Mad Social Scientist

A reader has pointed out that hiding prisoners from the Red Cross is specifically prohibited by the Geneva Conventions, which would make Tenet, Rumsfield, Evans, Abizaid, and Sanchez criminals according to American law. I have little faith though that the law still applies to the Bush admin, if it ever did. (Didn't the Republicans used to make a big deal about the rule of law? And didn't they accuse Saddam of violating the Geneva Conventions by putting POWs on TV?)

Michael Froomkin has some scary speculation on what these latest revelations portend.