Tom Malinowski
Tom Malinowski
Tomasz P. Malinowski is a U.S. diplomat and the current Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor...
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It's pathetic that they're still shuttling cash to this dictatorship after it has violated every commitment it made to the United States.
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The administration is setting a dangerous example for the world when it claims that spy agencies are above the law.
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The administration demanded that soldiers extract information from detainees without telling them what was allowed and what was forbidden. Yet when abuses inevitably followed, the leadership blamed the soldiers in the field instead of taking responsibility.
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They've never before explicitly asserted that they need the authority to treat prisoners inhumanely. We can't think of any country in the world that has.
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There's a lot of public pressure to retain the language intact. At the same time, there's pressure from the vice president's office to modify it.
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It is illogical for companies to say they are expanding the boundaries of freedom in China if they strip their product of the very qualities that make it a force for greater freedom. These companies must protect the integrity of the product they are providing, or that product will no longer be the Internet as we know it, and will no longer have the impact on society we all wish to see.
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It's not like these people were once considered to be a threat and now are not. These people need to be released, either in another country or the U.S. They're America's responsibility.
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The cellophane is a modern addition to a technique that had its origins in the Spanish Inquisition.
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It doesn't fix the problem that there isn't a single clear standard consistent with the law and our values, ... Even if all these documents end up establishing appropriate standards, we need to remember that what the secretary of defense does today he can undo tomorrow.