{"id":921669,"date":"2022-12-15T18:29:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T18:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=a1ae2cd1db93cbb5a3d211aadf15a939"},"modified":"2022-12-15T18:29:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T18:29:23","slug":"leahy-calls-for-expanding-human-rights-law-to-cover-us-intelligence-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/15\/leahy-calls-for-expanding-human-rights-law-to-cover-us-intelligence-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Leahy Calls for Expanding Human Rights Law to Cover US Intelligence Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story was originally published by ProPublica. For more than two decades, the U.S. military has been barred from providing training and equipment to foreign security forces that commit &ldquo;gross violations of internationally recognized human rights.&rdquo; The law, named for its author, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, applies to military assistance for foreign units funded through the Defense or State...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/leahy-calls-for-expanding-human-rights-law-to-cover-us-intelligence-agencies\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/leahy-calls-for-expanding-human-rights-law-to-cover-us-intelligence-agencies\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vermont senator says the agencies should be barred from providing training and equipment to human rights violators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,533,6,21499,4,50639,55371],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921670,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921669\/revisions\/921670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}