While she’s in the neighborhood of human rights, and busy lambasting Putin for torture, and dubious interrogation tactics in Chechnya, Rice might want to revisit Guantanamo Bay, clandestine holding cells, as well as take a long, hard look at “extraordinary rendition.” What would be really extraordinary is if the secretary of state can explain how a country that claims to hold the moral high ground has all but shredded the Magna Carta, and may well be remembered as much for Abu Ghraib as the Statue of Liberty.
October 16, 2007 5:25 AM