A dozen members of Congress led by Sen. Bernie Sanders sent a Tuesday letter demanding the Biden administration open an independent investigation into an Israeli attack on journalists, including U.S. citizen Dylan Collins, in Lebanon last year.

Collins, a Vermonter working for Agence France-Presse, was the only American in a group of reporters who endured Israeli tank fire on October 13, 2023, just days after the Hamas-led attack on Israel. He and five others were injured, and Lebanese Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed.

The journalists were covering cross-border fire between the Lebanese political and paramilitary group Hezbollah and Israeli forces—armed with diplomatic and weapons support from the Biden administration and Congress—during the early stages of a retaliatory assault on the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip for which Israel is now on trial for genocide.

“To date, Mr. Collins has received no explanation for the attack, and there have been no steps toward accountability,” the letter states, taking aim at Israel’s leader. “Given the inaction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the United States must open an independent investigation into this incident.”

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Remember when Biden said:

    No one is above the law

    He said that while actively breaking the Leahy law, and continues to do so.

    He won’t hold himself accountable, and sure as shit won’t hold Israel accountable for anything.

    Fuck man…

    He hasn’t really held anyone accountable for anything. He put Garland in charge of the DOJ because he thought it would piss Republicans off, not realizing Obama nominated him because he’s an ineffectual bipartisan and just to highlight how Republicans wouldn’t vote on any SC pick.

    Biden picking him as head of the DOJ has to be the stupidest thing Biden’s ever done, and it’s not a short list…

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      Biden doesn’t do anything to piss Republicans off, he bends over constantly to make everything bipartisan. And picking Garland was probably because he knew that he would play it “safe” and do nothing rather than have anyone be able to begin to say he was doing something political. Garland has been in such contrast to Barr who just shit all over the law like he had done in the past (and I wouldn’t doubt got a secret pardon before the end just in case he ever needs to play that card).

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    “We have investigated ourselves and Israel and found that we actually missed a few journalsts. We’ll do better next time.”