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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (475688)	4/27/2009 11:16:01 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573898

>> the UN Convention Against Torture doesn't apply to AQ because they're not signatories. I'm not an attorney -- and certainly know nothing about international law, so I don't know whether it does or not. I doubt you do either. There are certainly some such documents that do only apply to signatories. As a general rule, I would think no president would waive our sovereign rights on a unilateral basis, but I don't know what was or should have been done in this case. Are you a specialist in international law?