Oh, That's Rich

Pressed on the subject of the Bush Administration’s private “torture” jet earlier this week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez insisted that the American is assured the human treatment of detainees turned over to foreign governments for interrogation, but was forced to concede that the US has no safeguard to ensure that prisoners are not tortured upon their transfer to these nations notoriously hostile to human rights. This brilliantly evasive position leaves the Bush Administration virtually blameless in the systematic network of torture they have funded around the world, which has facilitated the transfer of over 100 detainees to several nations where they are allegedly tortured. Furthermore, this policy stands as the latest in a series of tell-tale indications that the Bush Administration has no intention of allowing international human rights standards to interfere with intelligence gathering in its “War on Terror”. As the Bush Administration’s support for torture remains increasingly unchallenged in America, a dangerous precedent is being set on for future standards of international human rights, based on the American prioritization of individual life over international human standards of conduct, which has been largely unquestioned in the public discourse...More
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