Summary
The new president should shut all such detention centres definitively, promise that any detained terrorism suspect will be immediately acknowledged, allowed access to the courts and granted visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross, and ratify the Convention against Enforced Disappearances to prohibit such abusive detention in future. Ideally working with Congress, he should push for the establishment of a high-level, bipartisan, professionally staffed independent commission, modelled after the September 11 Commission, to detail what US practices violated international human rights law, who authorised them, why they were allowed, and what steps should be taken to ensure that they are never permitted again.
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Ending Lapse Into Lawlessness
rEVERSING THE ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS MUST be a first priority for the new president. Washington's prominence has made the United States a model for dictators seeking a cheap excuse to justify their own repressive measures. And, since no government can effectively promote human rights that it flouts, a lawful approach to fighting terrorism is essential if the human rights movement is to regain the US as even an occasional ally.
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