The rule of law still exists in some parts of the world, less so in Obama’s government

By Steve Anderson

Unlike U.S. president Barack Obama, leaders in several European countries are taking their nations’ human rights laws and international treaty obligations seriously.

Investigations into CIA torture centers are going forward in Lithuania and Poland, Italy has prosecuted CIA torture enablers, and Great Britain is about to release crucial information detailing torture techniques signed off on by Bush-era criminals. These include former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Vice-President Dick Cheney, President George W. Bush himself, and a host of mid-level apparatchiks who wrote the legal memos giving cover of law to all the dirty work done in freedom’s name.