The U.K. House of Lords decided yesterday that evidence obtained from a prisoner by the use of torture cannot be used in a court case against that person. There are several terrorist cases working there way through the British legal system, and although no one suggests that torture has been used against any of the […]

Not to belabor the point but now the top U.N. human rights official has criticized the U.S. for its alleged torture of prisoners. The Washington Post has this report: U.N. Official Faults U.S. Detentions. From the article you can see that John Bolton is living all the way down to my very low expectations of […]

So just why is it that the U.S. has fewer friends than before. Condi Rice’s waffling provides a clue. According top the New York Times she clarified the picture on the American torture scandal: Rice Clarifies U.S. Interrogation Policy. But I come away from this article, and from her speech, more than convinced that the […]