Timorese independence from Indonesia in 2000. Blair defended himself in an interaction with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) saying that More…
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