{"id":14788,"date":"2014-12-18T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T18:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=14788"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:16:29","slug":"neenan-oped-pardee-undergrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2014\/12\/18\/neenan-oped-pardee-undergrad\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergrad Neenan Publishes Op-Ed on CIA Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/12\/pov_hostages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/12\/pov_hostages-506x300.jpg\" alt=\"pov_hostages\" width=\"506\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14789 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/12\/pov_hostages-506x300.jpg 506w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/12\/pov_hostages.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Neenan, an undergraduate major in International Relations at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University<\/a>, writes that while the torture and enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA during the War on Terror were ineffective and morally wrong, releasing a Senate special report on the practices was a strategic blunder.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks came in a Dec. 18 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2014\/pov-recent-revelations-of-cia-torture-were-unnecessary\/\">POV article on <i>BU Today<\/i> titled &#8220;Recent Revelations of CIA Torture Were Unnecessary.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In her article, Neenan writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.) and her cronies are using their last vestige of power in the twilight of the Democrat\u2019s Senate majority to make a political move. Even former Democratic committee member Bob Kerry condemned the current committee\u2019s Democrats for partisanship. What they are doing is reckless, selfish, and obtuse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2014\/pov-recent-revelations-of-cia-torture-were-unnecessary\/\">the entire article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPOV\u201d is an opinion page that provides timely commentaries from students, faculty, and staff on a variety of issues: on-campus, local, state, national, or international.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Neenan, an undergraduate major in International Relations, said that a recent Senate report on CIA torture techniques was a strategic blunder. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8416],"tags":[9961,1583,8559,8503],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14788"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14851,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14788\/revisions\/14851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}