Thursday, December 08, 2005
Getting Round the Law
Here's a few choice quotes from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in her defence of US Policy:-
For starters, all of her speech implies that everyone captured and renditioned (sp?) by the US is guilty of being a terrorist. Is that true, Ms Rice?
[And for for record, she still goes on about torture and how America doesn't do it, which is all completely irrelevent given their definition of torture].
We must track down terrorists who seek refuge in areas where governments cannot take effective action, including where the terrorists cannot in practice be reached by the ordinary processes of law. [the law is so inconvenient sometimes.]
The captured terrorists of the 21st Century do not fit easily into traditional systems of criminal or military justice, which were designed for different needs. [Why not?]
In some situations a terrorist suspect can be extradited according to traditional judicial procedures. But there have long been many other cases where, for some reason, the local government cannot detain or prosecute a suspect, and traditional extradition is not a good option. [Because then people would know about it.]
The United States does not use the airspace or the airports of any country for the purpose of transporting a detainee to a country where he or she will be tortured.['Will be' tortured? As opposed to 'may' be tortured? That's okay then. It's subtle wording like this that mean technically she's not lying, but the differencebetween the two is a massive gulf.]
For starters, all of her speech implies that everyone captured and renditioned (sp?) by the US is guilty of being a terrorist. Is that true, Ms Rice?
[And for for record, she still goes on about torture and how America doesn't do it, which is all completely irrelevent given their definition of torture].
