Comments on: Executive Accountability Loophole

By: Henry Neufeld

Henry Neufeld — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:42:20 +0000

Just so. This ties in to my more recent post The Potential of Secrecy without Accountability, though that case is on an American citizen, and it is not nearly as definite that he is in the right. The problem is that secrecy is being used to prevent us from discovering the truth. When this sort of thing happened in communist countries, or happens today in countries of which we don't approve (we=U.S.), we protest. The log is definitely in our eye, and the direction is dangerous.

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:26:10 +0000

From Condoleezza Rice’s words in Moscow, as reported by the BBC:

“I think that there is too much concentration of power in the Kremlin. Everybody has doubts about the full independence of the judiciary.”

She added: “I am quite confident that your goal is to build institutions that are indigenous to Russia… but that are also respectful of what we all know to be universal values.”

Those values included “the rights of individuals to liberty…, the right to assembly, the right to not have to deal with the arbitrary power of the state”, Ms Rice said.

Matthew 7:3-5

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:29:27 +0000

Indeed, as you said here, you look more and more like a terrorist state. I hope Angela Merkel has the courage of her convictions and puts the very highest level of diplomatic pressure on the USA to do the right thing by this German citizen. The amazing thing is that the government can settle this by paying a mere $75,000, without even having to admit anything if they don't want to, and yet they are prepared to risk their international credibility, in Europe as well as the Arab world, for this.