Letters to the Editor

America then and now It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating. Glenn Greenwald [2009-01-08]

• Sands on torture investigation outlook--fresh aire

  Phillipe Sands on the likelihood of torture investigation of Bush team--surprisingly upbeat (fresh aire yesterday):

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99061358

  based on:

  http://www.amazon.com/Torture-Team-Rumsfelds-Betrayal-American/dp/0230603904

  Sands (a professor of law at University College London, where he directs the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals), points out that Geneva will still apply regardless of what Obama, Bush, or the Congress does. Further, it is not an option, but an obligation, for signators to the Convention to uphold the law. Members of the current administration should be very careful about which countries they chose as destinations in the future.

  -- casual_observer
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