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...Rice's stop in Romania, however, failed to dispel criticism from other quarters. She is under fire over a series of reports that the CIA established clandestine bases on European soil to imprison suspected terrorists for questioning, and transported those detainees through European airports. Rice's declaration-in what some see as a departure for U.S. policy-that U.S. treaty obligations prohibiting cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment extended to U.S. personnel "wherever they are" helped quiet some of those concerns. So, too, did her allowance, unusual for a Bush Administration member, that the U.S. may have made mistakes...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Europe this week looks set to be dominated by the furor over allegations about CIA activities on European soil in relation to terror suspects. The issue has been the focus of a mounting clamor for answers in the weeks since the Washington Post first alleged that the CIA may have maintained secret prisons in Eastern Europe, culminating in a formal request by the European Union for an explanation. But sources tell TIME that Secretary Rice plans to come out swinging, shifting the focus back to the responsibilities of Europe?s governments...
...You’re saying, if I hear you correctly, that an agency like INS, assuming they are arbitrary and capricious and even cruel, that the courts would have no jurisdiction because the conduct did not occur on U.S. soil?” the presiding judge, Sterling Johnson Jr., asked the government lawyer...
...flag that the most notorious terrorists ever to come from U.S. soil, the Ku Klux Klan, waved to frighten African Americans,” Sevetri M. Wilson, an LSU sophomore who is black, says...
...people know "we're here and we belong. It lifts the spirits of Aboriginal people," says Estens. About 100 towns have requested the AES, which is itself still being fitted out and road-tested, to set up camp. As Farmer Estens has learnt, sustainable progress needs the right soil and climate, clever management and a little luck...