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• International legal experts unveil index to measure how well nations follow rule of law. Plus: Robert Jay Lifton comments on U.S. use of torture
• Muslim sues over loss of security clearance
• US State Department releases annual report on human rights
• America adds a shameful chapter to the history of torture
• George ‘This country does not Torture’ Bush vetoes torture-ban law
• George Bush Will Veto Ban On Torture
• Waterboarding is legal, White House says
• Former Guantanamo prisoner asks U.S. to review its founding ideals
• CIA Chief: We Waterboarded
• Philip Agee, former CIA agent who became critic of US policy, dies in Cuba
• Victim’s sister hopes to make death penalty personal for senators
• Satanist case may close death row
• New Jersey Moves to End Its Death Penalty
• DNA could clear ‘Satanic’ triple murder teenagers
• American Bar Association calls for a nationwide freeze on executions
• Britain’s first Muslim minister detained at US airport
• Carter: U.S. has tortured detainees and Bush approved it
• Bush Defends Interrogations, Saying Methods Aren’t Torture
• Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
• U.S. is better off with Christian president, McCain says
• Former Guantanamo detainees accuse U.S. of faith-based humiliation
• Misgivings raised as U.S. prepares to speed death penalty appeals
• Guantanamo legal battle is resuming
• Activist arrested at L.A. church
• Seven-year-old Muslim boy stopped in US three times on suspicion of being a terrorist
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