Posts Tagged ‘international law’

WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS

December 2, 2007

And kidnapping the ones we don’t
Readers of the UK’s Sunday Times were greeted this morning by the following headline: US says it has right to kidnap British citizens. Unfortunately, that headline isn’t sensationalistic in the least, it’s merely accurate.

ALL LAWFUL AID AND PROTECTION

November 5, 2007

Waterboarding made easy
The official language inside a U.S. passport that no one bothers to read includes a request from the Secretary to State to “all whom it may concern” to “give all lawful aid and protection” to the passport’s holder. Turns out, that in the Bush era, the second “all” in the sentence might be [...]

 

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