Lawmakers ask Library of Congress to retract Honduras report

By LESLEY CLARK - McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON-The chairmen of the House and Senate foreign relations committees are asking the Law Library of Congress to retract a report on the military-backed coup in Honduras that they charge is flawed and "has contributed to the political crisis that still wracks" the country.

The request, by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., has sparked cries of censorship from Republicans who say the Democrats don't like what the August report said: that the government of Honduras had the authority to remove President Manuel Zelaya from office.

Zelaya has been holed up at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa for several weeks, and high-ranking U.S. officials arrived Wednesday to try to broker a resolution.

Critics of the Obama administration - which condemned Zelaya's removal in June - have pointed to the report as evidence that the White House was wrong when it sided with most Latin American countries in calling for Zelaya to be returned. Read entire article