Obama honeymoon over?

[ratewhore]

Sorry, for a second there I thought the judge referred to the UK as 'a democracy'.

Must have misread...

[expat]

Times

Two senior British judges have expressed their anger and surprise that President Barack Obama's Government has put pressure on Britain to suppress evidence of torture in US custody
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In a withering ruling that condemned America for a lack of principles, the judges said: "We did not consider that a democracy governed by the rule of law would expect a court in another democracy to suppress a summary of the evidence contained in reports by its own officials . . . relevant to allegations of torture and cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment, politically embarrassing though it might be.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose....