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August 9, 2010

Ex-US Cabinet Official Detained at Israeli Airport
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A former cabinet official in the Clinton administration has revealed she
was detained and interrogated for almost three hours at an Israeli
airport last month. Donna Shalala served as Health and Human Services
Secretary under President Clinton and is currently the president of the
University of Miami. Shalala was apparently detained because she is of
Lebanese descent. She was in Israel as part of a delegation of US
university presidents organized by the American Jewish Congress.



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