Sort of gives a new meaning to "enduring" freedom, when prisoners picked up in the Afghanistan conflict by dubious methods (such as the ones Kevin Drum highlights yesterday) are kept imprisoned without trial in inhumane conditions in a quasi-country not under the jurisdiction of any laws other than the Bush administration's made-up on the spot "laws of war."
This morning the ferocious attack dog Radio 4 presenter John Humphrys interviewed Pierre-Richard Prosper, the former 'US Ambassador at Large for War.' (Anyone know how to make a permanent link to the interview? Meanwhile, go here and click on the Saturday 18 February 0810 interview.)
The ambassador tried to make a case that as long as America was at war these "laws of war" superceded any other international (or national, apparently) laws. Humphyrs was almost speechless.
But not quite.
Can we have some outrage in the States over this please?
(Prosper, btw, according to Wikipedia is running for California Attorney General. Don't vote for him.)
