quelle surprise...
Who'd have thought the International Committee of Jurists, headed by Mary Robinson (former President of Eire and UN Human Rights Commissioner), would conclude that international law as a whole, and judicial protection of liberties within individual countries in particular, has suffered as a result of the 'war on terror'?
All the more shocking, then, that this sort of news should come out today, rather than any other day in the past few days since the incident occurred.
I mean, we couldn't possibly have such a high-level report - which states in passing that countries that have "poor human rights records" use the 28-day detention (and American practices of e.g. waterboarding) to "justify their own abusive policies" - making the headlines, could we?
All the more shocking, then, that this sort of news should come out today, rather than any other day in the past few days since the incident occurred.
I mean, we couldn't possibly have such a high-level report - which states in passing that countries that have "poor human rights records" use the 28-day detention (and American practices of e.g. waterboarding) to "justify their own abusive policies" - making the headlines, could we?