Are there specific violations of human rights that stand out as being of particular concern?
What I think stands out is the holding of people without access to lawyers and the secrecy surrounding it. You see that in Pakistan, where people just disappear for some time. Sometimes they don’t come back; sometimes they do. You see that in other countries, where people are just removed and because they don’t have access and because of the secrecy around it, they are exposed to torture. Governments deny that they torture, but if you hold people incommunicado and if you close off access to the outside world and if you expose people to simply their interrogators, they become very vulnerable. There are too many stories and too much credible evidence that torture is being practiced for it to just be rejected out of hand. If you found yourself face to face with U.S. military commanders who approve the measures you’re talking about, what advice would you give?It would be presumptuous for me to enter into how to deal with the threat of terrorism. What I do know is that measures that are unj
