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Secrecy, Torture & Human Rights: US War Crimes, European Complicity, and International Law
May 2010
Tom Reifer

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's role in defending torture and rendition under the Obama administration raises serious concerns about the ongoing failure of the US government to end its own practice of extreme human rights abuses throughout the world.

Secrecy, the Republic and the Supreme Court
May 2010
Tom Reifer

Elena Kagan's use of the state secrets privilege to dismiss the case of a German citizen, who was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA, should be a cause for major concern over her recent nomination by President Obama to the US Supreme Court.

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