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...most, the measure may give the Justice Department new, if murky, grounds to enforce the long-standing ban on torture that some had argued applied only on U.S. soil. But, Hadley suggested, McCain's amendment to the Pentagon policy bill may end up making it more difficult to prosecute interrogators if they employ techniques green-lighted by government lawyers and thus can use "good-faith reliance on the advice of counsel" as a defense...
...military’s operations over the previous decades had left the Arsenal heavily contaminated with pollutants. At the time of the closure recommendation, the work to be done at the complex included cleaning the facilities and soil, decommissioning the remnants of a research reactor, and reclaiming portions of the Charles River...
...According to the EPA, the soil on the Arsenal’s premises and the nearby park were laden with “pesticides, PCBs, heavy metals, volatile organic compounds, and ‘poly-aromatic hydrocarbons’” like benzene and other carcinogens...
...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...
...parliamentary inquiry. Since the country aspires to join the European Union as early as 2007, and the existence of "dark bases" housing "ghost prisoners" would contravene European human rights standards, Romania may be forced to take a closer look at the activities of its U.S. ally on its soil-with more U.S. bases now slated to open and much of the EU uneasy about U.S. practices, the pressure on Romania for transparency is only going to increase...