WHO'S DEMANDING WHAT? – AT 10:25 A.M. ET:  Have you noticed that the UN, wallowing in corruption and dishonesty, has become more aggressive since our citizen-of-the-world president took office?  Now these "international civil servants" reach the height of arrogance.  From London's Telegraph:

The United Nations has called for the US to investigate whether its officials knew about alleged torture and other ill-treatment of detainees held by Iraqi security forces.

Hey, guy, how about asking Iraq?

Manfred Nowak, the UN's special rapporteur on torture, told the BBC the US President Barack Obama had an "obligation" to carry out an independent and objective investigation.

I'm sure he'll be glad to.  But how about imposing some "obligations" on dictatorships.  Too much trouble? 

"There is an obligation to investigate whenever there are credible allegations torture has happened – and these allegations are more than credible – and then it is up to the courts," he said.

How does he know they're more than credible? 

"It is then up to the courts on the one hand to bring the perpetrators to justice and also on the other hand to provide the victims with adequate reparation for the harm they have suffered."

Again, how about sending the same letter to dictators.

It follows the release of almost 400,000 secret US military logs, by the Wikileaks website, which suggest US commanders ignored evidence of torture by the Iraqi authorities.

COMMENT:  That leak, big news today, is disgraceful.  And equally disgraceful is the fact that we let it happen, and have not prosecuted anyone.

Document dumps like this often produce a number of "secret" reports that really aren't secret, but are overclassified, a common practice in government.  We wonder how this UN's "special rapporteur on torture" can be so sure that the documents are accurate.  But when you have nothing much to do...

October 23, 2010