shadows in action

Lone Star Justice - Alberto Gonzales' strange views of international law. By Alan Berlow
|Where Gonzales' analysis of the Geneva Conventions set out to rationalize torture of al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners, the president's top attorney had similarly pragmatic considerations in mind back when it came to dodging the Vienna Convention. Gonzales favored ignoring the latter because he knew that Texas police had probably violated the treaty's reporting requirement in hundreds if not thousands of arrests...|